Art as a tool to reinvent our daily reality: textual and visual
outcomes of the temporary master Reinventing Daily Life at the Sandberg
Instituut in Amsterdam.
Does art possess the power to cause structural and meaningful changes in
daily life? How can we inject our daily reality with the estranging,
binding, and reflective qualities of theater, performance art, and the
visual arts? Using the artist's desire to escape institutional space as a
point of departure, the temporary master Reinventing Daily Life
investigated the implications, the possibilities, and the limits of daily
life as inspiration, as a place for presentation, and as a central
material. This publication marks the completion and distillation of this
inquiry. By means of a critical essay, correspondence with kindred spirits
from the field, and visual impressions of the alumni's work,
this book reflects on the possibility to merge art and life, fiction and
reality, and on the importance of this process for the future of artistic
practice.
