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The event of disorientation: artistic methods of immanent critique (2019)

Scott Andrew Elliott

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Through stories recounting experiences of disorientation and the process of reorientation, potentials are found for rethinking our relation to built surroundings. Engaging with art historical examples of architectural art installations that use methods repetition and replication, disorientation is approached as a catalyst for a process of ‘immanent critique’. This presents a way to critically engage with and inflect what is happening in the moment while remaining within the immediacy of that moment. This holds the potential for a participant in the event to inflect the event with one’s own implicated agency. The unfolding event is redirected, and novelty can emerge. The artworks of Mike Nelson, Gregor Schneider and Glenn Seator are discussed as sharing methods of artistic practice that catalyse immanent critique through their disorienting installations. Through a discussion of a selection of art installations, this paper proposes how employing methods of architectural repetition or doppelgängers can result in a catalytic disorientation. It is within this experience or event of disorientation that an immanent critique can take place, and where potentials for change can be taken up.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsInstallation Art, architecture, perception
date14/01/2018
published14/06/2019
last modified14/06/2019
statuspublished
share statusprivate
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/423399/558445
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.423399
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue10. Catalyses


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423408 BWSchneider_HausUr_1995_ur12_rheydt_04 Gregor Schneider All rights reserved
423409 BWseator_1561_exterior Glen Seator All rights reserved
423410 BWseator_approach Glen Seator All rights reserved
474313 BWi_imposter_courtyard Mike Nelson/Gallery 303 All rights reserved
474314 BWi_imposter_room1 Mike Nelson/Gallery 303 All rights reserved
474315 BWi_imposter_room2 Mike Nelson/Gallery 303 All rights reserved
474316 MN The Coral Reef, 2000_3 Mike Nelson/Matt's Gallery All rights reserved
474317 BWschneider_familie Gregor Schneider All rights reserved
474318 BWschneider_haus_2 Gregor Schneider All rights reserved
474319 schneider_haus_schlafen Gregor Schneider All rights reserved
474320 BWseator_1561_interior Glen Seator All rights reserved
474321 BWseator_within_studs Glen Seator All rights reserved
474322 BWThe Coral Reef, 2000_1 Mike Nelson/Matt's Gallery All rights reserved
474323 BWThe Coral Reef, 2000_2 Mike Nelson/Matt's Gallery All rights reserved
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475191 BWapproach_exterior Capp Street Project Archive at California College of the Arts Libraries,San Francisco, California. All rights reserved
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475357 BWapproach_streetdetail_reproduced Capp Street Project Archive at California College of the Arts Libraries,San Francisco, California. All rights reserved
549753 Visitor sketch of Nelson's "The Coral Reef" Klat Magazine (Milan) All rights reserved
549754 BWwhite_cube_DukeSt_exterior White Cube Gallery All rights reserved
549755 BWglen-seator-within-the-line-of-the-studs-gallery White Cube Gallery All rights reserved
549756 map of nelson MK Maya Kowalska All rights reserved
549933 BWgagosian_exterior Richard Meier Partners Architects All rights reserved
555318 I, imposter drawing Scott Elliott All rights reserved
558440 aubert effect Creative Commons licence CC BY 4.0 All rights reserved
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559644 Nelson_I_Imposter_map Scott Elliott All rights reserved
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