The text PRUSSIAN BLUE, PRECARITY, MUTATIONS, INFOSPHERE, and
PERSPECTIVE: Five Essays on Subjective Interpretation, consists of five essays exploring the phenomenological network of contemporary art.
The texts deal with the relationship to the historical archive, chance, and the infosphere.
The texts are essayistic, methodologically free, and flow between historical sources, personal artistic positions, and philosophically critical conclusions.
Ultimately, the texts create a rhizomatic horizontal network of possible ways of thinking about contemporary art in the grip of late capitalism.
Prussian blue traces the invention of the pigment Prussian blue through its use in the deadly pesticide Zyklon B, which was used by the Nazis, to the first dreams of artificial intelligence in the post-war United States.
Precarity follows the collapse of feudalism in the European Middle Ages and the beginning of the search for a new political system that would be more stable than feudalism. With this entry into the modern era, a process of pushing the population into a state of uncertainty began in Europe and around the world, from which capitalism can unabashedly transform the human
and more than human world.
Mutations follows the idea of genius in art and, using examples from evolutionary biology, explores alternative ways of thinking about how ideas and artistic shifts have developed throughout history.
Infosphere describes the history of images and their descent into free fall, i.e., the state of contemporary pseudo-virtual reality in which we live.
Perspective follows the history of stylistic and formal changes in painting and photography and other artistic disciplines that converge in the chaos of the Anthropocene, in which art realizes that humanity must be removed from the center.
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