Re: <documenta X><blast> urb anim age
Bracha Lichtenberg - Ettinger (bracha@easynet.fr)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:48:23 +0200
Antigone as an emblem for art's subjective-objec fascinates me as
'she' raises the question of the place of the feminine on the borders of
culture and channels from these borders a desire that is not-yet contained
in, and not-yet subjected to any actual culture. Thus, this emblem evokes
art's subjective-object's potentiality to expand culture's borders while
acting from its margines.
In the no-place of the exiles, some kind of 'feminine' rapport, not as a
traumatic return on-to the corpo-real, not as psychosis, but as a
transformation into the art-work by matrixial sublimation can be revealed.
The Thing-rapport resists the existing Symbolic order and does not yield
itself, while matrixial residues find sublimatory passages into art. And
through metramorphosis, something infiltrates and vibrates, beyond horror
and anxiety, from the po=EFetic object to the aesthetic object and back, ont=
o
becoming-art and from it onwards and back, just until drafting
contour-lines for questions culture has to grapple with at a present time;
even just until questions of ethics - and back. Similarly, a matrixial
offering in artworking contains something of the foreignness of the other
who is in rapport with it, retroactively or in potential, sooner or later,
and in terms of the other's limit's, even her death - and of mine.
I am not saying that the asthetic can stand for the ethic, or that the
ethic can cover the asthetic. There will always be a distance between these
two realms, I believe. But, when Levinas says that "in the feminine", the
death of the other is more important to me than my own death and therefore
"[t]he feminine is that difference, the feminine is that incredible thing
in the human by which it is affirmed that without me the world has a
meaning" does he not speak, precisely, on that limit of the human,
perceived from an a-priory, originary, feminine difference, as an opening
of ethics which is brought up to light be some kind of internal move we can
only distinguish as, first of all, aesthetic?
Bracha
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