Some Ways of Making Nothing Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art / Curt Cloninger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cloninger, Curt, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2021

Santa Barbara : Punctum Books, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"What if all works of art were better understood as functioning apparatuses, entangling their human audiences in experiences of becoming? What if certain works of art were even able to throw the brakes on becoming altogether, making nothings rather than somethings? What would be the ethical value of making nothing, of stalling becoming; and how might such nothings even be made? Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art borrows its understanding of apparatuses from quantum mechanics and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and its understanding of nothing from apophatic (negative) theology. It then proposes a new way of understanding art, applying this understanding to artworks by Arakawa and Gins, Robert Fludd, David Crawford, Joshua Citarella, William Pope.L, and Haim Steinbach. Philosophy, physics, theology, and media theory are traversed and involved in order to understand art differently so that it might be made to matter more."

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1245577658