'Ongoing Research on a Complex Ecology of Posthuman Art: First Notes on the Artistic Practices of the Living' (original) (raw)

2019, Art in the Anthropocene, Trinity College, Dublin

In general, the predominant tendency in the theorisations on posthuman art is to clearly separate the topics concerning art and technology from those concerning the artistic practices of the living. In recent research, I have been working on an articulation that on the one hand can contemplate the specific differences of each one of these practices, but where on the other hand the artistic practices of the living and of new media art can be part of the same landscape, or ecology: that is to say, to be understood and outlined with a methodology that allows to investigate in depth, following Jacques Derrida, that what we share as human animals with the living as a whole is not only a shared passivity and finitude, but also the fact that in the case of human animals this finitude is inseparable from the prosthetic constitution of the machine of language as always already technological beings. Thus, in the present work I propose to deepen the research and analysis of the artistic practices of the living, focusing on concrete cases whose subject of reflection, research and often also of action, is the living independently of the medium used to investigate it. By articulating these lines of research, it will be possible to delineate a complex, if not complete, ecology of posthuman art.