“Dhaka Art Summit seeks to generate multiple international centres in a globalised art world, built from the rich, yet often ignored (or worse co-opted) art histories outside the canonical Western traditions.”
Category: Art
[Essay] Painting Anxiety: Berthe Morisot’s ‘Julie Daydreaming’ — Connie Sjödin
“Lit from the viewer’s direction, the painting invents a singular viewpoint and even predicts the camera flash, freezing the image against ‘time’s relentless melt’, as in Susan Sontag’s evocative phrase.”
[Essay] Bacon’s Hysteria, van Gogh’s Shoes: Deleuze and the Problem of Affect — Josh Mcloughlin
“In Bacon’s hysterical painting and Proust’s literature of memory, sensation works to peel apart affects and bodies, unmooring physical entities from emotional resonances, and ensuring that Deleuze’s attempt to grasp an ‘interminable presence’ remains frustrated”
[Essay] Grayson Perry and the Politics of Taste — Jonathan Webster
“Perry submerges himself in these cultures without judgment and, through his art, communicates and legitimizes alternative forms of cultural capital.”
[Essay] ‘Becoming-Animal’: Idle Bodies in Marie Darrieussecq and Lucien Freud — Susannah Farrell
“In Darrieussecq and Freud, the possibility of becoming is tied to the in-human and to nothingness, so that idleness and animality, no longer nihilistic, render affirmation.”
[Essay] On the Aesthetic, Psychoanalysis and Dasein — Josh Mcloughlin
“Like theory, Dasein emerges as the allegory of an allegory.”
[Essay] Consuming Fragments: Performance Art and Spectatorship — Jasper Llewelyn
“Although championed as the quintessential practice of contemporary postmodern practice, recent trends for disrupting the spectator’s viewing process through fragmentation are based on a long history of performance and installation.”
[Essay] Dérive: Situationist Architecture and the Modern City — Matilda Roberts
“For Raoul Vaneigem, creativity, love and play are life’s nutrients – the only real ways in which we can participate in the world.”
[Essay] Art and Ideology: Clark, Courbet, and Althusser — Josh Mcloughlin
“Courbet makes visible (donner à voir) the interpellation of rural subjectivity not only in the gaze of urban bourgeois ideology but in the equally culpable stare of genre painting itself.”
