ART AS RESISTANCE AGAINST FACTS (2008)
(Abstract)What are the conditions for art? Under what preconditions does something resembling art exist? How is an art work possible? Obviously, for an art work, for its appearance and existence, like any event, there are its conditions. It never happens or eventuates in a space free of meanings and multiple codification. An art work has to assert its reality in the midst of an existing reality. It asserts itself through its form, its appearing and its duration (no matter how ephemeral or precarious it seems to be in certain cases) in the over-codified space of established facts and laws. Everyone knows that the art work is not an entity in itself, not an architecture without windows. Doubtless it necessarily includes persistence in the here-and-now of the one constituted reality which is our world. The existence and persistence and appearance of the art work comprises 1) an opening to the world of facts, 2) self-assertion within it, 3) affirmative resistance in the here-and-now universe which has to remain its situational reality.