The Changing Constitution of the Present

Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity

The Changing Constitution of the Present
Jacob Lund
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2 Aug 2022 US
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9783956796401
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How our experience of presence, time, and history are articulated in contemporary artistic practices. Our present is defined by contemporaneity, understood as the interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. The many and various times appearing today do not exist merely in parallel with each other, simultaneously. They interconnect and are brought to bear on the same present, forming a kind of planetary present, and-at least in principle-a global sharing of time, even though the possibility of taking part in and sharing these interconnections is most unevenly distributed. In this collection of essays Jacob Lund explores how, in recent decades, the conditions for politically engaged art and aesthetic practice, for questioning the present, have changed, based on the assumption that our historical present and its temporal quality differs significantly from previous presents. The Changing Constitution of the Present analyses how changes in our experiences of presence, time, and history are articulated in contemporary artistic practices.
Jacob Lund is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communications at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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ISBN-13: 9783956796401
Published: 2 Aug 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 114mm
Weight: 369g
Pages: 208

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