Courting Dissolution: Adumbration, Alterity, and the Dislocation of Sacrifice from Space to Image

by Michael Lent

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837635744
Publication date:	07/05/2017
Series:	Image
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Initial Considerations 9

OklahomaisOK 15

Supporting the Indefinable 27

Text as Practice 27

Politics of Place 33

Dis/location 37

Disappearance and Reconsidered Experience 37

A Transposition of Sacrifice 44

Destructive Exchange 50

Locating the Discourse 53

Raw Phenomenological Method 59

Foundational Phenomenology 61

Strategies and Context 64

Courting Dissolution 71

A Practice of Adumbrational Space 71

Experience and Adumbrations 72

Robert Smithson and Colonisation as an Act of Disappearance 85

Nonsites and Land Art 86

Production of Space 99

Non-Representational Space 104

Practising Space 111

Alterity as a Reaction to Globalisation 111

Fragmentation and Mobility towards a Singular Other 114

Fragmentation as Radical Alterity 125

Mobility and the Conjunctive Loci 132

Radically 142

Ellipsis 151

Appendix 157

Untitled (meets in the middle), digital video (projection), 9:08 157

Untitled (meets at the end), digital video (projection), 18:00 160

Untitled (linear lapse), digital video (projection), 6:25 162

Untitled, 10 analogue photographs printed on habotai silk on wooden frames with fluorescent lights, each 80cm x 110cm x 10cm 164

Untitled, series of 4,506 photograph installation, each 102mm x 152mm 175

Bibliography 181