The Biotope
Only from a human point of view, which is constantly in search of organising things, one can talk about categories where culture and nature are opposed to each other.
As soon as the observer is non-human, all borders between artificial and natural and all
twilight areas between culture and nature are irrelevant and suspended. All elements, human or not, are products of the same world and have the same value.
process. Indeed, when a bird builds its nest, it doesn’t bother about an urbanisation plan either.
Autorzy:
- Koen Vanstappen
Koen Vanstappen (Mortsel, 4 september 1958) is a video artist and an author with a background in painting and a past in advertising and design.
He lives and works in Brussels/Belgium and Washington DC/USA. He is an art professor at the Mad Faculty in Hasselt, Belgium.