Today is the greatest

First art excursion of the trip (finally). Karen and I explored all that Utrecht has to offer, which is suprisingly much considering its not so big. Went first to BAK a contemporary art space where they are commited to "artistic research." Showing currently Irene Kopelman presenting part of her doctoral thesis, which she defended publicly a few days earlier, sorry I missed that. Cool that she did it in public insted of locked in the academy. Does that make her an art doctor? In theory I suppose. The exhibit is titled "The Molyneux Problem" which refers to some question John Locke posed about a blind person being taught to discern the difference between a cube and a sphere by touch, if he was then magically able to see, could he then recognize them by sight also? Thats a lame summary of a complex philosophic idea. But it was interesting to look at her work with this question in mind. She painstakingly observed glaciers in Antarctica, and was thinking about how we visually interpret the world around us and stuff. She asks "after you have felt and heard about art, can you still see it?" Whoa, you are an art doctor Irene. It was interesting to see art approached from a research and theory oriented perspective instead of my willy nilly ideas of intuitive line vomit.