For an Ecological Music - Max Neuhaus

Thanks to the partnership between the Centre national des arts plastiques (cnap) and Critique d'art, it is possible to shed light on policies supporting art theory and art criticism by offering a platform to one of the winners of the Art Theory and Criticism prize in each issue. Hailing from very varied areas of interest and with very different approaches, the five winners for the year 2014 share in common the fact that they underwrite subjects that have remained on the sidelines of publications and exhibitions in France. Valrie Da Costa proposes a debut monograph on the sculpted oeuvre of Pino Pascali, a "comet artist" whose prolific and multi-facetted output challenges such canonical categories as arte povera. Olivier Schefer's forthcoming book grants a central place to science-fiction as a conceptual and aesthetic matrix of Robert Smithson's art. Aiming at a work in exhibition form, Marianne Derrien takes a close look at contemporary art by way of the notions of the occult and alchemy, and magic, black and white. The originality of the collaboration between the art critic Christophe Domino and the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko has to do as much with the aim of a World Institute for the Abolition of War in Paris as with the "hypothesis of a political art" today, not forgetting the heuristic interest of the actual relationship of "critical accompaniment" that connects them. Daniele Balit, for his part, broaches the relation between art and public place through the study of the sound installations produced and projected by Max Neuhaus, aimed at the post-industrial urban environment. Well removed from the Futurist desire to subject life to an overall aesthetic principal, Neuhaus's approach puts the author on the back burner and, through the attention paid to "listening to listening", deals with the cohabitation of sounds in the city rather than their systematic organization. It is in this sense that the concept of "ecological music" assumes its full breadth. This subtly contextualized case study reminds us of the importance of a history at the crossroads of several paths, beyond disciplinary boundaries

Biology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Ecology

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