The 17th Study of Design Fundamentals Seminar: "Radical Reversibility: the Gaze Multiple"

Kyushu University Faculty of Design explores the fundamental methodology of design for integrating a wide range of designs. We were pleased to invite Elodie Hiryczuk, visual artist, to share with us her ideas and experiences about “Radical Reversibility: the Gaze Multiple”.

[Topic]

Departing from the assumption that looking is a multi-directional process, the univocal concept of the gaze, as created by a dominant western worldview, needs to be challenged. For this purpose ‘research through images’ can be employed as a method to investigate different cultures of the gaze, from intercultural, transhistorical and non-anthropocentric perspectives. With the aim of conceiving the act of looking as transformative and messy we will further introduce the sensitizing concept of the ‘gaze multiple’. We will consider how particular contemporary photographic art practices offer alternative and more complex approaches to what seeing can mean for our relationship with environments.

[Speaker]

Elodie Hiryczuk (b. 1977, France) is a visual artist and a researcher based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She studied Moving Image at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and at the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam). Since 2001 she has been working as an artist duo with Sjoerd van Oevelen (b. 1974, The Netherlands). Hiryczuk / Van Oevelen have had exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad. They received a Red Dot Award and were nominated for the 13th annual Van Bommel Van Dam Prize. Together they recently co-founded the practice and research-based art foundation Radical Reversibility. Elodie Hiryczuk has been artist in residence at AIT Arts Initiative Tokyo (Japan) and Skaftfell Center for Visual Art in Seydisfjördur (Iceland). She is currently lecturer Expanded Photography at ArtEZ AKI Academy of Art and Design in Enschede and PhD researcher at the Center for the Arts in Society at Leiden University (The Netherlands).

[Host]
Kyushu University Faculty of Design

[Co-host]
School of Design, Design Futures Course