Mapping artistic singularities, hybrid languages, and affects

Abstract

This dossier unfolds a critical reading, cartographic in orientation, of contemporary artistic practices that compose their languages through the crossing of modes of production, forms of enunciation, and procedures. The texts gathered here reconstruct the itineraries of these works and their modes of operation, attending to the connections each practice activates among materials, bodies, memories, and territories. This reconstruction makes it possible to recognize how certain operations render visible, sensible, or shareable what had remained displaced from dominant modes of reading. The essays thus open questions about the presences that the works bring forth, the affects they mobilize, and the conditions under which an experience may be inscribed within a shared field of sensibility and meaning.