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"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."
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Keywords
- Art & design styles: Conceptual art
- Art & design styles: from c 1960
- History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
- History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
- The arts
- The arts: general issues
- thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6C Styles (C)::6CK Conceptualism
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
- Theory of Art
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DOI: 10.21983/P3.0327.1.00Editions