Fernand Deligny : Wandering in Now Here
attempts : tentatives in the original French let us also see attempts become at temps : at times, a very poor blend of english and french, in fact, a dad joke level reaching for the tenuous
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So let us look at a way in Alys gives us licence when he states Poetic licence operates like a hiatus – an “agent provocateur“, a short circuit — into the atrophy of a situation that finds itself in a state of political, social, confessional, ethnic, economic or military crisis or lethargy. Through the absurd […]
Akomfrah : Inside the image
on the experience of migration, of never really arriving, even when one is “there.” a more classical figure of the epic hero whose very mode of being is the journey. central to Akomfrah’s work: how it is possible to “open up” an image, to detach an image from the narrative and the chronology of which […]
Martin Seel: The Aesthetics of Appearing
Aesthetic consciousness perceives reality in the particularity of its own sensuous self-presentation, and this means in the simultaneity and momentariness in which it presents itself to sensuous discernment. In this perspective, aesthetic perception is understood as the opening of a zone of appearing [Erscheinen] in which reality is revealed from a different, otherwise inaccessible, side. […]
Berger : Necessity and Freedom
Any drawn place is both a here and an elsewhere. There is nothing else like these places; they are to be found only in drawings. (Painting is different again because painting is about absence.) Each drawn place has all the particularity and local knowledge of a here, and, at the same time, the promise of […]
Alys : The artist as agent provocateur
Poetic licence operates like a hiatus – an “agent provocateur“, a short circuit — into the atrophy of a situation that finds itself in a state of political, social, confessional, ethnic, economic or military crisis or lethargy. Through the absurd and sometimes impertinent nature of the poetic act, art provokes a moment of suspended meaning, […]