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

Alea

Edited by Benoît Monginot, Stefano Oliva e 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