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    Some Ways of Making Nothing

    Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art

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    Author(s)
    Cloninger, Curt
    Collection
    ScholarLed
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    "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."
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46850
    Keywords
    apophasis, conceptual art, art theory, Arakawa & Gins, David Crawford, Haim Steinbach, Joshua Citarella, Robert Fludd, William Pope.L
    DOI
    10.21983/P3.0327.1.00
    ISBN
    9781953035370, 9781953035387
    Publisher
    punctum books
    Publisher website
    https://punctumbooks.com/
    Publication date and place
    Brooklyn, NY, 2021
    Imprint
    Ecologies Book
    Classification
    Theory of art
    History of art
    Conceptualism
    Pages
    462
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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