The Conundrum of Control : : Making Sense Through Artistic Practices / / Stefano Velotti.

• VerfasserIn: Velotti, Stefano, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (169 pages)

Various forms of control play a central role in our lives. Yet the nature of control is a difficult conundrum to probe. Art practices help us to make sense of questions and paradoxes related to the intertwining of control and non-control by putting it on display.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What This Essay Is About -- 1.2 What Is Meant by "Control"? -- 1.3 Adventure as a Condition of Human Experience -- 1.4 Do Control and Non-control Still Communicate? -- 2 What Does Art Do? -- 2.1 A Divorce? Two Theses -- 2.2 Art as a Space for Operational Experimentation -- 3 Case Studies -- 3.1 Tehching Hsieh: Presenting Life -- 3.1.1 "These Days Anything Is Art" -- 3.1.2 "The Artist" -- 3.1.3 "Hsieh's Artworks Are Haunted by the Law" -- 3.1.4 (Out of) Control? -- 3.1.5 The "Cage Piece" -- 3.1.6 "I Don't Really Blur Art and Life" -- 3.1.7 "Time Clock Piece" -- 3.1.8 "The Power of Art Is Leaning toward the Exploration of Essences" -- 3.1.9 "We Will Never Touch" -- 3.1.10 What Trajectory? -- 3.1.11 Works as Oracles? -- 3.2 Thomas Hirschhorn: Displaying the Incommensurable -- 3.2.1 Premise -- 3.2.2 "I Love to Do Collages" -- 3.2.3 A Collage "Escapes Control" -- 3.2.4 "Untere Kontrolle" -- 3.2.5 "Headlessness" -- 3.2.6 Shame -- 3.2.7 The Artist's Responsibility for the Uncontrollable -- 3.2.8 Pixelation and Incommensurability -- 3.2.9 Displaying and Judging -- References.