Corporeal Interiority - Vital Vibrancy
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Miles1
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Enrico David
- Publisher
- Michael Werner Gallery
- ISBN
- 9781938809354
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- ‘Corporeal Interiority – Vital Vibrancy’, for the catalogue of Enrico David’s 2017 show with Michel Werner, London, is the headline publication for this Output, supported by several years of extensive research and writing on the work and thinking of the artist.
Published with Michael Werner, London, 2017, ‘Corporeal Interiority’ is the most theorised of my texts on the artist’s work to date, in that it synthesises in a new way many of the existing findings pertaining to how David’s practice is figured. Commissioned by Michael Werner, the essay is concerned with the relationship between drawing and sculpture and, alongside this, a theorisation of the respective concepts related to temporality (memory, loops, kairos, the yet to come, the untimely). Phrases such as ‘eruptive energetics’ are employed in order to draw attention to the notion that the work is a form of non-knowledge that presents affects as opposed to representing concepts. I developed this treatment of David’s work over a period of 8 years, in close consultation with the artist, providing new readings of his practice and artistic context.
My research on David has been available in the public domain since 2014, with the publication of the catalogue essay ‘The Leaping Bones of Enrico David’ by Michael Werner, New York. Extensive discussions with the artist led to the publication in 2015 of a conversation with the artist in the co-authored ‘Enrico “La Caduta” David’, with Silvana press, Milan. In 2018, Flash Art Italy published my feature article, ‘The Logic of the Borderline’ on David’s Venice Biennale contribution, in which I argue for a post-Surrealist reading of the artist’s body of work, extending the enquiry of ‘Corporeal Interiority’.
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