T.V. Europe: for the introduction of ‘vagueness’ in space
Résumé
Terrain vague, terrain vogue, empty or vacant land... The French expression ‘Terrain Vague’ is fundamentally polysemous: ‘Terrain’ (field, soil, land, ethnographic fieldwork), and ‘Vague’ (vague, vacant, nebulous, spleen, but also wave or tide, when used as a noun). The expression evokes notions as diverse as interstice, gap, fissure, void, room, path, zone, area and crevice. Here, Terrain Vague is above all an approach that explores the notion of (research, experimental or screen) space in all of its semantic variations. Whether public, terrestrial, transcendental or intimate, space is an essential anchor of our human, social and physical being (referring here to the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics). As Maurice Merleau-Ponty put it: "Our body is not in space, it is space itself". By combining practices from art, teaching, Science and Technology Studies and vague à l'âme, we propose to reinvest our relationship to the imprecision of space and its vagueness.