READ Eflux Journal #24 –
Hito Steyerl – In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective about Art
- thinking about contemporary
- post – modernism -had currency, doubted, not useful way of thinking
- is our own work contemporary?
- Field of Fine Art diagram again -think about this to contextualist my own practice – crossovers and divergence
- 2016 – think of Turner painting – it is difficult/problematic for us to contextualise contemporary art as we are in it
- think of being in a field and seeing from our perspective – but to observe in ariel form we can see the plan
- therefore – really can only historically contextualise
- Proposition – when thinking of the FA diagram – consider one of timelessness
- Time is normally thought of as linear and dividable – causing problematic terms
- Michael Serres – philosopher – talking about time and history – Historical Time – cause of many problems
- The idea of stability for artists
- idea of foundation is obsolete
- idea that there is no foundation
- that our beginning of practice is unstable – distinguishes between classical and modern – now
FREEFALL
- WHAT is contemporary Post Modern? – Freefall?
- look at Hito Steyerl writing
- Epistime – rigorous way of thinking – style of way of thinking
- think of pictorial space – importance of vanishing point mirrored by viewing spot
- Steyerl discusses entwinement of viewer and maker – robs viewer of freedom – suggests we need to see negative aspects of this
– Michel Foucault – philosophical aesthetics – look at chapter on Diego Velazquez (1656) – Las Medians
- our experience of this is problematic as the viewing point is already occupied – complications of perspective arise
- this is the first painting to question and unravel possibilities, open up the uncanny
- implied stability is becoming unstable – lack of foundation