DIMENSIONS VARIABLE: TEMPORAL AESTHETICS AND THE WORK OF PIERRE HUYGHE Cover Image

ZMIENNOŚĆ WYMIARÓW: ESTETYKA CZASOWOŚCI ORAZ TWÓRCZOŚĆ PIERRE’A HUYGHE’A
DIMENSIONS VARIABLE: TEMPORAL AESTHETICS AND THE WORK OF PIERRE HUYGHE

Author(s): Erin Honeycutt
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Cultural Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwa AGH
Keywords: Pierre Huyghe; time in aesthetics; world-making; metaphysics; contemporary art; dialectics;

Summary/Abstract: In the framework of curator Nicholas Bourriaud’s radicant aesthetics, this essay explores the artwork of Pierre Huyghe who uses time as both his subject and his medium in practices of world-making and journeying to express the complexity of unique experiences of the temporal. Huyghe’s works play on the subject’s dual role in both the creation and inhabiting of a world image, and the way that trajectories of time make their various effects within it. From Benjamin’s dialectical image to Kant’s metaphysical aesthetics, the complexities of perceiving time and time-based encounters in art are analyzed.

  • Issue Year: 15/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 57-70
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English
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