Media Reflexivity: Conflating Form and Content
In Greenbergism, the autonomy of an artwork is a fundamental value. This autonomy is challenged by a central tenet in contemporary art, pluralism, a philosophy which supports a diversity of opinions, cultures, and ethnicities necessary to explain the world. Nevertheless, autonomy – originality and self-consciousness – still remains essential in contemporary art. This writing proposes a way to understand this paradox between autonomy and pluralism in contemporary art by revealing an integrated and exchangeable relationship between content and form. This essay explains this non-hierarchal relationship by looking at films by Lars von Tiers and my own projects which construct social situations as artwork. (more…)