DIVE Festival

Intellectual. Delusional. Sensual. Reflective. Creative.

This year’s DIVE Festival offers an odyssey through all of OUR MINDS with its charming traits.
Dive into our multidisciplinary program, with selected artworks like ceramics, paintings, photography and music performances ranging from Lo-fi and Rap to Rock! On Friday the 12th the Festival will close with epic sets by our DJs. The entrance is free!
HETEROTOPIA: AN ANALOGY OF A MIRROR by Eliso
HETEROTOPIA MEANING

Elsemarijn Hijweege:
Foucault uses this word to describe spaces that are ‘heteros’, meaning different, and ‘topos’, meaning places, so it is about ‘other places’ or ‘other spaces’ as you might say. They are, as it were, outside spaces, spaces that do not fit into our normal demographics. These other spaces are spaces that are a mirror image of conventional space: as a direct and inverse analogy of it.

These spaceless spaces undermine the familiar because they disorganize our order. They undermine our demography. We cannot get a grip on them. They escape from the invisible power that is linked to our order. From their alienation, from their transgression of those grids, they reveal the foundations from which we give meaning to the world by disrupting our cultural demography. They reveal the naked fact that we create an order in things in the world.

DIFFERENT FORMS

Heterotopias, according to Foucault, occur in every culture throughout history. Moreover, heterotopias have various manifestations, no heterotopia is universal. Heterotopias break through the boundaries of conventional space, contesting the conventional demography by mirroring and inverting its culture. How they do this is characterized by six principles, to which all heterotopias conform to some degree. To get a deeper understanding of these characteristics, they are visualized separately.
HETEROTOPIA / OF CRISIS OR DEVIATION