L'Indécidable / The Undecidable Gaps and Displacements of Contemporary Art

By choosing “the undecidable” as the starting point for a reflection on contemporary art, this publication intends a new and critical perspective on art, the object, and its relationship to the world and contemporary reality. Here, the notion of undecidability describes a multiplicity of borderline zones obliterating the limits between art and non-art, artist and object, fiction and reality, aesthetic and political positions. In the postmodern cultural context, it seems clear to us that what we define as undecidable cannot be reduced to a single identity, territory, or fixed and unitary history. Relationships and shifts are foregrounded between objects, truths and certainties within a current artistic production that resists easy interpretation or predictability. Contemporary art’s concomitance with the every day and with life appears to be particularly destabilizing, such that current productions seem to suspend any definitive assessment that might attempt to circumscribe what is actually being proposed before us.

Authors
Marie Fraser
Jean-Philippe Uzel
Patrice Loubier
Jocelyne Lupien
Joanne Lalonde
Thérèse St-Gelais
Vincent Lavoie

Editor
Thérèse St-Gelais

Publisher
Les éditions esse

Publication date
2008

Binding
Softcover

Size
6.25 x 8.75 inches
296 pages

Languages
French
English

ISBN
978-1-9809052-1-6