Ecce Homo
As part of the Chapter Freedom transdisciplinary team, artist Koen Vanmechelen selected Ecce Homo as the artwork to integrate the ideations of group 3 with the feedback and reflections of the transdisciplinary team.
Transdisciplinary team feedback group 3
Diversity. If we start from a concept of freedom based on the perspective of protection and acceptance, it becomes difficult to both embrace complexity and diversity, and also protect ourselves. The world is continuously changing. People migrate, technology evolves. Time and again, people look for ways to curb dangers, to prevent contamination. As a result, freedom is constantly under pressure from all kinds of influences and forces, such as religion and capital. These threaten to reduce freedom to ideology, leaving our concept of freedom in constant danger of extinction.
How can we learn to deal with balance and fluctuation but also chaos and contamination, so we can stay on the side of the panarchy cycle where our freedom increases? How can complexity help us to… simplify complexity? How far do you want to go for your freedom and everybody else’s? Perhaps you can also consider: the importance of breaking out of the cage, the joy of bridging gaps, the art of interaction, and the pleasure of contamination?
