A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Moving Matters of Contemporary Art – Three New Materialist Propositions
Subtitle: Three New Materialist Propositions
Authors: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
Publisher: Orion Art
Publishing place: Belgrad
Publication year: 2014
Journal: AM: Art and Media
Issue: 5
First page : 42
Last page: 55
eISSN: 2406-1654
Fashioning a new materialist agenda, this essay calls for sensitivity to subtly moving matters present in the processes of making and encountering art. Otherwise, it claims, we will end up with seriously restricted understandings of art’s capabilities. Indeed, we might even miss art’s most inventive and moving offering: how it can change our thinking-feeling. In this essay, I suggest methods of relating to art in more bodily and material terms, and propose concepts that help to point out the materiality of encountering and making art. To make sense of how a new materialist approach might work in the case of contemporary art, I will offer three propositions that revolve around ontology, ethics and politics. These propositions arise from participation with art and are probed and provoked by a close relation to art.