Courting Dissolution
Adumbration, Alterity, and the Dislocation of Sacrifice from Space to Image
1st Edition
Published on 15. December 2016
190 pages
978-3-8394-3574-8 (ISBN)
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Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonisation and subsequent dissolution. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and 'raw' phenomenology of Jean Baudrillard as a challenge to a system of disappearance. Focusing on the otherness of space to prevent its ultimate dissolution, Lent promotes a spatial practice of radical alterity. Examining ideas of disappearance put forth by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, he utilises art as a means for investigating loss of potentiality and experience through the representation of space, shifting their ideas - originally ascribed to objects - into a new emphasis.This book ultimately attempts to break a cyclical system that causes everything to disappear into representation and equivalency.
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Adumbration, Alterity, and the Dislocation of Sacrifice from Space to Image
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Michael Lent (PhD) is an artist, researcher, and academic working with visual and textual media. He investigates non-productive expenditure in art and culture and specifically how these ideas relate to space. He is Head of Fine Art at the University of Teesside.
Content
- Cover. Courting Dissolution
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Initial Considerations
- OklahomaisOK
- Supporting the Indefinable
- Text as Practice
- Politics of Place
- Dis/location
- Disappearance and Reconsidered Experience
- A Transposition of Sacrifice
- Destructive Exchange
- Locating the Discourse
- Raw Phenomenological Method
- Foundational Phenomenology
- Strategies and Context
- Courting Dissolution
- A Practice of Adumbrational Space
- Experience and Adumbrations
- Robert Smithson and Colonisation as an Act of Disappearance
- Nonsites and Land Art
- Production of Space
- Non-Representational Space
- Practising Space
- Alterity as a Reaction to Globalisation
- Fragmentation and Mobility towards a Singular Other
- Fragmentation as Radical Alterity
- Mobility and the Conjunctive Loci
- Radicality
- Ellipsis
- Appendix
- untitled (meets in the middle), digital video (projection), 9:08
- untitled (meets at the end), digital video (projection), 18:00
- untitled (linear lapse), digital video (projection), 6:25
- untitled, 10 analogue photographs printed on habotai silk on wooden frames with fluorescent lights, each 80cm x 110cm x 10cm
- untitled, series of 4,506 photograph installation, each 102mm x 152mm
- Bibliography
