The reversibility of art, Lucretius, gravity and Semâ Bekirovic's How to stop falling

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dc.contributor.authorAllen, Graham
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-07T10:45:10Z
dc.date.available2013-08-07T10:45:10Z
dc.date.issued2012-11
dc.date.updated2013-08-07T09:27:50Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper reflects on art works recently displayed in an exhibition in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, in 2011. In particular it focuses on Semâ Bekirovic's video art work How to Stop Falling, in order to expand upon a theory of art s reversibility. The paper uses the work of the Roman philosopher Lucretius, along with Jacques Derrida s deconstructive encounter with Lucretius in his essay Mes chances/My chances, to meditate on art s resistance to the entropic logic of the natural world. The paper also employs Lucretius alongside modern scientific understandings of the cosmos to reflect on Bekirovic's and others engagement with the very idea or in fact ideas of gravity. As part of this meditation on reversibility, the paper foregrounds issues concerning the relationship between nature, art and the idea of chance. Lucretius's atomistic philosophy, with its concept of the clinamen, emphasises chance in ways which Derrida has shown are particularly congruent with deconstruction, and with these contexts in mind this paper attempts to explore ways in which art seeks to frame the essential aleatory nature of realityen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationAllen, Graham (2012) 'The Reversibility of Art, Lucretius, Gravity and Semâ Bekirovic s How to stop falling'. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 32 (6):67-73.en
dc.identifier.endpage73en
dc.identifier.issn0257-0254
dc.identifier.issued6en
dc.identifier.journaltitleTheoretical Studies in Literature and Arten
dc.identifier.startpage67en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1212
dc.identifier.volume32en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTheoretical Studies in Literature and Arten
dc.relation.urihttp://202.120.85.33/Jweb_wyllyj/EN/abstract/abstract111.shtml#abstract_tab_content
dc.rights© 2012, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art and Graham Allen.en
dc.subjectLiterary and cultural theoryen
dc.subjectTheories of intertextuality and influenceen
dc.subjectDeconstructionen
dc.subjectTheories of the university and educationen
dc.subjectTheories of adaptation in literary and visual culturalen
dc.subjectRomantic literatureen
dc.subjectThe Godwin-Shelley circleen
dc.titleThe reversibility of art, Lucretius, gravity and Semâ Bekirovic's How to stop fallingen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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