This book focuses on permeations between art and theory. It examines the artistic aspect of aesthetic theory and the theoretical aspect of artistic practice and proposes specific ways of intertwining them. The book couples dialogic forms with a “dictionary of other knowledges” that takes an essayistic and unsystematic approach to putting together practices and methods of contemporary aesthetic production. An alternative aesthetic is sketched out on the basis of keywords like test and flag, situate and stutter, transform, forget, and dissipate. This aesthetic relinquishes its interpretive sovereignty over art and exposes itself instead to a process of transformation through artistic knowledge. Combining modes of speculation and fragmentary, unstable, and elusive approaches with queerfeminist, decolonial, and radically poetic ones, the book offers insights into collaborative work with artists in the contact zones where contemporary aesthetics connects and sunders.
Christoph Brunner is Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Media and Technology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Kathrin Busch is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Berlin University of the Arts. Knut Ebeling is Professor of Media Theory and Aesthetics at the Weißensee School of Art and Design Berlin.
