Thinking out loud by Linda Havenstein

Linda Havenstein is an interdisciplinary artist whose work deals with language, signs and symbols, and how they shape our perceptions of reality. Starting with moving images, she works with installations, sculpture, painting and virtual contents, combining analogue and digital aspects in the same artworks. Her recent focus is on the use of code and encryption in order to distort and change notions of meaning, as well as applying new forms of decryption and decoding to establish new interpretations. 

In her talk, Havenstein introduced her artistic practice and the approaches she developed while staying in Okinawa and Korea, as well as her collaborative practice with Yuken Teruya. »The day of departure«, a video work created after a period spent in Okinawa, was born out of her observations on the demilitarisation and peace movement, combined with local nature, and adding a sense of fate and time to the political issues. »The Guryong Walks« superimposes the structure of a soon-to-be-cleared illegal settlement in Gangnam on several iconic and newly-built areas in metropolitan Seoul. »The Apology« asks whether an individual can atone for collectively committed wrongdoing, and »This one is on us« questions the role of politics in cultural and social everyday life.

Presentation by Linda Havenstein

A video of the talk can be found here:

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