WHAT IS AN ARTWORK? 5TH HAVANA LECTURE: 11 APRIL 2008 CASA DE TANIA BRUGUERA. TEJADILLO 214, E/AGUACATE Y COMPOSTELA, HABANA VIEJA
Paper:1. An ARTWORK is a MANIFESTATION OF CHAOS.
2. CHAOS is the NAME of the INCOMMENSURABLE or FORMLESS.
3. To give FORM to FORMLESSNESS means to PRECISE the CHAOS.
4. To PRECISE THE CHAOS is the same like THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE.
5. There is no ARTWORK beyond THINKING. But to think IN ART and WITH ART - that means by DOING ART - is not REFLEXION. It is MORE THEN REFLEXION. It is a BLIND MOVEMENT OF SELFACCELERATION.
6. I call SELFACCELERATION the DYNAMICS OF BLINDNESS of the SUBJECT OF ART.
7. It is the MOVEMENT towards the dimension of the UNKNOWABLE.
8. The UNKNOWABLE is the CHAOS.
9. The CHAOS marks the LIMIT of the REALITY-SYSTEM.
10. The REALITY-SYSTEM is the ESTABLISHED REALITY-ORDER with its implicit ONTOLOGY.
11. I call it the UNIVERSE OF FACTS.
12. An ARTWORK is IRREDUCIBLE to this UNIVERSE. It allways transgresses the FACTS and its own CONDITIONS. It is beyond what you can UNDERSTAND.
13. It is a MANIFESTATION of the UNKNOWABLE.
14. To do ART means to give PLACE to the UNKNOWABLE.
15. Thats why the SUBJECT OF ART is the SUBJECT OF THE UNKNOWABLE.
16. Thats why ART is not about COMPREHENSION but about CLEARNESS.
17. The SUBJECT OF ART (the ARTIST) is the SUBJECT of ist own EVIDENCES.
18. The EVIDENCE OF ART is the EVIDENCE OF A BLIND SUBJECT. It is ABSOLUTELY DIFFERENT from the EVIDENCE OF FACTS.
19. The ARTWORK is the PLACEHOLDER of a BLIND EVIDENCE.
20. The DECISION FOR ART is the POSSIBLE DECISION for the IMPOSSIBLE.
21. There is a FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN ART & PHILOSOPHY.
22. This FRIENDSHIP contains the SHARED WILL to INVENT NEW THOUGHTS, NEW FORMS, NEW VISIBILITIES.
23. That means to RESIST to the WORLD like it is.