Tempi diseguali. Coevità e contemporaneità in arte
The author, an anthropologist, argues that ethnically-marked contemporary art (such as African, Aboriginal, or Native contemporary art) is included in the contemporary in the form of Agamben’s exception: i.e., according to the logic of exclusive inclusion, which mirrors what Dumont defined as «l’eng...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2016-04-01
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| Series: | Rivista di Estetica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1041 |
| Summary: | The author, an anthropologist, argues that ethnically-marked contemporary art (such as African, Aboriginal, or Native contemporary art) is included in the contemporary in the form of Agamben’s exception: i.e., according to the logic of exclusive inclusion, which mirrors what Dumont defined as «l’englobement du contraire» in his notion of hierarchical oppositions. By examining some recent examples, the author contends that a systematic «denial of coevalness» (Fabian), mostly achieved by applying certain categorial pairs respectively to unmarked/marked contemporary art, is still operating in current curatorial discourse. This type of discourse surreptitiously reaffirms the cultural difference of ethnically-marked contemporary art, and of artists creating it, precisely in praising the “disjunctive” and “different time” of such art as a marker of its contemporaneity. The article ends with a plea for a critical reassessment of the dichotomies qualifying the anthropological dualism we/others within the dominant historical-artistic paradigm, advocating for the existence of different coeval aesthetics, not solely pertaining to what, for us, is art. |
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| ISSN: | 0035-6212 2421-5864 |