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Reading après-coup and interminable work

김원방 1

1홍익대학교

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ABSTRACT

“Retroaction”, the main subject of this study, means less a causationist process at the temporal level than a retroactive recreation or transformation of a past event from the present point of view. This aspect of retroaction is particularly present in new media art and interactive art as well as traditional art. This study attempted to clarify the structure and meaning of retroaction especially by way of the theories of Georges Didi-Huberman, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. The notion of retroaction involves a radical deconstruction of the basis of conventional iconology. It does’nt remain at the level of figural rereading, moreover it means a “desire for the symbolic” in order to translate visual figures into language. This is also a desire to describe art “with Other(Autre)” in lacanian sense. Thus the process of retroactive reading of art work is similar to the situation of a psychoneurotic patient who tries to transit from the imaginary to the realm of the symbolic.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.