Re: [-empyre-] politics of critical fusion?

[Timothy Murray <tcm1@cornell.edu>]

> It's nice to have you back online, Alice

I've been meaning to ask you about your commitment to creating art 
"events" that have an inherently political undercurrent, as does 
Chernobyl, whether from a "green" standpoint or from the perspective 
of international relations.  Is this just something that pertains 
only to the Chernobyl project  or is it reflective of your work as a 
whole?  I'm asking in relation to our framing of "critical spatial 
practice" as what "entails the claiming of social responsibility at 
the intersections of art, geography, architecture, and activism.

Best,

Tim

> Hi Maurice,
>
> From reading the posts, I had in mind a similar idea, but was 
> uncertain about the relation between "critical fusion" and 
> "fiction". Thanks for the explanation. I think it should apply then 
> to all powerful works of art?
>
> It seems to me that in creating specific ways to access some 
> reality, even if in very temporary and contingent forms, the 
> inquirer inextricably formats what is seen and created. Considering 
> that in a painting, in a film, in an installation and so on, the way 
> in which we formulate questions to something called reality shapes 
> in an intrinsic way the results that might be created - there always 
> should be, I think, a critical fusion taking place in good (strong, 
> powerful) artwork, in different degrees of information, fiction and 
> "reality"?
Alice
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Timothy Murray
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video Studies
Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library
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Cornell University
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