Chapter Freedom feedback group 4

Ubuntu*

As part of the Chapter Freedom transdisciplinary team, artist Koen Vanmechelen selected Ubuntu as the artwork to integrate the ideations of group 4 with the feedback and reflections of the transdisciplinary team.

*Ubuntu is an African philosophy that translates as 'I am because we are'

Ubuntu, Seduzione. Koen Vanmechelen. Galleria degli Uffizi.jpg

Transdisciplinary team feedback group 4

Serendipity. Research by wondering. We want to gift each group with the poetic reflections of Group 4, a uniquely spiritual and multi-layered group, as an additional inspiration in their quest. Group 4 made connections using a different approach which caused us to reflect on the concept of serendipity: the way many discoveries in art and science are born, by a combination of giving yourself over to chance and luck on the one hand, and of having a lot of insight and/or wisdom on the other hand. Is freedom an intuition, an experience that you get only if you are able to reconcile innocence with intelligence? Group 4 also put forward an intriguing question: whether we need to hide part of our identity in order to achieve freedom. Koen Vanmechelen links these questions to his work, Ubuntu.