Notes Towards a Zonal Aesthetics
This paper offers the “zonality” as a nickname for a speculative conception of the work of art as relatively autonomous and constitutively “siteless” site. Drawing upon the works of James Turrell, I argue that any such treatment demands strategic and hypothetical “dislocation” of the art object fro...
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| Language: | English |
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Simon Dawes, Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (CHCSC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
2022-11-01
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| Series: | Media Theory |
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| Online Access: | https://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/671 |
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| Summary: | This paper offers the “zonality” as a nickname for a speculative conception of the work of art as relatively autonomous and constitutively “siteless” site. Drawing upon the works of James Turrell, I argue that any such treatment demands strategic and hypothetical “dislocation” of the art object from the spatiotemporal horizons and socio-political conditions contextually at issue, and the recognition – performed and embodied in thought – of its “radical foreclosure” to anthropic determination or embrace. Ultimately, through my proposal for an aesthetic strategy in “thinking-with the artwork,” I propose provisional terms for a novel experience of the extractions, abstractions, and subtractions the zonal artwork practices upon, and undergoes in relation to, its ambient environment and the attendant human subject.
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| ISSN: | 2557-826X |