Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kelly, Mary
• Becker, Lisa Tamiris
• Stimson, Blake
• Hall, John R.

Titel

Mea Culpa: On residual culture and the turn to ethics

Ist Teil von

• Visual Worlds, 2005, p.237-242

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As an artist best known for a radical non-use of the image, 1 I found it necessary to rationalize my inclusion in a conference called Visual Worlds. At first, I thought, perhaps my interest in what lies at the liminal point of visuality is not necessarily "outside" of representation, but what relevance could it have, in this context, to focus on the invocation of something beyond the mimetic clarity of the iconic sign? This was before September 11. Now, there is an immediate and more imposing justification for doing so, that is, for interrogating the blind spot or, as The New York Times headline of September 23 put it, "peering into the abyss of the future." After September 11, we are told, everything changed. After the clear and catastrophic iconicity of the towers exploding on television, came the precisely photographed yet strangely unfocused image of ashes that accompanied this headline; index of the accident? sign of emptiness? or symptom of something emphatically beyond representation-a missed encounter, as they say.