Louwrien Wijers

Museum Night in Amsterdam · George Brecht’s book: Void · Lots of wonderful coloured lines · Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy · Project: Writing a Sculpture Void · The way change takes place in art is very similar to the way change takes place in science · Revolutionary art signals a shift in paradigm · Giving up the idea of only a few people leading a pack of other people who are following · The art situation as a whole forms a network or a spiral · Works of art are always direct · Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics · We no longer assume there is any real world with which we have to establish contact · The Heart Sutra: form is emptiness, emptiness is form · Enlightenment: a state beyond the uncontrolled, agitated, dissatisfied mind · Contemporary science teaches us that it is not a matter of fixed facts anymore but of dynamic systems, not of eternal truths but of dialogue · An artist can express human feelings · Art can come from inside or outside, but inside and outside are not different

Louwrien Wijers, a writer and visual artist whose practice revolves specifically around sculpture, both mental and material. From 1968 to 1986, Wijers worked closely with Joseph Beuys to train herself to look at, write, and speak ‘like’ a sculpture. Wijers’ most important mental sculpture to date, titled Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy (1990/1996) is a direct result of a meeting of Joseph Beuys and the Dalai Lama she organised in Bonn in 1982. The influence of food on our future is now her main topic.