Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonisation and subsequent dissolution. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and 'raw' phenomenology of Jean Baudrillard as a challenge to a system of disappearance. Focusing on the otherness of space to prevent its ultimate dissolution, Lent promotes a spatial practice of radical alterity. Examining ideas of disappearance put forth by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, he utilises art as a means for investigating loss of potentiality and experience through the representation of space, shifting their ideas - originally ascribed to objects - into a new emphasis. This book ultimately attempts to break a cyclical system that causes everything to disappear into representation and equivalency.
- ISBN10 3837635740
- ISBN13 9783837635744
- Publish Date 15 December 2016 (first published 5 December 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Transcript Verlag
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 190
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9783837635744