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Poetics and Place - The Architecture of Sign, Subjects and Site (Hardcover)
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Poetics and Place - The Architecture of Sign, Subjects and Site (Hardcover)
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How do artworks 'speak', and how do we 'listen' and respond? These
questions underlie the investigation here of Roni Horn's Pair
Object III: For Two Rooms, Emily Dickinson's later manuscripts,
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Passages Paysages, Fiona Templeton's Cells
of Release and Jenny Holzer's Lustmord. The tenets of critical
performance, art-writing and site-writing inform the critical
method used in Poetics and Place. Each chapter is dedicated to one
of these five artworks, and is arranged in order to fulfill three
main objectives: to understand how the artworks generate meaning
through a material poetics in relation to place; to develop a
critical methodology for engaging with them; and to investigate
their ethical potential and political imperative. All of this,
ultimately, facilitates the development of a triadic relation
between theoretical concepts of sign, subjects and site at the
crossover between poetry, art and spatial practices. This extends
each artwork beyond the dyad of a critical encounter in order to
offer - and allow others to grasp - an appreciation of how the
artwork figures meaningfully, as well as configures meaning, in the
wider world of objects and things. The book concludes with a
discussion of the ethics of reading from the second person, opening
up a debate concerning the role of empathy within contemporary,
politically-engaged practices in art and poetry.
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