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Between 1979 and 1981, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Through private interviews, sidewalk polls and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar's three-year and seven-phase project, ''Studies on happiness'', addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. It also(...)
Alfredo Jaar: Studies on happiness
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Between 1979 and 1981, Alfredo Jaar asked Chileans a deceptively simple question: "Are you happy?" Through private interviews, sidewalk polls and video-recorded forums, among other interventions, Jaar's three-year and seven-phase project, ''Studies on happiness'', addressed a furtive and fearful population living under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. It also spoke to a country in transition, as a newly adopted constitution remade Chile through privatisation and other neoliberal reforms. In its varied interventions and direct mode of address, ''Studies on happiness'' functioned as a feedback device meant to catalyse a critical awareness with its blunt questioning. Edward A. Vazquez contextualises Studies on Happiness within Jaar's early production and situates his practice within a Chilean art world haunted by the residues of political violence. This study foregrounds the project's historical embeddedness and the deep political stakes of its apparent sociality, recognising the crucial role that context has always played in Jaar's practice. By turning to the Santiago of Studies on Happiness, Vazquez explores the work's political and art historical environment and provides a wedge to realign current interpretations of Chilean art and hemispheric conceptualism with the openness central to Jaar's project.
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Mad about painting
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Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His mastery of ukiyo-e in the nineteenth century has inspired generations of artists since, and his works helped introduce the world to the delicate beauty and power of the Japanese woodblock technique. In addition to his remarkable artistic output, Hokusai was also a dedicated teacher who sought to pass down his unique(...)
Mad about painting
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Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His mastery of ukiyo-e in the nineteenth century has inspired generations of artists since, and his works helped introduce the world to the delicate beauty and power of the Japanese woodblock technique. In addition to his remarkable artistic output, Hokusai was also a dedicated teacher who sought to pass down his unique understanding of color and painting to practicing artists through immensely detailed written tutorials and manuals, many of which are excerpted here, in English, for the first time.
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Conviant quelques philosophes et de nombreux artistes, ce livre réfléchit sur l'universalité du phénomène artistique, le reliant à l'aspiration constitutive des humains et de leurs sociétés vers le plus-être et l'expérience augmentée. Cherchant ce qui fait l'essence de l'art, l'artiste et universitaire, Danielle Boutet va loin dans la psyché créatrice de l'artiste, tout(...)
L'intelligence de l'art - Regard sur les principes organisateurs de l'expérience artistique
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Conviant quelques philosophes et de nombreux artistes, ce livre réfléchit sur l'universalité du phénomène artistique, le reliant à l'aspiration constitutive des humains et de leurs sociétés vers le plus-être et l'expérience augmentée. Cherchant ce qui fait l'essence de l'art, l'artiste et universitaire, Danielle Boutet va loin dans la psyché créatrice de l'artiste, tout comme dans celle, participative, des récepteurs. Ce faisant, elle met en lumière notre besoin vital de sens et de nous sentir partie prenante du monde. L'art apparaît alors comme la grande technologie de l'Être, c'est-à-dire un ensemble de techniques, de savoir-faire, d'instruments et d'activités dont la fonction première, intemporelle, est d'augmenter la qualité de notre rapport au monde.
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Les images s’incarnent dans une infinie diversité d’objets, de phénomènes et de situations, semblant toujours résister à notre irrépressible besoin de les définir. À moins, peut-être, de se demander d’où elles viennent. Œuvres peintes, diagrammes, cartes, images télévisuelles, images scientifiques, ombres, photographies satellites, dessins pariétaux, se côtoient ainsi ici(...)
Images premières: Aux origines de la représentation visuelle
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Les images s’incarnent dans une infinie diversité d’objets, de phénomènes et de situations, semblant toujours résister à notre irrépressible besoin de les définir. À moins, peut-être, de se demander d’où elles viennent. Œuvres peintes, diagrammes, cartes, images télévisuelles, images scientifiques, ombres, photographies satellites, dessins pariétaux, se côtoient ainsi ici en douze « tableaux », pour nous faire cheminer dans cette zone liminaire et fragile où les images sont tout juste des images. Aux frontières et aux origines même de la représentation visuelle, les images premières peuvent nous aider à préciser, à raffiner, à définir, à la fois ce que nous savons sur l’image et ce que nous pouvons savoir par l’image.
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L'art textile
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Si une influence lie l'Ökologie Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) au Lebensraum de Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904), une autre rattache ce dernier et son élève Franz Boas (1858-1942), futur fondateur de l'anthropologie culturelle américaine. Or, de traverses racistes en arborescences darwinistes, anthropologie, primitivisme et culture matérielle fascinent tout autant l'imagination(...)
L'art textile
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Si une influence lie l'Ökologie Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) au Lebensraum de Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904), une autre rattache ce dernier et son élève Franz Boas (1858-1942), futur fondateur de l'anthropologie culturelle américaine. Or, de traverses racistes en arborescences darwinistes, anthropologie, primitivisme et culture matérielle fascinent tout autant l'imagination d'Aby Warburg (1866-1929) que celle de Gottfried Semper (1803-1879). À partir de 1860, le vieil architecte féru de renaissance italienne et de romantisme néoclassique étend ses recherches à l'étude des «styles», fussent-ils maori ou océanien. Un écheveau plaçant l'acte de parure au cœur du dispositif se tisse alors entre les «revêtements» que sont tatouage, tissage textile et huttes.
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In "The hidden factor," Steven Skaggs provides a beautifully illustrated and explained introduction to the mark—from those as physical as a scratch made by an animal, to those as accidental as a splatter of paint, to those as intentional as hand-drawn characters. Skaggs makes the case that, in the visual arts, gestures and mark-making operate on an equal level with image(...)
The hidden factor: Mark and gesture in visual design
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In "The hidden factor," Steven Skaggs provides a beautifully illustrated and explained introduction to the mark—from those as physical as a scratch made by an animal, to those as accidental as a splatter of paint, to those as intentional as hand-drawn characters. Skaggs makes the case that, in the visual arts, gestures and mark-making operate on an equal level with image and word. While we might think of content as that which is communicated through text and images, Skaggs shows, through visual examples, that the gestural mark is often hidden within both images and the typographic forms that convey words. By mapping different kinds of marks and showing how marks combine with image and word, "The hidden factor" explains that our desire for conceptual information suppresses our awareness of marking. This is especially the case with the tension between word and mark, where we desire legibility. As a result, one of the most conservative of arts—calligraphy—has the potential of being the most radical, since gesturally expressive handwriting is a natural threat to the legibility of a text.
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''Broken relations: infrastructure, aesthetic, and critique'' is a symptom and an outcome of a collectively experienced crisis — one that has produced a new, widespread sensorium for often invisible and overlooked infrastructures and highlighted their importance for all aspects of life, including politics, both local and global, and art and curatorial practices and their(...)
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Broken relations: infrastructure, asesthetics, and critique
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''Broken relations: infrastructure, aesthetic, and critique'' is a symptom and an outcome of a collectively experienced crisis — one that has produced a new, widespread sensorium for often invisible and overlooked infrastructures and highlighted their importance for all aspects of life, including politics, both local and global, and art and curatorial practices and their systemic analysis. The reader views infrastructures not only as material phenomena and physical networks but also as immaterial relations and symbolic actions, which, in visible and invisible ways, form our present and, hence, our horizon of aesthetic perception. The interplay between the material and ideological conditions of production, distribution, and presentation directs our gaze, schooled as it is in institutional critique, onto real and symbolic orders, sites, and economies. The book is based on a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: this started in Leipzig in 2021 with the lecture series and exhibition ''Broken relations: infrastructure and interruption'' and continued in Vienna in 2022 with the exhibition ''Conditions and frameworks: infrastructure as form and medium'' and the conference ''Broken relations: infrastructure, aesthetics, and critique''.
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According to the writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive." Drawing inspiration from her seminal essays "The ceremony must be found" (1984) and “The Ceremony Found” (2015), "Ceremony" draws on Wynter’s thinking to suggest that "modernity," contrary to its own self-image as(...)
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novembre 2023
Ceremony: Burial of an undead world
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According to the writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, "we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive." Drawing inspiration from her seminal essays "The ceremony must be found" (1984) and “The Ceremony Found” (2015), "Ceremony" draws on Wynter’s thinking to suggest that "modernity," contrary to its own self-image as rational and secular, is also determined by origin myths that emerged through the "mutations" of Christian cosmology after the dawn of capitalism in the Middle Ages. With over twenty-five unique contributions and commentaries on Wynter’s propositions from artists and writers, this publication will constitute a critical reference point for those seeking to construct and envisage a "counter-cosmogony" to the dispossession, slavery, and extractivism of modernity — which together endangers planetary life.
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Art and thought
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Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.
Art and thought
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Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.
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Blockchain technology is changing the internet and the way we cohabitate, communicate, and behave, both online and offline. Advocates of the technology point to the development of a new internet (Web3) and conjure up notions of a gigantic future metaverse and the emergence of increasingly decentralised organisations and structures. Some see this as crypto-anarchistic(...)
Algorithmic Imaginary: Art on the blockchain and in the Metaverse
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Blockchain technology is changing the internet and the way we cohabitate, communicate, and behave, both online and offline. Advocates of the technology point to the development of a new internet (Web3) and conjure up notions of a gigantic future metaverse and the emergence of increasingly decentralised organisations and structures. Some see this as crypto-anarchistic wishful thinking, while others forecast a more democratic and just future for all. ‘Algorithmic Imaginary’ focuses on the works and ideas of artists and theorists who analyse, question, and reconceive both blockchain and associated applications such as DAOs, NFTs, and the metaverse.
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