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Bruce Nauman

Performative Scepticism and the Aporia of Sense
  • Adi Louria Hayon
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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Studies and Texts in Scepticism

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To date, scholars explored Bruce Nauman’s oeuvre through various perspectives, concepts and premises, including linguistics, performance, power and knowledge, sound, the political and more. Amidst this vast and rich field, Nauman’s pieces have been regarded by critics in terms of systematic skepticism, tragic skepticism, skepticism of the medium, and linguistic doubt. This book methodically analyzes the notion of performative skepticism and its relevance to various dimensions of Bruce Nauman’s post-minimalist artistic practice. It is argued that Nauman performs the perpetual failure of perception, hence, demonstrating its doubtful validity to produce certain knowledge without allowing a resolution. This kind of skepticism, here called performative skepticism, exposes the impossibility of epistemological equipment to produce knowledge, and the impossibility of attaining certainty in bridging the gap between knowledge and the real.

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Adi Louria Hayon, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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"Adi Louria Hayon's Bruce Nauman offers a deeply researched examination of the artist’s oeuvre, bringing focus to his unique engagement with philosophical scepticism. From failure, delay and error to repetition and breakdown, Louria　Hayon astutely positions the work of Nauman, as well as related art of the 1960s and 70s, as performative interruptions of sense-making. Disclosing the praxis of doubt as an aesthetic experience the book includes insightful readings into philosophies of logic and mind, mathematics, and deconstruction. Louria Hayon eloquently shows how Nauman’s performative scepticism continually exposes a productive gap between perception and representation, knowledge and the real; a manner of making art and a mode of being." - Brandon LaBelle, artistic director, The Listening Biennial.

　　

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Frontmatter

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Acknowledgements

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Contents

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List of Figures

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Introduction: The Performative Sceptic Makes a Difference

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Chapter 1 Inconsistencies in Formal Systems and Concrete Experience

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Chapter 2 The Cogito’s Temporality Is Contingent upon Partitioning Blocks

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Chapter 3 Topologies of the Haptic Interval

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Epilogue: The Sceptic’s Withdrawal Hangs on Heterogeneity

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Bibliography

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Index of Subjects

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Index of Names

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eBook published on:
May 6, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783110664133
Hardcover published on:
May 6, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110659306
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
20
Main content:
218
Illustrations:
59
Coloured Illustrations:
34
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664133
eBook ISBN: 9783110664133
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110659306
Keywords for this book
Performative skepticism; Bruce Nauman; Post-minimalism; Art.
Audience(s) for this book
Kunsthistoriker/-innen, Philosoph/-innen, Judaist/-innen.
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