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At Home In The Museum: Pierre Loti, Self-Collected, Self-Possessed, Anthony Purdy
At Home In The Museum: Pierre Loti, Self-Collected, Self-Possessed, Anthony Purdy
Anthony Purdy
Suspended between metaphor and metonymy, between the spatial logic of the collection and the scenario of the personal that was the life of its owner, Pierre Loti's house in Rochefort participates in the same transvestism as his novels. This article explores the house museum as a heterotopia in which the synchronous time of the collection is open to disruption by the souvenir's reference to past events, to the biography of the collector.
Bilateral Blogging, Lucas Ihlein
Bilateral Blogging, Lucas Ihlein
Lucas M Ihlein
In this discussion I consider the social and aesthetic functions of participatory visual art practice, with specific reference to my recent project "Bilateral Kellerberrin". Nicholas Bourriaud, in his book Relational Aesthetics, argues that the current era is characterised by the “reification” of social interactions. For Bourriaud, everyday interactions have become commodified and transformed into products which can be sold back to us. Bourriaud sees a role for contemporary visual art in resisting this commodification of everyday experience. He asserts that art is able to bloom in the gaps which are not controlled or mediated by commerce. Some art practices, then, …