Tabula Rasa
Marta Cervera Gallery: from 28/04/1911
(Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Lara Almarcegui, Mark Hagen, Jay Heikes, Joanna Malinowska, Mateo Maté, Clara Montoya, Adolfo Schlosser, Erin Shirreff)
"The real possibility of utopia is joined in a rare summit with the possibility of the disaster. "
Adorno
If reality is always a political decision, think about art is to think of a relationship, of course, policy-with reality and, above all, think about the future. And, at this point, think the future is, first of all, imagine.
... just imagine what more difficult for us to carry out given that policy-and if it is, there is no alternative to the hyper. Benjamin and tried to warn us, while not at all utopian his thought of the need to break or interrupt the continuity between present and future, thus, stimulate progress that had the ability to successfully overcome the enormous power of the system: the knowledge of the future before us. As Jameson argues , "the political function of utopia is to interrupt and / or break our inherited ideas about the future: that future precast break."
therefore need to rethink the patent in political terms, the reality is cut off from root to this power of divination, almost shamanic, the system knows just what will be the future even before us. The game balancing, yet so that it is almost indecipherable, is glaring and well noticeable, having replaced the conatus of Spinoza the libidinal wish is now that each person-each individual-is persevering in what he wants and, more precisely, what the system do you want. The mapping is clear, the topography of desire of the good work and well-laid rails on which it is impossible to derail. Deleuze would say , the effect precedes the cause.
So, our reality is just sad and bleak: either we are unable to imagine a better future ( Jameson), or the only thing we can imagine is the disaster (Sontag ).
In this situation, the art emphasizes the need to focus all the time wondering what I could imagine that there are possibilities, "ethical" for the emergence of utopia. If art is and should be-politician is precisely this self-reflexive question that launches itself and it takes place in constant contact with a reality that transforms politically. In recent times, perhaps, also Rancière nothing utopian thinker who has had this clearer relationship Unambiguous-but-with the political problem: "politics is about what we see and what we can say about it, about who has the power to see and to say the quality on the properties of space and potential time ", being, thus, closely linked to specific forms of sharing sensitive powers of each.
As is well known, perform this task has been quite easy to an art that was in representing his greatest ally. Thus, the art has been understood as the place where the order is placed to be memorized. To follow Rancière a little longer or the ethical regime of images, where images were regulated according to their adherence to an ethos generally or in the representative system, supported by the pragmatic principle of mimesis-the art had a problem to run in parallel with the setting of being true to reality. Proof of this is ineffable concepts that until recently functioned as normative for art: authenticity, auratic, etc.
however, was to enter the image-motion scene when the deals of the sensible, then linked to grand narratives, become a wealth of data and information that, until to date, has managed to turn reality into a hiperealidad and presence in a telepresence anchored in the overall time ciberpantalla. If the image-static refers to a definitive ontology for the permanent repetition of his esenciante be always the same, in the time-image, however, is the difference that occurs in the same area of \u200b\u200bthe visual sign. So now, the sign is dislocated, the bracketed reference, the metaphor does not work, just allegory.
So, if reality has been subsumed in process simulation, telepresence and hiperealidad, art has been refer to relations with reality as complicated and sterile, as mentioned above, can barely imagine anything other than the accident, the final catastrophe. If the real is called into question (and not just for the virtuality and simulation, but the Freudian unconscious and Marxism), how can art continue his political work, do not forget this ever-real relationship with that minimized and starving, how can ultimately further their art work in this post-historic era and postutópica?
Obviously, at this point, all questions must be answered with a resounding yes. Because it is right now, now when the real is not just that there is nothing left but even the appearance is now so advanced that allows reflexivity on itself (ie, the ghost of the ghost), when the utopian possibilities of art must ADvenir sobrepotenciadas.
In the limit (again Rancière), if the representation has been misunderstood as a normative principle postulates that allowed-according to their level of similarity with reality-the introduction of a system for art, is now with the dissolution of the 'real' with which bought, when the misunderstanding can be reconfigured and go, once and for all, the core of the purposes pursued by the art. Now, with the final crisis of representation has come to reveal that the representation was not operating as early naive analogy, in short, neither represented nor imitated, or, much less expressed. Now the representation refers to its own event running as a life experience that problematizes human relations / world.
If Baudelaire, a pioneer of modernity, I knew the mission of art was to go to meet the event, now is the actual event which, become real, pile it all.
The possibilities, therefore, are extraordinary, chances of succumbing, they know that the accident will come from the hands of this profusion of images, the crack of the images that would Virilio - or emancipation, they also know that is now in the nullity in which reality has been transformed, when art, moved away from the representation dela congratulations, you can choose to recover as hyper-visual operator. Now, finally, everything is at stake.
In short, it is now when art really treating them with the implementation of the ephemeral moment that brings the time-image (and even digital), burying the root of his concept to the core of their relationship with politics refocusing the vision-the 'acts of seeing' that emphasizes Brea in relation to the 'speech acts' - in relation to the capitalist rationality is weaving a network of possible / impossible to go feeding and forming a field ideological desiring operates by presenting a future as something obvious and agree, can carry out the necessary money to create innovative relationships between past, present and the future.
This exposure Marta Cervera Gallery, entitled ' Tabula rasa' and excellently curated by Francesco Giaveri , some of these assumptions to stand at the 'between' that separates the remembrance of a ancestral home and the anticipation of an apocalyptic future imagined just to match that in this limit, the inframince Duchamp would separate these moments, the differences are rather few, that the irreconcilable contradictions of reality that people refer to a recall where present and in each 'act of seeing' in each artistic experience is tabula rasa.
There is much in these parts Heidegger and interpreting poetic and somewhat irrational exposure. Echoing most of the second period, the understanding of being part of Dasein is given in time and refers to an event by which Dasein be released to instituting an opening in which man comes to terms with himself and with other entities. Thus, the existence of Dasein refers to a dwelling in the event-Ereignis ", at the opening of the being that gives him the understanding of their own existence temporalized. Thus, the experiences of Dasein refers to a recall "Andenken" what has already been continued to allow that to be still open in their understanding enabling clarity.
The past is not only and merely past, but a live broadcast that we are being constantly given and fully articulated three dimensions of temporality of Dasein being open-projects in the future, to be cleared by the clear and that allows us to understand.
So methodologically different, but matching results, Adorno, another insurgent irracionalsimo need for aesthetics, he argues that "being art always refers to what was already opening," postulating that once it's determined where the denial art holds its antinomy foundational art wants and needs to be utopia, but its real functional link the resulting obstacle then that "only through its absolute negativity, the art says the unsayable, utopia."
An art condemned to silence and speechlessness, an art of remembrance, an art ultimately chooses not no more for the emancipation, for it is well known regressive nature of such movements, but be against himself, against his despotic rationality wins against raised in the name of culture, which always is barbarism, which can serve to protect the unnamable that Beckett was thus already , which is not satisfied with the truth, but that combines the look in the direction of Adorno that "art is looking at being unable to escape the suggestion of a meaning in the midst of the foolishness."
Ultimately, perhaps now more than ever and hope for the sake of reconciliation, il faut continuer. Perhaps there pointing to this great exhibition, giving a complete realize that, deep down, there is always a progressive denial of meaning, and only because of this nonsense can still guarantee a hope, a utopia, and thus subvert the time-identical with the hyper capital that aims to seal any future possibility.