@article{ART002089070},
author={CHOI, JONG CHUL},
title={Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2016},
volume={46},
pages={211-263},
doi={10.17527/JASA.45.0.07}
TY - JOUR
AU - CHOI, JONG CHUL
TI - Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2016
VL - 46
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 211
EP - 263
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This essay aims to clarify the duality of (Rosalind) Krauss' Post-Medium condition, and therein, questions how this duality works in our efforts to bring together both the post-medium art and the post-media art.
The duality here derives from Krauss' contradictory claims in her recent theories: Krauss taught us, back in 80s, the collapse of specificity in the postmodern era was ‘an expansion,’ while she’s now changed this thought, considering the same event as “a monstrous myth.” The duality also comes from the paradox that even though Krauss discredits installation (as non-art, kitch, etc.), most artists in her “crusades” against ‘the monstrous myth’ somehow involve installation, embracing media technologies.
Arguably however this duality illuminates the crisis of contemporary art that fails to maintain its specifity in the cult of digital generality. As Krauss would agree, this anti-specificity in recent digital arts appears to be a repeation of the post-medium conditions whose origin can be found in the Duchampian ‘disgust’ on aesthetic traditions.
Today we live on this contradiction as this paper attempts to explain and understand it. Peter Burger's 「Theory of Avant-Garde」, and Hal Foster's 「Who is afraid of Neo Avant-garde?」 will be reviewed in that for both, the repetition and contradiction in history was a central issue. As Foster’s argument goes, the post-media situation is not a repetition of its failed predecessor (the post-medium condition); rather it symptomizes the problems, simulated and understood by post-media's dialectical turn. To this end, this argument will prove that Krauss's duality is not a blind dead-end of her critical endeavor, but an insight through which one can see the true face of contemporary media/medium art
KW - Digital media art;Duality;Medium-generality;Medium-specificity;Post-media;Post-medium;Rosalind Krauss;Technical support
DO - 10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
ER -
CHOI, JONG CHUL. (2016). Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 46, 211-263.
CHOI, JONG CHUL. 2016, "Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.46, pp.211-263. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
CHOI, JONG CHUL "Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 46 pp.211-263 (2016) : 211.
CHOI, JONG CHUL. Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition. 2016; 46 211-263. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
CHOI, JONG CHUL. "Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 46(2016) : 211-263.doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
CHOI, JONG CHUL. Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 46, 211-263. doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
CHOI, JONG CHUL. Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2016; 46 211-263. doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
CHOI, JONG CHUL. Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition. 2016; 46 211-263. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
CHOI, JONG CHUL. "Notes on the Duality in Rosalind Krauss' Post-Medium Condition" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 46(2016) : 211-263.doi: 10.17527/JASA.45.0.07
