Courting Dissolution

Adumbration, Alterity, and the Dislocation of Sacrifice from Space to Image
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3574-4
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 190 Seiten, Hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

Reihe: Image

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lent, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Über Autor(innen)

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.