CONFUSED FORCES
Résumé
This article concerns the way in which a perceptual shock caused by a tree
can constitute an event for artists, to the point of motivating the project and
then the production of a work. In other words, the issue is to analyze how
the encounter with certain alive or dead trees, whether physical or through a
medium/reported, can determine a creative process in which memory plays
an important role. The analysis will be carried out through two works in
progress that are very different in their conception as well as in their means
of production (the “Beuys’ acorns” project by the artist couple Ackroyd and
Harvey and a personal project entitled “Forces confuses”). Various conceptual
tools from psychoanalytical theory, anthropology, sociology, phenomenology
of perception, theory of memory, and art history structure the case studies;
these define a specific relationship between the life of forms and forms of life,
linked in the experience of these works, in relation to the aesthetic, ecological,
and sociopolitical context of the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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