"Sculpture in the Expanded Field: The Transformation of Public and Private Space.”*

Sculpture Department:
Prof. Regina Maria Möller
Prof. Gediminas Urbonas

Wood and Metal Workshop:
Avd. Engineer Odd Joar Oksås

The KIT Sculpture Department focuses on artistic methods and concepts related to three-dimensional forms, especially those that expand or challenge a conventional definition of “sculpture.” Artistic practices such as installations, environmental art, site-specific projects, and extensions of the body—to name only a few—are taken up and analyzed in relation to their socio-political impact, their construction, and their positioning of meaning as discursive space.

We look at historic readings of “sculpture,” as well as projects that experiment, for example, with mass, gravity, material accumulation or the artful use of specific materials, in order to understand and discuss sculpture as a spatial experience. That is, to understand sculpture not just as a monumental habitat, but also as a mental, physical, linguistic and performative construct of space. What is the contemporary meaning and use of “sculpture,” especially in an age of so-called “new media”? This question suggests possibilities for extending and developing sculpture’s role as a discursive and social space that can include new technologies and media, as well as possibilities for re-defining sculpture’s relationships to scale, the body and audience(s).