Topographie discrète
Topographie discrète
scénario pour un texte sans dimensions
Anne-Françoise Schmid et Ivan Liovik Ebel
Every encounter presupposes a place. When an artist and a philosopher meet, the place is generally the field of art or that of philosophy. That is to say that it is always the fruit of the invitation of the one by the other on a foreign ground. It results from it from asymmetrical exchanges where the philosophy is summoned by the artist to serve as support or as frame to his speech in a case, and where the art is summoned by the philosopher to offer it to the aesthetics.
The philosopher Anne-Françoise Schmid and the artist Ivan Liovik Ebel have decided to work together to create a new place that is not exactly that of the usual asymmetrical encounter. That is to say, a common = X. From this place, original materialities will be able to emerge which do not seek absolutely their anchoring points in such or such discipline. Their project thus consists in « theorizing » a topography of the other « space » where the different materialities will meet.
This particular and delicate place, uncertain in its contours, always in precarious balance, will produce the conditions of an encounter that will not take place on the known terrain of courtly dialogue, but in an original form, without tradition: a series of short texts presented in two columns and which, without calling out to each other or answering each other quite explicitly, communicate in a sensitive way.
It is largely in the empty space between these two columns that the content of this book, its true identity, is found. This space is not intermediate, it is located neither in art nor in philosophy, but its starting point takes place in art and in philosophy. The chorus, taken from the ancient tragedy, resounds like the echo of the sensitive. It manifests and reveals a distant empathy, a voice hesitating between metaphor and music.
Deliberately experimental book, it forges the scenario of a text with floating places, beyond and below its virtual dimensions. It barely and very discreetly touches the works, theorems of the soul of the artist and the philosopher.
Every encounter presupposes a place. When an artist and a philosopher meet, the place is generally the field of art or that of philosophy. That is to say that it is always the fruit of the invitation of the one by the other on a foreign ground. It results from it from asymmetrical exchanges where the philosophy is summoned by the artist to serve as support or as frame to his speech in a case, and where the art is summoned by the philosopher to offer it to the aesthetics.
The philosopher Anne-Françoise Schmid and the artist Ivan Liovik Ebel have decided to work together to create a new place that is not exactly that of the usual asymmetrical encounter. That is to say, a common = X. From this place, original materialities will be able to emerge which do not seek absolutely their anchoring points in such or such discipline. Their project thus consists in « theorizing » a topography of the other « space » where the different materialities will meet.
This particular and delicate place, uncertain in its contours, always in precarious balance, will produce the conditions of an encounter that will not take place on the known terrain of courtly dialogue, but in an original form, without tradition: a series of short texts presented in two columns and which, without calling out to each other or answering each other quite explicitly, communicate in a sensitive way.
It is largely in the empty space between these two columns that the content of this book, its true identity, is found. This space is not intermediate, it is located neither in art nor in philosophy, but its starting point takes place in art and in philosophy. The chorus, taken from the ancient tragedy, resounds like the echo of the sensitive. It manifests and reveals a distant empathy, a voice hesitating between metaphor and music.
Deliberately experimental book, it forges the scenario of a text with floating places, beyond and below its virtual dimensions. It barely and very discreetly touches the works, theorems of the soul of the artist and the philosopher.