Description
This paper studies a quotation from Henri Michaux concerning the artist’s creative act to examine drawing as articulation. What happens with what we see as a subject in this act, and what does Michaux´s registrations mean for our idea of linear development; is there any potential resistance or revision in these registrations? The quotation is read closely as a piece of literature and is afterwards put in relation to Gorgio Agamben´s idea, infancy. Infancy is a concept, which describes what is on stake where the inarticulate (being) says ‘I am’. By using this concept drawing is defined as the constant genesis of the subject through language. A constant genesis is underlining ‘the now’, and the ‘the now’ is beyond control. On that basis it is put into perspective that the real resistance against the linear development metaphor is found in the art forms that examines the now, since the opposite of linearity is not non-linearity, but the now, the presence.
Emneord: drawing, language, becomings
| Period | 15 Feb 2008 |
|---|---|
| Event title | Non-linear narrative in twentieth and twenty-first century artistic practices |
| Event type | Conference |
| Organiser | A co-operation between Goldsmiths College, Internationales Graduiertenkolleg InterArt / Interart Studies, Freie Universität Berlin and Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies. |
| Location | London, United KingdomShow on map |
Keywords
- drawing
- language
- becomings