La création brute : altérité et institution
Raw Creation: Alterity and Institution

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an overview of an ongoing investigation on art brut. We will argue that art brut is underpinned by a conceptual imaginary that could lead us to propose alternative cultural mediations. Within art brut, understood as a collection of outsiders’ productions, the notion of alterity is always involved, whether it’s for its praise, its criticism, its production or its reception. We question the central role of alterity in a four-stage process. The first one introduces the problematical insufficiency of the notion of otherness. The second stage specifies the notion of institution and introduces the hypothesis of a pre-instituted depth. The third stage unfolds this imaginary, whether it concerns the production or the reception of singular forms. The last part intends to show how this theoretical journey could help us to guide practices.

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