#postdigitalc

excerpt from 'Iphone epic test burn fire ice bend drop' (2015) by Lauren Huret

dOCUMENTA (13) is dedicated to artistic research and forms of imagination that explore commitment, matter, things, embodiment, and active living in connection with, yet not subordinated to, theory. These are terrains where politics are inseparable from a sensual, energetic, and worldly alliance between current research in various scientific and artistic fields and other knowledges, both ancient and contemporary. dOCUMENTA (13) is driven by a holistic and non-logocentric vision that is skeptical of the persisting belief in economic growth. This vision is shared with, and recognizes, the shapes and practices of knowing of all the animate and inanimate makers of the world, including people. - from dOCUMENTA (13) artistic director's statement, 2012

specialization <- research - investigation - exploration -> generalization

#juliamoritz #talk #postdigitalc

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/preliminary-materials-theory-young-girl

In the years since the book’s first publication in French, the worlds of fashion, shopping, seduction plans, makeover projects, and eating disorders have moved beyond the comparatively tame domain of paper magazines into the perpetual accessibility of Internet culture. Here the Young-Girl can seek her own reflection in corporate universals and social media exchanges of “personalities” within the impersonal realm of the marketplace. Tracing consumer society’s colonization of youth and sexuality through the Young-Girl’s “freedom” (in magazine terms) to do whatever she wants with her body, Tiqqun exposes the rapaciously competitive and psychically ruinous landscape of modern love.

Giving What You Don’t Have is an ongoing artistic research project exploring the relationship between art and the commons. Focus and methodology have been shifting in the course of the project according to new insights and evolving requirements. The idea for GWYDH has grown out of my PhD research, in which I explored artistic practices which are based on the reworking of existing material and thus generate conflicts with copyright. During this research, I realised how limited the discourse on appropriation is and shifted the question from what artists can TAKE, to the question of what artists can GIVE, in the sense of what they can contribute to the free circulation of art and culture.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUVmcKcTZ4A)