“the work of art is a being of sensation and nothing else: it exists in itself” 164
Consider the work of art as a being of sensation, where sensation is the point between the act of perceiving (by the perceiving subject) and the percept (object of perception.) This in between mediation is the moment of art. It is not material, as material constitutes only its de facto condition; rather it is the duration for which it remains between these states. So the work exists in this duration or the space between percept and perception.
Rather than an object perceived by a subject it is the meeting between ‘sensing’ and ‘sensed.’ (my understanding of this is ‘sensing’ being the moment of experience itself and ‘sensed’ being when we realise or attempt to frame it within our understanding.)
I have been nutting out these ideas in diagram form, as a physical way of addressing the notional. However they are more interesting and seem to make more sense in the process of making, so I’ve started filming myself figuring them out- a form of live thought tracking.
As a bit of a fluke I havealso come across John Rajchman’s writing on diagrammatic practice as a visual strategy that can incorporate the virtual. He uses Foucault & Deleuze’s notion of the diagram as an ‘abstract machine’ able to represent the temporal or fleeting. I’m not to sure my diagrams make that much sense to anyone other than myself but I found this a little reassuring.
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