Has postmodernism really changed the way the artist relates to their art and environment? Addressing the delicate entanglements between the ethical and the material, this book explores how ethics have figured in the generation of art and images in the 21st century.
Starting from the premise that in the Anthropocene the work cannot rest upon its separation from the world, this book develops new ethical thought that acknowledges art and film in their material and immaterial environment. In drawing on new materialism and continental philosophy, the chapters prove just how relative ethics become when applied to artistic creation.
Questioning the ethicalities at play in the relations between the human artist, the art, non-human beings and the environment, practitioners contemplate the singular entanglements of relations and non-relations before, during or after a work of art or film comes into being.
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List of Contributors
Introduction: Ethical Materialities and Material Ethicalities, Silke Panse (Reader in Film, Art and Philosophy, University for the Creative Arts, UK)
Part One: Creative Ethics and the Materialities of Affectual Relations
1. Spinoza’s Affectual Ethics: Causing, Not Making, Silke Panse (Reader in Film, Art and Philosophy, University for the Creative Arts, UK)
2. The Power of Being Affected, Mikhail Lylov (Artist and Curator, Germany)
3. Why I find it Unethical to Write about Myself as an Artist, Mike Marshall (Artist, University for the Creative Arts, UK)
4. Ideal Work Conditions: Reviving Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Politics of Labor and Care, Lauren van Haaften-Schick (Art Historian and Curator, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University, USA)
Part Two: Painting beyond the Frame, between Humans and across Species
5. Ethical Issues with Small Abstract Paintings, Joan Key (Painter, University for the Creative Arts, UK)
6. Peasants in the Artist’s Studio: Ethics in Cézanne’s Paintings of Provençal Labourers, Jon Kear (Independent Art Historian and Author, Italy and UK)
7. Ant-ic Actions, Formica’s Forms: An Experiential Exploration of Art with Ants, Fiona MacDonald (Artist, Feral Practice, UK)
Part Three: More-than-Moving-Images
8. Becoming Extinct (Wild Grass): Exploring More-than-Human Temporalities in Russian Steppes, Elke Marhöfer (Filmmaker and Artist, Italy and Germany)
9. Onscreen Pleasures and Off-Screen Guilt: Minimizing Ecological Erasure and Material Complicity in Moving-Image Art, Erin Espelie (Filmmaker and Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
10. Fearful Symmetry, Phillip Warnell (Filmmaker and Associate Professor, University of Lincoln, UK)
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