(In)visible Dialogues was an art project realized at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in

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in 2011. It was initiated by artist Per Huttner and biochemist

Elias Arnér Elias Arnér (Elias S. J. Arnér; born 2 March 1966) is a Swedish professor in biochemistry active in the fields of redox biology and cancer research. He studied medicine at Karolinska Institutet and became a medical doctor in 1997. He received h ...

. The project was transgressing the boundaries of

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and

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s in order to stimulate dialogues between art and science. The project was a sequel to the project Begrepp – En samling from 1992''(In)visible Dialogues'', Ed. E. Arnér and P. Huttner, Published by Dent-de-Leone. and drew on Hüttner's experiences from projects like I am a Curator and Democracy and Desire. (In)Visible Dialogues was installed in three interconnected rooms. In the first, there were 120 fluorescent chairs facing a blank wall. On the back of each chair a copy of the project's catalogue had been nailed and officially signed by a Professor from

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and approved for publication, following local academic protocol. Each chair was an authorized copy of

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's Concrete from 1980 that had been customized by the design group Åbäke. The two flanking side rooms remained empty apart from a solitary lectern painted in the same color as the chairs and which was connected to speakers that emitted music and sounds composed by participating sound artists

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and Richard Allalouf, Natalia Kamia, Samon Takahashi,

Ebbot Lundberg Torbjörn "Ebbot" Lundberg (born 26 February 1966)''(In)visible Dialogues'', 2011, p. 170. Published by Dent-de-Leone. . is a Swedish artist, songwriter and music producer who lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. From 1995 to 2012, he was the lead singer ...

and Yan Jun who interpreted a text written by Hüttner and Arnér on the importance and difficulty of dialogues between art and science. A new sound piece was played back each week. Lundberg's contribution, ''There's Only One of Us Here'' was released in 2012 – his first solo album in a 25-year career. At 2pm, every Sunday in March 2011, a dialogue took place. The dialogues were devised so that a member of the scientific community dialogued with a member of the world of visual art. The audience could not see the two dialoguing people, who could not see each other either.

Dialogue schedule

6 March 2011 – Probing the Boundaries of Performance Predrag Petrovic, M.D. Ph.D., Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm and

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, Artists, Jacqueline Riva MFA and Geoff Lowe Ph.D., Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d'Angers,

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13 March 2011 – Probing the Boundaries of Insight Konrad Kaufmann, Ph.D., Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie,

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and Arijana Kajfes, Artist, Stockholm, Sweden 20 March 2011 – Probing the Boundaries of Talent

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, Ph.D, Professor,

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, Department of

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and

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and Director of École Régional de Beaux Arts,

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27 March 2011 – Probing the Boundaries of the Mind Veronique Wiesinger,

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and director for Alberto and Annette Giacometti Foundation,

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and

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, MD PhD, Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Stockholm

References

External links

Official website for the project
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