Substantiating displacement

The Phd by project ‘Substantiating displacement’ looks at a generic topic through a specific lens: it looks at architecture’s potential to trigger physical en mental (inter)action through the lens of my personal spatial artistic practice. This practice is situated on four levels (architecture, art, education and research) and was gradually transformed by engaging with architecture in three different environments (educational, professional, academic).<br><br>The environment that was set-up to grind this lens is the OPAK research project ‘Art as Vacancy’. This environment opened up a space for the creation new works in trans-disciplinary collaborations with different artists selected for their specific and often complementary approach towards architectural topics. In that sense a reflection on my architectural practice was triggered by consciously displacing this practice into the overlapping field of architecture and art.<br><br>As such ‘Substantiating displacement’ can best be described as an evidence based case study that aims at revealing and questioning the frameworks I work with(in), by actively engaging with mediators (a.o. art & artists) in the design and creation of new work, in order to explore the transitional space between subject and object. It presents evidence that suggests different models of how a spatial artistic practice bridges the object subject gap, a method to reveal and question the conceptual frameworks a creative practitioner works with/in and the potential of engaging with mediators in the creative practice.