Event overview
A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality.
What Use Art?
A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality.
October 2011 | April 2012
InC, Continental Philosophy Research Group. University of London
http://www.gold.ac.uk/inc
The seminars will be structured around four main areas:
- Art and philosophy: the first topic interrogates the place philosophy finds for art within its own systems. Why does art often get used to solve questions of ethics, metaphysics and politics, rather than being a question for philosophy in itself?
- Use and validation: the second topic investigates the arguments for art’s validation/non- validation in relation to its description as being either useful/useless (art and education, theory and practice);
- The end of art: the third topic looks at contemporary reading of art’s death, framed in relation to its use;
- Survival: the fourth topic aims to tackle the issue surrounding the survival/non-survival of the arts in our current political environment. What art would have to do, or what use it would need to fulfil to survive, and whether this survival of the arts at all cost is to be considered desirable.
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Mark Riley is a Senior Lecture in the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the University of Roehampton. Previously he studied sculpture at Central School of Art, Fine Art at Central St Martins and completed a PhD in Philosophy at Goldsmiths in 2005. He is the author of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema (2008).
Abstract: Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) was an artist active throughout the 1970s producing a number of temporary architectural inventions in large scale and domestic buildings both in the United States and in Europe. This paper focuses on two works produced in 1971 ('Time Well/Cherry Tree') and 1977 ('Descending Steps for Batan'). Central to both projects are the themes of memorialisation, mourning and burial and this essay will consider these in relation to the term coined by Judith Russi Kirshner; the 'non-ument'. I will argue that there was an introjective operation at work in Matta-Clark's works which complicates the traditional metaphysical dialectic of inside and outside; presence and absence. For this I will propose a new term that addresses this slippage between interior and exterior; encyst-ence. This cystic operation of the 'non-ument' indicates an activity that identifies the alien as 'other', not absorbing it but retaining its 'otherness' within the systemised organisation of the architectural edifice. I will draw on work by Pamela M. Lee ('Object to be Destroyed') and Stephen Walker ('Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism') and also Mark Wigley's text, 'The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt'.
Dates & times
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22 Nov 2011 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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