Chronology

"Is it the intentionality described by phenomenology and the ambiguous flesh of the active viewer who enters the work of art and fully explores its most extreme possibilities that determine the limits of possible subjectivation? Or is it the work itself that defines the parameters of new potential forms of subjectivity, perhaps involving modes of awareness that dodge the framework of phenomenology?" Daniel Birnbaum

Such are the questions that constitute the ultimate horizon of this philosophical essay where author Daniel Birnbaum discusses the works of artists such as Stan Douglas, Doug Aitken, Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Gordon, Tobias Rehberger, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tacita Dean et al.