"... presents ... a selection of texts, from 2010 to 2021, that introduce an exercise in how a practice of art and exhibition making has been influenced by philosophical thinking." --Preface. Includes bibliography ([3] pages following page 185)
Contents:
Notes toward a nonbinary world -- Quantum arts: art beyond history, art beyond the line -- Clandestine happiness: what do we mean by artistic research? -- I celebrate myself and sing myself: anachronism as a method -- As little time on the ground as possible: first attempt on the possibility of artistic significance beyond philosophy of history -- Can the world be possessed by shoegazers? the limits of lyricism, the potential of the tragic -- What is the future of art? If the future is not enough... -- The great game to come: an introduction to the true inhabitants of Mars -- Curatorial entanglements: how the ideas became form -- How a tadpole becomes a frog: belated aesthetics, politics, and animated matter toward a theory of artistic research -- Unexpress the expressible -- The politics of attitudes: on the relationship between attitudes, skepticism, and disengagement -- The complex answer -- Thinking metamorphoses: overcoming the Cartesian divide -- Aesthetic consciousness -- The octopus in love -- Metamorphoses: let everything happen to you (from the book of the same title, 2018) -- Food in the metabolic era -- Heidi Bucher: a work illuminated by the senses -- Be enraptured in the will to be transformed! on the work of Rebecca Horn -- The days and the nights of the ocean -- New institutions at the horizon: how the white cube turns into nature -- The invention is nature -- Gathering sea I am!
Summary:
"The Complex Answer: On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence presents a series of entangled essays on the question on how art--and contemporary art practices in particular--embodies an intelligence capable of serving the erasure of the culture/nature distinction. The book is conceived in four parts and each not only introduces a slightly different writing on the subject matter, but also refers to concrete questions that affect the practice of art, the exercise of exhibiting, the duty of reflecting, and the institutional forms that define our present but may radically change in a near future." --publisher.
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