Partaker Agency: Entanglement of agencies in artworks by Bekirovic and Abramović.

In this paper I enquire ‘partaker agency’ in artworks by Semâ Bekirovic and Marina Abramović. Partaker agency is a concept which describes the agencies at work in collaborations between the various entities of an artwork in its coming to ‘life.’ Partaker agency is already at work in the very first conception of the artwork, during the process of making, and until and beyond the interaction with the audience. This whole process is, following Karen Barad (2003), how matter starts to ‘matter.’

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Saskia Isabella Maria Korsten

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Publication date: May 2018

Publication date (Print): May 2018

Pages: 1-8

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[1 ] ArtEZ University of the Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.39

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Conference name: Politics of the Machines - Art and After

Conference acronym: EVA Copenhagen

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference date: 15 - 17 May 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Digital arts and culture

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K Barad 2003 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 3 801 831
P Blanc 1951 The artist and the atom Magazine of art 44 145 152
A Dorner 1958 The Way Beyond ‘Art’ New York University Press New York
D Haraway 1988 Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective Feminist Studies 14 3 575 599
S HillerJ. Fisher 2000 Dream Machines Hayward Gallery London
S Langer 1953 Feeling and Form A Theory of Art Charles Scribner’s sons New York
B Massumi 2002 Parables for the Virtual Duke University Press Durham
---. 2007 The Thinking-Feeling of What Happens Interact or Die 70 91
D Maurer 1993 Neonatal Synesthesia: Implications for the Processing of Speech And Faces Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life 109 124
R Stern 2013 A Conversation with Semâ Bekirovic http://www.lavalette.com/a-conversation-with-sema-bekirovic/ 27 April 2018
K StilesK. BiesenbachC. Iles 2008 Marina Abramović Phaidon London Website Sean Kelly Gallery http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/marina-Abramović4 15 May 2018

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[1] K Barad 2003 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28 3 801 831

[2] P Blanc 1951 The artist and the atom Magazine of art 44 145 152

[3] A Dorner 1958 The Way Beyond ‘Art’ New York University Press New York

[4] D Haraway 1988 Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective Feminist Studies 14 3 575 599

[5] S HillerJ. Fisher 2000 Dream Machines Hayward Gallery London

[6] S Langer 1953 Feeling and Form A Theory of Art Charles Scribner’s sons New York

[7] B Massumi 2002 Parables for the Virtual Duke University Press Durham

[8] ---. 2007 The Thinking-Feeling of What Happens Interact or Die 70 91

[9] D Maurer 1993 Neonatal Synesthesia: Implications for the Processing of Speech And Faces Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life 109 124

[10] R Stern 2013 A Conversation with Semâ Bekirovic http://www.lavalette.com/a-conversation-with-sema-bekirovic/ 27 April 2018

[11] K StilesK. BiesenbachC. Iles 2008 Marina Abramović Phaidon London Website Sean Kelly Gallery http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/marina-Abramović4 15 May 2018