OBJECT ABUSE
did this piece of drawing for Object Abuse art project at Spinach:
a central London space, run from September 21st to December 15th 2013,
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Object Abuse http://www.objectabuse.com/
has been set up to provide a platform for
people to discuss,
provoke and question the very nature and orientation
of objects.
The aim is to readdress the unquestioned drives of our
collective pursuits,
to turn the tables on the object-subject dynamic.
This investigation’s relevance is reflected in recent
developments in philosophy,
shifts in our socio-cultural landscape and
is finding expression in the visual arts.
This questioning of our
human-centric perspective is reflected through
current ideas found in
the works of Bruno Latour, Graham Harman,
Quentin Meillassoux, Anselm
Franke and others.
The question: what exactly is object abuse is by no
means obvious,
when you think about it, who is to say the object in
question is passive and not active?
Also it is worth asking where does
the form of abuse originate from?
What qualifies abuse, is it
quantifiable, can we identify subtler variations?
And for that matter;
what is an object, or rather can we say what is not
an object… with any
real certainty?
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