HETEROTOPIA: A REAL PLACE THAT FUNCTIONS AS AN “OTHER SPACE,” WHERE INCOMPATIBLE RULES AND REALITIES COEXIST WITHIN SOCIETY — SUCH AS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS OR GRAVEYARDS.
- MICHEL FOUCAULT
HETEROTOPIA: A PLACE WHERE INCOMPATIBLE REALITIES COEXIST, SUCH AS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS OR GRAVEYARDS.
- MICHEL FOUCAULT
MONOLITH
audiovisual installation, 2021
HETEROTOPIA: A PLACE WHERE INCOMPATIBLE REALITIES COEXIST
- MICHEL FOUCAULT
CONCEPT / SOUND / ARCHITECTURE : Jelena Pavlović
*For the full experience, turn on sound.
If the monument belongs to the visible order of society, heterotopia begins where that order expels, isolates or suspends what it no longer finds productive.
Drawing on Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, Monolith constructs an acoustic other space through the night, unfolding over 12 hours, 32 minutes and 30 seconds.
In the absence of light, the monument stops being an object and becomes an event. Through a spatial soundscape composed of environmental sounds and traces of human presence generated by visitors, the work redistributes sound in real time, allowing presence and absence to continuously intersect.
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