ANOTHER KIND OF KNOWING – on Arakawa and Gins
PANEL PRESENTATIONS in English w/ Japanese translation
Speakers: Don Byrd, Alan Prohm, Jondi Keane
At: AGxKANSAI 2022 4th Intl Conference on Arakawa and Gins
Online with registration and Live on 13.03. here: https://www2.kansai-u.ac.jp/agx2022/program/day3/round-table/
Arakawa and Madeline Gins – Focusing/Imaging Partnership; Reversible Destiny Office, NY – Nov 2006 Photo: Alan Prohm
PANEL
Abstract: The three members of the panel will discuss the work of Arakawa and Gins as the project of another kind of knowing – one that overturns epistemological assumptions deeply embedded in the history of culture and the human as usual. This other kind of knowing displaces discourse and practice from logics of self-consistency and closure to logics of process and procedure. It pursues a radical pragmatism with the radical imperative: Always act so there are more ways to act next.
PRESENTATIONS
A RADICAL REORDERING (OF, WELL, EVERYTHING): Notes toward a Book to be entitled, Another Way of Knowing
Don Byrd PhD – poet and theorist
Don will speak to the scope of Arakawa and Gins’ project viewed as an elaboration on The Mechanism of Meaning, a work which unpacks notions of intelligibility and meaning into constituent process and procedures. The move from logic to meaning, from coherence and universality to unique events, procedures (algorithms) and incoherence, characterizes A+G’s project as a whole.
ON PROCEDURAL ARCHITECTURE AND EFFICACY in the Work of Arakawa and Gins
Alan Prohm PhD – artist, scholar and educator
Alan will focus on the unique proposition A+G make in the history of art, architecture and philosophy: procedural architecture. He will question the efficacy they posit with this proposition in theory and practice, examining landing site theory (biotopology) and the architectural body as bases for an architecture for overcoming dying.
HOW-TO KNOW-HOW: The Taskings and Askings of Arakawa and Gins towards the Realisation of Living
Jondi Keane PhD – artist and independent scholar
Jondi will focus on processes and procedures of “cleaving” and on how this key notion— of joining and separating segments of awareness—informs activity within and across the modes of perception and action involved in responding to the body-wide prompts of A+G’s work.
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SOME SAMPLES FROM THE RESEARCH
A few soundbites, a bit of an interview and a slideshow:
Recording of Madeline Gins, with Arakawa at AG1 Paris Nanterre 2005
Conversation;
In conversation with Arakawa and Gins – on an Architecture for Tentativeness – with Alan Prohm NY Nov 2006
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Slideshow: A Visit at the Reversible Destiny Office – photos Alan Prohm NYC 2006
PROCEDURES Journal 