The (De-)Construction of The Invisible is an art project that
involves theoretical discourse. As a philosophical term, ‘the invisible’ is based on pioneering works such as Merleau-Ponty's
‘Visible et l'Invisible’ (Visible and The Invisible), or Wittgenstein's 'Über Gewissheit’ (On Certainty). It can however also
be understood as a place holder for the (still) invisible, the hidden, the overlooked or the taboo.
The aim of the project
was the exploration and visualization of the invisible by means of art, and of drawing in particular. New York was chosen
as the place to carry out the project. For scientific liaison, the Department of Philosophy, and for artistic liaison, the
Department of Arts, Staller Center - both at the State University of New York at Stony Brook ? were chosen, and as a further
artistic liaison, the Drawing Center, in Manhattan.
New York, the repeatedly shaken (epi-)center of capital and of external
appearance - the financial crisis now far overshadows the slump after 9/11 - offered itself as the greatest challenge for
the investigation of the invisible, so it is true that artists are the seismographs of society.
