The Object as a Process

Essays Situating Artistic Practice

Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, German A. Duarte, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, German A. Duarte

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9783837661149
• eBook ISBN:
  9783839461143
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Art General
• Index: Social Sciences

How does artistic practice lead to the production of knowledge? How does, in turn, artistic knowledge relate to its material base? How does contingent materiality guide the artist towards finding form and developing a statement? This volume is dedicated to the object as a process in order to offer new insights into the ways the object – broadly construed, comprising digital and other non-classical objects – becomes an active element in artistic practice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Speaking of Things – An Introduction
• The Autonomous Aesthetic of Allure: Mary Bauermeister’s Needless Needles and Graham Harman’s Object Philosophy
• Simply things
• Origins and Ends: Understanding the Medium of Painting According to Heidegger’s Truth
• Object as Symbol: Baudrillard’s Thanatopoietic Form
• Co‑Production: Towards a Relational Ontology of Aesthetic Objects
• Correspondences: Exploring the Echoes of Jack Spicer’s Poetics in the Paintings of Matt Connors
• The Object of Non‐Aesthetics
• Solid Gifts
• Massimo Bartolini’s Untitled Untitled (2001)
• The Lure of Absence: Can there be Process without Artists?
• A noisy love affair: The Language of Things in the Works of Mark Leckey and Musa paradisiaca
• The photographic multiples of Joseph Beuys as an extension of himself
• Obsolescence and reinvention: the case study of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva
• A Two‐Way Mirror: Narcissism and Surveillance from the Closed Circuit to the Network
• Shape of Things, Shapes of Time
• El Anatsui
• Authors