Fata Morgana. An Essay Journey explores the optical phenomenon of the Fata Morgana and its mythical namesake, Morgain Le Fay, as a figure of thought to explore transcultural and transgeographical relationships between landscape and identity. Conceived as an essay journey with artistic interventions, Fata Morgana argues for rethinking imagined geographies against the territorial bigotry prevalent in Europe and the world, against essentialist ideas of singular or linear origins. Instead, using Fata Morgana as motif, myth and method for artistic research, Körschkes uses its ephemerality and “diffuse occurrences” to relocate places into other places, narratives onto other narratives, and thus brings together different spatialities, temporalities and identities into brieftopian co-existence.
Fata Morgana. An Essay Journey
Biography
Torben Körschkes is an artist and experimental spatial designer. In essays, montages, installations, and fictions, he seeks to challenge the relationship between concepts of space and community. He is part of the design and research collective HEFT, which deals with questions of socio-political spaces, as well as studio lose, a collaborative design studio with Ina Römling and Frieder Bohaumilitzky. He is co-editor of Specology – Zu einer ästhetischen Forschung (Hamburg, 2023) and currently a PhDArts candidate at the University of Leiden, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) and Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK). https://torbenkoerschkes.de/
Original title
Fata Morgana. An Essay Journey
Languages
English
Keywords
spatial imaginaries, essayistic, feminism, Assemblage, artistic research, narratives, Myths, landscape, territory
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