What makes an exhibition? Artistic practices that create “the third realm”, that is exhibiting natureculture in art galleries Cover Image

Co czyni wystawa? Praktyki artystyczne kreujące „trzecią sferę”, czyli wystawianie naturykultury w galeriach sztuki
What makes an exhibition? Artistic practices that create “the third realm”, that is exhibiting natureculture in art galleries

Author(s): Barbara Major
Subject(s): Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Visual Arts, Classification, Aesthetics, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, History of Art
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
Keywords: postanthropocentric art; index; indexical relation; exhibition; natureculture;

Summary/Abstract: The article is an anthropological reflexion over the activities that are connected with exhib-iting in the art galleries the art created in the ecological and/or posthumanist world vision. Exhibiting such works constitutes the gesture of outlawing a certain system of qualifica-tion based on anthropocentricism and is a challenge to social idea of taste. The exhibition becomes the place of constructing an aesthetic world, the main paradigm of which is no longer defined by the opposition nature / culture. This is how the “third realm” is created: connecting the culturally constituted contradiction of nature and culture, and that realm makes the synthesis- natureculture, where the place of opposition is taken by ecological relation of biological and social factors.

  • Issue Year: 7/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 173-184
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish