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Art Beyond Anthropocentrism

其他書名	Part I. Artifacts on the Loose : Part II. Models for an Object-oriented Worldview
出版	School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1MZ7oAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Framed by materialist, poststructuralist, and theory, along with more recent work in object-oriented philosophy, this thesis posits alternative, anti-hierarchical configurations of human subjects and non-human objects. I interpret works by media and technology-based artists Shana Moulton, Paula Gaetano Adi, Dunne & Raby, AugerLoizeau, and Lindsey French as models for thinking in an object-oriented mindset. In order to do so, I will expose how these works implicate either the artist or viewer as one object among many and deny a single perceptive-subject or protagonist. I will include in my analysis recent exhibitions that have focused on object-oriented ontology and related philosophies as a theme, such as Animism (2010) at M HKA, Antwerp, Talk To Me (2011) at MoMA, New York, and Field Static (2012) at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, as instances where art is used as a test-site for envisioning these ideologies. In the age of the Anthropocene, as we begin to recognize the extreme effects that human activity has had on the Earth's ecosystems, reflection on the relationship between humans and other objects becomes increasingly urgent in terms of ethics and ecology. I see the potential reconfigurations posed by these works as imperfect but impactful steps towards configuring a less anthropocentric worldview; one in which humans assume a less hierarchical view of their ontological status among other entities, and as a result become more cognizant of their effects on the world as a web of relations which they both affect and are affected by. As a complement to this investigation, the foreword to this thesis provides a scenario of shifting boundary lines between humans and other objects in the form of theory-rooted speculative fiction. At the dawn of 2013, a group of 22 objects escape from the holdings of a prestigious art institution. What results is a discussion around the formulation of new terminology to consider objects and subjects, the formulation of new modes of communication between people and other things, and steps towards a more object-oriented world.