Artistic Intensity: Redescribing Redundant Dualism
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Neil1
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Theory Art Practices
- Publisher
- ArtEZ Press
- ISBN
- 9789491444395
- 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
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter is a continuation of Neil’s research into the long-running discourse on tensions between the components of a dualist structure for ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ in art and design. The chapter builds on the work of Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty, James Elkins and Henk Borgdorff to propose an original concept of ‘artistic intensity’. This original conceptual contribution to the field destabilises the normative dualist structure of ‘theory v. practice’, challenging those who would hold the components in parallel, and also those who would argue for an intertwining, and, thus, an inevitable continued co-existence of both components. Artistic intensity is presented as the pragmatic outcome of a full folding together of both concepts into a singular, indivisible form and practice.
Artistic intensity is posited, then, as a novel means of progressing discourse past the lingering interest in, and antagonism towards, ‘theory + practice’, in order to allow a starting point beyond that redundant dualism. The chapter does something quite different from the work of those cited, as it gives a rationale and a demonstration of a ritual (to use Elkins’s term) for understanding and indeed teaching artistic intensity as a novel post-Cartesian position for art and design.
‘Artistic Intensity: Redescribing Redundant Dualism’ was published alongside contributions from Sher Doruff, Jeroen Fabius, David Mabb, Suhail Malik, Louisa Minkin, Emily Orley, Hans Ulrich Reck, Daniel Rubinstein, Alex Schady, P. A. Skantze, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Peter Sonderen, and others, in Theory Arts Practices, with Artez Press in the Netherlands, distributed by Idea Books. Neil presented at the book launch symposium in Arnhem in 2017.
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