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The book contains a collection of essays by scholars and artists from a range of different fields including art, art history, architectural theory and philosophy. The essays are based on papers given at a symposium in Copenhagen in June 2008 and refer to the following considerations: When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture, vital questions regarding their appearance arise. These are not simply questions about what appears, also what does not, i.e. what withdraws when works are experienced and created. How do we cope with this withdrawal, with latencies that escape concretization? What are the productive paradoxes associated hereto and how do they influence the processes of making? Based on multiple discourses on these subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture and philosophy draw up new challenges, especially with regard to the creative practices. Within and between these positions emerge potentials for modes of thinking and doing with a new sensitivity.With contributions by Michael Asgaard Andersen and Henrik Oxvig, Renaud Barbaras, Andrew Benjamin, Olafur Eliasson, Sanford Kwinter, David Leatherbarrow, Martin Seel, David Summers, and Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
List of contents
Michael Asgaard Andersen and Henrik Oxvig: Paradoxes of Appearing.- David Summers: The Archaeology of Appearance as Paradox.- Sven-Olov Wallenstein: Hegel and the Grounding of Architecture.- Andrew Benjamin: On Abstraction: Notes on Mondrian and Hegel.- Martin Seel: The Appearance of Spaces in Film.- Olafur Eliasson: Frictional Encounters.- Sanford Kwinter: Beat Science.- Renaud Barbaras: Invisibility at the Heart of Appearance: On Perception, Art and Desire.- David Leatherbarrow: Facing and Spacing.
