The author presents a theory of transart as research art arising after the “end of art” and connecting with other social fields, especially science. The result enables understanding of the very contemporary art as an important social agens which stimulates critical reflection of the present and future social questions. It delivers an important awareness that art cannot be considered separately from global cultural and economic conditions and also assures theoretical and reflective tools to detect this kind of connections.
COBISS.SI-ID: 251594496
The result detects a crisis of representation and exposes an increasing interest of art not to use tracing or constatives through media but to perform life or deconstruct a medium (e.g. photography) with opening it (e.g. with interaction in time & space) to a rhizome (after Deleuze and Guattari). The achievement demonstrates a turn in culture and life sciences to the presence of a live, to tactile manipulation with live that happens with the turn of the millennium simultaneously with the decline of the computer paradigm, and indicates the change in comprehension of the body, life, and subject, as well present in art.
COBISS.SI-ID: 253204224
The author revises a known theory by Fredric Jameson on postmodernism as culture in the age of late capitalism and demonstrates how culture and art have changed since the late eighties when discussed by Jameson. Above all a transition from production to services and a paradigm of consumer, user, evident in economy, has taken place in culture and art as well. At the same time art has actually developed critical charge, which lacked in the phase of postmodernism, as taxed by Jameson.
COBISS.SI-ID: 151167
The author introduces a term transart to term contemporary artistic approaches that present actual shifts: transdisciplinarity, heterogeneity, social responsibility (reflectivity), networking etc. Special attention is devoted to socially critical practices in Slovenia. The author ascertains that these have shifted from obvious reference to the historical avant-gardes in the 90s to actual social and cultural criticism (after 2000) that shows interest in the issues of nationality, control, consumerism and ideological and actual influence of scientific technologies to contemporary society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 512585856
The article entitled Jugar con una presencia viva was published in a magazine issued by UNAM, the largest University in the Spanish speaking world. It presents bio art as a contemporary art in the intersection of art and biotechnology, which has been appearing since the 90s of the 20th c. up to the present. On the basis of this contribution and being a guest at the UNAM the author has been invited to publish a monograph in Spanish and to further collaboration with UNAM.
COBISS.SI-ID: 512741760