The body, a heterotopi* in transition
*”Heterotopias are worlds within worlds, mirroring and diskursive spaces that are intense, disturbing, incompatible, contradictory or transforming”. Heterotopias are disturbing, no doubt because they secretly undermine language, because they prevent naming this and that, because they break up common names or entangle them. “
M. Foucault
The field “art” has a variety of more or less creative or complex definitions. From being equated with a war machine created by a nomad (artist) who draws maps, reterritorializes, and desterritorializes to create lines of flight (Gilles Deleuze) to being a policy that distributes the visible (Jacques Ranciere).
Does art have a “function”? If against all odds, someone decided to risk an answer, the “disembodied machine” will go on the counterattack and ask ” whats criteria defined the function of art?
Art is everything from creative transformation, one-sided elements, dysfunctional tones, influencing factors, lines related to concepts, including chemical formulas and much more.
The only role and function that art has is to be art “everything else is everything else” as it has been said.
For example: “The Unknown Soldier” by Hugo Ball, has been interpreted as a picture, a play, a performance, a poem, a farce, a meaningless performance, etc, etc.I decided added new problems to the allready
“problematic work”through making a “difference in repetition”and I called my pastiche to Balls work:”Tango Ball (ade).Was it art?
Later, I decided to organize a interdisciplinary project (art, philosophy, psychology) to have a common thread. The project central axis is my own process of re-subjectivation.
I decide to use my body and its existetial experiences as material, and immersing myself in the labyrinths of the subject with the aim of creating useful existential tools.
In the begining it may be my temporary answer to Foucault’s question with which I begin this text, until I discover something else more interesting in my journey.
” MEDIATING ARTIFACTS”
About the relation ship between objects, memory and perception
“The perception is about the things and the gap between things”
Hans G.Gadamer.
“Mourning chacarera” Studio 44- 2023
Foto: Masoud Shahsavari/Emiliano Altera
“The spinner” Eldhunden/SKF-Kulturhuset -2022
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