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interesting read on art language (IAE):
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/
contents/international_art_english

A comment on this essay by Hito Steyerl:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/45/60100/international-disco-latin/

Language is not something that belong:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/80/100018/more-than-one-language/

Slavoj Zizek:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/32/68252/hegel-versus-heidegger/

Trans fem:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/117/387257/our-own-words-fem-trans-past-future/

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IAE has a distinctive lexicon: aporia, radically, space, proposition, biopolitical, tension, transversal, autonomy. An artist’s work inevitably interrogates, questions, encodes, transforms, subverts, imbricates, displaces—though often it doesn’t do these things so much as it serves to, functions to, or seems to (or might seem to) do these things. IAE rebukes English for its lack of nouns: Visual becomes visuality, global becomes globality, potential becomes potentiality, experience becomes … experiencability.

-ITY
-NONSPATIAL/SPATIAL SPACE
-PARA/PROTO/POST/
HYPER

Sculpturize

Void

Para

Proto

Post

Hyper

Space

Intersection

Parallelism

Involution

Platform

Ability

Experiencability

Visuality

Globality

Potentiality

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"A broader dimension of meaning"

https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/34535/sadane-afif/

Hypermeaningfulability

Reality

Real

Lost in the space of communication

The origin of IAE

https://www.jstor.org/journal/october

1976

an American tradition of formalist art criticism associated with Clement Greenberg collided with continental philosophy.

more rigorous interpretive criteria

FRENCH//GERMAN//ENGLISH

Rosalind Krauss

ion, -ity, -ality, and -ization VS -ness

French is probably also responsible for the prepositional and adverbial phrases that are so
common in IAE: simultaneously, while also, and, of course, always already.

Krauss and her colleagues aspired to a kind of analytic precision in their use of words, but at several degrees’ remove those same words are used like everyday language: anarchically, expressively. (The word dialectic has a precise, some would say scientific, meaning, but in IAE it is normally used for its affective connotation: It means good.)

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Whatever the content, the aim is to sound to the art world like someone worth listening to, by adopting an approximation of its elite language.

DOES IT?

where does the urge to use language more freely and less conventional come from?

Too direct

When Artspeak Masks Oppression - Mostafa Heddaya

Hito Steyerl & Martha Rosler