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Objects on stage (notes from pre-and post-): in this context 'object' should be understood in relation to the concept of 'fractionality'; i.e., the contemporary condition under which most of our experiences are neither real nor imaginary.
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C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
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June 22, 2008
- Author:
- Tupitsyn, Victor
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To begin, I will focus on the Law of Unity and Conflict of Opposites as applied to a variety of constructs, including totality and incompleteness, androgyny and hermaphroditism. (1) These terms should not be confused with one another: whereas androgyny is offered here as a triumph of unity over contradictions--extending to the possibility of symbolic copulation with "oneself" necessary to the reproduction of the totality--the hermaphroditic libido suffers defeat in the attempt to invest itself in itself, since it is unable to overcome the crisis of identification. Unlike the modernist project, from which postmodernism inherited its hermaphroditic incompleteness, androgyny is ...