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    • People
    • wunderkammer principle
  • The MAMAs / The PAMAs
  • PLABORATORY
    • POP-UPS!
    • TESTIMONIALS
  • Fancy Research Things
    • Wonderblog
    • Resources
  • Artist Action Thinking Partners
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wunderkammer principle!

wunderkammer principle

A wunderkammer is a chamber of curiosities, a cabinet for the fantastic and a container of the mysterious, marvelous and magnificent.  It is like a coat with many pockets or a locket inside a locket inside a locket inside a many-layered cake. It opens where it closes and closes where it opens. It can be circular, beginning and ending simultaneously and always, even when there is a front door.

The Wunderkammer Principle celebrates curiosity, surprise, juxtaposition, provocation and discovery. It is an ethos of becoming, arriving, traveling, departing; of absorption, exploration, stimulation, contemplation; of stepping from one thing to the next in a cumulative process of acquisition and relinquishing. It is a space of opportunity and expression, containment and freedom, desire and determination, rest and activity.

This guiding principle governs IFCAP with great joy and prowess.

Other supportive guiding principles include:

Art-making is a Social Process
Art as a Gift-Exchange
Enchantment
The Pursuit of Aliveness
What Might Happen If?
Kindness
Rigor
Vitality

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