Material Agencies

Bredekamp, Horst; Schäffner, Wolfgang

doi:10.1515/zkg-2020-3001

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“…While there is plenty of research on ruins in Detroit (Apel, 2015;Dobraszczyk, 2017;Kinney, 2016;Pohl, 2019Pohl, , 2021, it has only sparsely looked closer at the materiality of ruins in terms of its agency and active participation in the process of meaning making. However, research in art history and art education has started to move its focus from objects and materials, often applying a new materialist framework that recognizes "the relational, co-creative and ever-evolving connections between all agents" (Jain and Roy, 2022:431; see also Berger and Schlitte, 2021;Bredekamp and Schäffner, 2020;Franinović and Kirschner, 2020;Garber, 2019;Hood and Kraehe, 2017;Lehmann, 2009;Leonard, 2020).…”

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Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Küttel

2024

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Decades of decline, disinvestment, and racism have left Detroit with an abundance of abandoned buildings, ruins, vacant lots, and illicit trash dumps. Though these structures and materials might have forfeited their previous purposes, they can act as catalysts, substances, and co-creators of artworks. The paper is thus interested in examining the intricate interplay between art, space, and materiality in Detroit further. Drawing from the practices of local artists Olayami Dabls and Scott Hocking, the paper adopts a new materialist framework to investigate the dynamic agency of matter in the artistic process. By considering materials as active participants in the production of art and space, the paper seeks to add to the emerging interest in the emancipation and meaning making of material in art as well as cultural geography's engagements with new materialism.

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Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Küttel

2024

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Not Only a Matter of Electricity–Rethinking Materiality with Victor Grippo’s Energía de una papa (1972)

Senkpiel

2023

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In order to consider the materiality of Victor Grippo’s artwork Energía de una papa (1972) more comprehensively than has thus far been the case, the specific characteristics of this case study are initially discussed against the background of the relationship between materiality and conceptual art. In a further step, the artwork’s agency is questioned, and it is regarded in the context of positions within new materialism. This is done by utilizing certain aspects of Karen Barad’s concept of “agential realism” in an examination of Grippo’s artwork. Our thesis is that while the Baradian approach is able to explain materiality within the functioning of the case study, the complex embedding of materiality and symbolic factors for the context of the art require an even broader perspective. Finally, the different layers of materiality—the material presence and the immaterial, less tangible aspects—are considered together in order to show their indispensable entanglement in generating the artwork’s meaning. It is not just the potato as food-as-art-material or the voltameter as a ready-made that must be our focus, but all the organic, non-human materials and the non-tangible elements involved in the artistic work, as well as the human being who sets the process in motion.

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Rzecz jako pamięć zewnętrzna. Wokół wystawy „Stan rzeczy” w warszawskim Muzeum Narodowym

Korduba

2022

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Material Agencies

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Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Not Only a Matter of Electricity–Rethinking Materiality with Victor Grippo’s Energía de una papa (1972)

Rzecz jako pamięć zewnętrzna. Wokół wystawy „Stan rzeczy” w warszawskim Muzeum Narodowym

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