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5 Clark’s concept of the "organic line" a destabilizing force within the canon

5 Clark’s concept of the "organic line" a destabilizing force within the canon

LYGIA CLARK RETROSPEKTIVE vor 9 Monaten

Art history professors Elize Mazadiego (Universität Bern) and Irene V. Small (Princeton) in conversation

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A fundamentally new and important concept coined by Lygia Clark is
the "organic line" that is discussed in this episode by the
scholars Elize Mazadiego and Irene V. Small. Clark deployed this
line to break the frame and is a line or several lines of space
that lie in between. From a conceptual point of view, Small argues,
these lines could be considered as important as the void in Kazimir
Malevich’s Black Square or John Cage’s 4’33’’ but never got this
attention due to the dominant mechanisms of canonization. Elize
Mazadiego and Irene V. Small belong to the youngest generation of
academic scholars that shed light on aspects of art history
theorization and writing neglected so far. "As an interval between
entities, the organic line can be harnessed toward the recursion or
dissolution of its bounding systems and even come to act as an
autopoietic entity in and of itself" explains Irene Small. This
concept has, due to its seminal importance, influence on art
production up now and most likely also in the future.