Open AccessMerzbau, the grave of the logocentric self: He who screams becomes the space
Author(s) -
Pedro Pousada
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
porto arte
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-8001
pISSN - 0103-7269
DOI - 10.22456/2179-8001.62320
Subject(s) - dream , mnemonic , annoyance , doctrine , feeling , space (punctuation) , psychology , art , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , philosophy , social psychology , cognitive psychology , audiology , medicine , neuroscience , theology , linguistics , loudness
This article will discuss the Merzbau in Hannover as a "para-architecture" experience and as a doctrine on environmental comfort, connected to intense mnemonic feeling and relaxation. The Merzbau, the Gothic cubic "Traumhaus" (dream house) by Kurt Schwitters, is depicted here as a laboratory of sensory stimuli where an aesthetic control of oblivion, and of annoyance, has been practiced.