The Matter of Contradiction/Ungrounding the Object is the second event in a series of four focusing on the relationships between art and new forms of contemporary philosophy. The first event, Art Without Aesthetics, held in Rosascape, Paris, in December 2011, introduced the series, attending to questions of the artwork beyond anthropocentrism. This second event, Ungrounding the Object focuses its attention on the renewal of the object as conceived outside of human access and the shattering of the ‘space of critique’. It attempts to understand how art, philosophy, mathematics, geology and physics can collide, not just as procedure of transdisciplinarity but through the intersection of their independent dynamics and collusion of their materials. Articulated as the disruption or collapsing of the ground on which we stand, we claim ungrounding is a cognitive and material process of evisceration. To this end, the correlation between thought and the object should be revised. We wish to explore the impact of objective reality within the realm of art practice, contending that we must understand the capacity of the (art)object to unground through its contingent materiality.
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The Matter of Contradiction is a collaborative project of Sam Basu, Fabien Giraud, Ida Soulard and Tom Trevatt. More informations can be found here : lamatiere.tumblr.com
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Ungrounding the Object was held at the Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de l'Ile de Vassivière, in Limousin, France in collaboration with INKHUK and Treignac Project.
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Special thanks to Luis Giraud for the video recordings of the event.