Dans le laboratoire de l’artiste : des représentations à l’épreuve du vivant

Artists increasingly choose scientific devices and even its methodology as the center of their practice. Is this the expression of a desire to base creation on objectively established knowledge, in a society still largely subject to positivist models? Moreover, can and should their work, which const...

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Main Author: Vincent Lecomte
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts 2021-06-01
Series:Images Re-Vues
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/10863
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Summary:Artists increasingly choose scientific devices and even its methodology as the center of their practice. Is this the expression of a desire to base creation on objectively established knowledge, in a society still largely subject to positivist models? Moreover, can and should their work, which constitutes a true "act of investigation", lead to knowledge comparable to that of a scientist? The study of the living, in particular, occupies an increasingly primordial place within contemporary art, especially in the development of experiments often inspired by the model of the so-called "hard" sciences, whose object of investigation is the animal. In this context, is an artist-scientist merely a chimerical figure or does he have the means to incite us to consider extrahuman representations?
ISSN:1778-3801