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Camouflaged with a visual language
Camouflaged with a visual language

Malte Fabian Rauch

Where the Negative Holds Court

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?” Many ventured to explore this wasteland, our present, in recent years. But cartographing a void is delicate matter. It is a blank space; it demands new methods. Representation is not among them, having proved too imprecise an instrument. One group went further than most others: drawing lines, mapping grounds, testing waters. Their lines introduced...
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Kerstin Stakemeier

Crisis and Materiality in Art

Against all earlier hopes, the survival of mankind in and after the modern industrial age has turned out not to be automatable. On the contrary, it entirely depends on the continued active restoration of its material living conditions. Gilbert Simondon describes this connection between humans and their machines in the 1950s in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects as a tragically truncated, restricted, and limiting way of living for both because, “man’s alienation vis à vis the machine...
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  • materialist turn
  • thing/thingness
  • anthropology
  • material aesthetics
  • materiality