Document (#28533)

Author

Gold/Smith, S.

Title

Texture of knowledge

Source

Knowledge organization. 31(2004) no.2, S.74-91

Year

2004

Content

"As a visual artist I am interested in the related practices of art and science - the ways we understand the natural world, what we identify as knowledge, and how we collect, organize, store, and represent information. It was with this sense of inquiry that I traveled to Uppsala, Sweden, to explore this centre of eighteenth-century scientific thinking and the legacy of western scientific classification systems. Botanist, Carolus Linnaeus, born in Sweden in 1707, developed our binomial system of classification. He classified plants, minerals, animals, and some diseases an the basis of likeness and difference. The residue of his life's work can still be found in the University of Uppsala herbarium and animal collections, in the city gardens, and in the preserved residences. I was searching for a transparent view into the early development of science, a view into the transitional period when knowledge became quantifiable and alienated from artistic practice. Linnaeus' legacy was rich with revealing residue. Displayed were examples of his botanical collages, metaphoric language in his writing, and drawings in his notebooks. His scientific practice took place in a domestic environment muck like an artist's studio. His private rooms were literally wall-papered with botanical prints. In his lived world, science and art were not separated as they are today. Naming and classifying was the foundation of Linnaeus' work. In his historic text, "Systemae Naturae", Linnaeus partitioned knowledge. The final category, "Litteraria", became a vulnerable addendum holding the sediment of unquantifiable language, resemblances, virtues, stories, living histories. Linnaeus' task - nothing less than the "nomination of the visible" - was to reduce the distance between things and language. In his philosophical treatise an botany, Linnaeus discussed the limiting and filtering of visible things in order to transcribe them into language. His goal was to create "botanical calligrams": "Displayed in themselves, emptied of all resemblances, cleansed even of their colours, visual representation will now at last provide natural history with what constitutes a proper object." My exhibition, "Texture of Knowledge", ("Der Stuff Des Wissens", B.I.S., Möchengladbach, Germany, 1997), contains images from collections photographed in Uppsala, images from other scientific sources, and from the fluxus of my studio practice. Working with the images in my studio, I was also limiting and filtering and placing forms side by side. The resulting images disturb the notion of "a proper object", and evoke a complex web of associations - perhaps, the lost "Litteraria". In the studio I was playing with the rhetoric of natural history display, breaking through the rectilinear framing, and introducing an incoherence into systematic logic."

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