No. 14 (2021): Alea. Artistic Practices and Modes of Subjectivation

Alea

Edited by Benoît Monginot, Stefano Oliva and Sébastien Wit

Although acknowledging that any artistic project is necessarily exceeded by the alterity of determining causes is quite a mundane way of representing the artistic fact (one thinks of the various theories of divine inspiration, of involuntary ideological conditioning, of the postulation of the existence of a logic of the unconscious, etc.), the implication of chance as the root cause of a work raises a critical issue since it rules out any interpretation of the work either as a manifestation of a truth that would have been pre-existing in god, or as a social or psychoanalytical determination of the forms produced and interpreted. In other words, the recognition or claiming of a measure of chance seems to imply modes of signifiance for which the identification of a project becomes problematic.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/14.2021
Published: 2021-03-15

Introduction

I. Form and alea in the performing arts

II. Touch the code: processes and alea

III. Contingent writings - case and literature in the Twentieth century

IV. Coda: les jeux sont faits

V. Varia: Focus on Guillaume Artous Bouvet