photo : © J. Faujour, permission | courtesy Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
A Linguistic Elucidation
Although the description and understanding of contemporary art practices seem a priori already to have been documented by aesthetics, art criticism, and art history, a linguistic approach to the problem is nonetheless relevant: linguistics affords us, on the one hand, a means to clarify a complex terminology (on the terms interaction and interactivity); on the other hand, linguistics (particularly the program of what is called “interactional” linguistics) can help us to rethink the “mutual actions” at play in contemporary art.
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