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.
| ISBN: | 9783837635744 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2016 |
| Author: | Michael Lent |
| Publisher: | Transcript Verlag |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 190 pages |
| Series: | Image |
| Genres: |
The arts: general topics Sociology Media studies |