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Título
Facing the Real: Timeless Art and Performative Time
Autor(es)
Palabras clave
Aesthetic subjects
Arte comtemporáneo
Arte de la performance
Materiales efímeros
Vanitas (Arte)
Contemporary art
Performative time
Ephemeral materials
Vanitas
Fecha de publicación
2015
Editor
European Society for Aesthetics (Friburgo, Suiza)
Citación
González García, C. (2015). Facing the Real: Timeless Art and Performative Time. Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, 7, pp. 246-258.
Abstract
[EN]This contribution analyzes the uses of time linked to materials
in contemporary art practices. In the first part of the argument I consider
the significance of the contemporary turning away from the normative idea
that time should be external or non-intrinsic to fine or visual artworks. The
change in mentality concerning the value of time in these works of art has
been especially transforming among artists and opened up new opportunities
for their creative work. I am particularly interested in the possibilities of
an aesthetic translation of the human experience of time into the so-called
spatial artworks through the intervention of changeable, non-permanent
or non-lasting materials. When time ceases to be seen as a destructive element
whose intervention should be avoided, or as a simple subject that the
picture tries to depict, it can then be regarded as any other artistic material
or as working inside the artistic materials as an active element that
can attain a high impact on the final solution of the artistic process. Consequently,
artists, viewers, art conservation institutions and so on ought to
acknowledge that the temporal nodes should always count as a significant
aesthetic component and that the performative temporal dimension is intimately
linked to the amplification of the material possibilities in the creative
process. In connection with this, I discuss the blurring of the difference
between the real and the representational in art practices and how that affects
the very presence of temporal dimensions. The paper concludes with
the proposal of a new temporal level in works of art that modifies (our temporal
understanding of) the identity of the work.
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ISSN
1664 – 5278
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