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Source: Lier en Boog, Concepts on the Move , pp. 155-192(38)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

Participants: Daniel Birnbaum, Anne-Marie Duguet, Thierry De Duve, Bartomeu Mari, Michael Newman.

The concluding symposium in Amsterdam evaluated the outcome of the ten previous workshops. In stressing the need to theoretically situate the current generation of artists in a topical discourse, the crucial role of the concept of experience emerged. How are the various perceptual and conceptual constituents, or apparatus if you will, of the artistic process (of communication) modified and further conceptualized by that concept of experience? What is the current position of forms of space and time? Could these forms guarantee visual art's universal i.e. intersubjective claim of validity? How could a topical form of aesthetic subjectivity be constituted? Is that subjectivity entirely defined by an awareness of temporality i.e. delay, distance, deferred action and trauma? Wouldn't the subject, then, remain its own self-appropriation, whereas a topical artistic subjectivity seems to be characterized by a "being with", a situational "interface", and an urge for deictic exposure? At the same time, a decisive claim for a novel interpretation of the autonomous forces occularcentrism, in the form of scopic regimes, to lose its expressiveness.

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Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2002-05-28