Termitologie. Czas przyszły uprzedni Agnieszki Kurant
Termitologies. The Previous Future Continuous of Agnieszka Kurant

Summary/Abstract: In her artistic projects, such as “Koniec podpisu” (“The End of the Signature”), Agnieszka Kurant reaches for the conceit of the automaton in order to draw attention to the increasingly topical question of collective authorship. The profoundly Promethean myth of an anthropomorphic or outright animated machine has been from its very onset associated with relativity. At the same time it is fitting to admit that the myth of the individual author is a dynamic phenomenon and its future is uncertain. Today, it evolves rapidly – also owing to invisible laws ruling the market or the development of Artificial Intelligence. Agnieszka Kurant’s leading artistic strategy is “to render visible that which is invisible”, including those causative forces and phenomena. After all, that which is imaginary and mythic – or, as the artist stresses, “fictitious” – impacts reality no less than that which is “real”. Is the epoch of art thus coming to an end?

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