Futures of the Contemporary

Transdisciplinary
approaches to the notions of "the contemporary" and "contemporaneity"

Futures of the Contemporary
explores different notions and manifestations of "the contemporary" in music,
visual arts, art theory, and philosophy. In particular, the authors in this
collection of essays scrutinise the role of artistic research in critical and
creative expressions of contemporaneity. When distinguished from "the
contemporaneous" of a given historical time, "the contemporary" becomes a
crucial concept, promoting or excluding objects and practices according to
their ability to diagnose previously unnoticed aspects of the present. In this
sense, the contemporary gains a critical function, involving particular modes
of relating to history and one's own time.

Written by major experts from fields such as music
performance, composition, art theory, visual arts, art history, critical
studies, and philosophy, this book offers challenging perspectives on
contemporary art practices, the temporality of artistic works and phenomena,
and new modes of problematising the production of art and its public
apprehension.

Contributors: Andrew Prior (University
of Plymouth), Babette Babich (Fordham University), Geoff Cox (Fine Art at
Plymouth University / Aarhus University), Heiner Goebbels (Justus Liebig
University), Jacob Lund (Aarhus University), Michael Schwab (Orpheus
Institute), Pal Capdevila (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Paulo de Assis (Orpheus
Institute), Peter Osborne (Kingston University London), Ryan Nolan (University
of Plymouth), Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University)

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).