Speculation Vishmidt Marina
Speculation Vishmidt Marina A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own…
Specifikacia Speculation Vishmidt Marina
Speculation Vishmidt Marina
A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character.Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life whose key instantiations are art and finance. Artistic autonomy, and the self-legislation of the space of art, have often been seen as the freedom to speculate wildly on material and social possibilities. Both are premised on the power of contingency, temporality, and experimentation in the creation (and capitalization) of possible worlds.
In this context, the artist is seen as a speculative subject and a paragon of creativity--the diametrical