The title of the exhibition “The Mystery Areas” is drawn from a text I wrote a few years ago. The presentation paper in which this phrase is found grappled with the intersections of aesthetics, anti-aesthetics, poly-centric aesthetics, and post-aesthetics. The presentation was for a curatorial project in which one focus was on the paradoxes that occur when certain tropes of conventional aesthetic …
The title of the exhibition “The Mystery Areas” is drawn from a text I wrote a few years ago. The presentation paper in which this phrase is found grappled with the intersections of aesthetics, anti-aesthetics, poly-centric aesthetics, and post-aesthetics. The presentation was for a curatorial project in which one focus was on the paradoxes that occur when certain tropes of conventional aesthetic forms and critical judgments collide with the tropes of anti-aesthetics: in the artwork first of all, and further as they might be read into the realm of critical discourse and histories and, other …
