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The Margin at the Centre, or The Centre as Margin. Eccentric Perspective on Art, 2019
Art Readers on Art -- Hong Kong 1, 2019
Moving image practices is my tactical location. That is me speaking as a media cultural historian, an art educator with a Critical Theory orientation, and as an experimental artist who cares about pushing boundaries. This is also the point of departure from which I build a divergent network of relations – to connect personal callings, aspirations and desires, doubts and questions of survival with the institutional and techno, to bring together different domains of knowledge and the dialectical relations of these different planes and moments. This map of connectivity is affinitive with the concept of “general organology” (普遍器官學)that Bernard Stiegler develops from medical biology and the study of musical instruments. To advance my argument for critical, experimental practices, an “organological” approach shows moving images occupying the interstitial – between epochs, generations, between dream and awakening, representation and knowledge, control and enlightenment, and between consumerist marketing activities and artistic creation, which is supposed to be a realm of progressive thinking. Following from this, moving images, no matter how problematic or subject to the capitalist logic, is precisely where critical response or experimental action for change should begin. In this sense, I do not want to remain a mere stake-holder in art but, if possible, also someone who seeks change and transformation, a role that analytic philosopher Amie Thomasson calls a “grounder of a name’s reference.” What kind of re-grounding do I attempt? Refreshing the kind of ontological questions to ask of art; ensuring a dialogical model; re-enlivening our sensual, cognitive-perceptual experience; re-activating the audience; opening up the meaning of art; engaging critically with the question of why preserving the autonomy of art is important and what that means... This essay will use several accessible examples from my practice to illustrate this thoughts.
Townsend Center For the Humanities, 1997
This paper argues that time—not autonomy, freedom, or some other related concept—is the conceptual and phenomenological thread running through Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Earth Art, and most of twentieth century Modernism. At the heart of this argument is a view of time as a process rather than a static or eternal concept. When one considers time as a flow of process within which other processes occur, Modernist purity falls away and reveals a tacit phenomenological coherence between many, if not all, Modernist art movements. The role of the viewer is considered equally alongside that of the artist and the two enter into a dialogical relationship with each other and the artwork itself. This relationship happens within time and tacitly deals with it as its phenomenological focus. Instead of formal purity or art as an a priori constant, we see here a view of art as foundationally tied into life is a complicated, messy, and fundamental way. By entertaining a common primary source of nearly all art made by human beings, we might be able to let go of artistic prejudices and feuds more easily and instead focus on what matters-simply making art in all of its varied and wondrous forms.
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