Objects under investigation (report - reperti) - Artist's talk at Kunsttempel

 „THIS IS IT“, Sprachkunst von Arnold Dreyblatt, Federico Federici, Nauka Kirschner; Dr. Friedrich W. Block curator, Kunsttempel, Kassel, 19/10-19/11/2023.

- - - - [4] [...] A medium is an intrinsic characteristic of the phenomenon under investigation (namely: of the artistic practice), whose essence is revealed by the incompleteness (or even by the failure) of its translation. From a linguistic point of view, a medium partakes as an idiom of a particular art practice, as the trait that cannot thoroughly be translated into /transferred to another practice. A medium sets itself as a middle term – in an updated etymological sense – between ‘reality’ (whatever one may define by this) and ‘reification’ or, narrowing the scope, between what an art piece is aimed at (‘objectivity’) and what it ultimately consists of (‘objectification’). It is a ‘tension’ in both that objectivity and objectification tend to overlapping (while hardly or partially actually doing) and in the sense of the tensor which defines the metric of the space (mathematical, artistic and so forth) under investigation. It is a method (a set of rules or procedures) to work out the cross-breeding of different practices, like the folding of surfaces in abstract geometry. [...] - - - - [7] [...] This said, quantum mechanics opens up an inspirational way to discuss and develop the word-sign dualism, but before diving into it, a couple of rather acceptable ideas: 1) a word is a lump of signification as much as a particle is a lump of matter 2) when you observe a sign conventionally identified as a word, you immediately access its signification - - - - [9] [...] The unsupervised superposition of many signs determines a sort of interference pattern of sense. A single sign, like a single electron, “knows”, if not disturbed by signification, how to take part in an arrangement that preserves high textual quality, while being essentially abstract in expression. The ‘writer’ (let’s keep using this term for the artist dealing with a ‘textual’ medium) triggers the underlying relational structure for the ‘reader’ (to use another conventional term) to complete or detect further elements of writing. It is a kind of disjunctive writing, since they both separately partake in defining the textual experience. [...] - - - - Downloads and further resources freely accessible here: https://federicofederici.net/category/webinar/ http://leserpent.wordpress.com - - - - "Workbook of the universe" installation uploaded here: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2199743/2199660