In this dense and beautiful reflection, Jens Andermann introduces us into the logic of trance, a way of naming the Borromean knot that links the space and time of the subject with that of the community,
both splintered by violent displacements and temporary hiatus. Thus pursues a vanishing object that, forward, is directed to the hyperobject, the postnatural in-world, but that, retrospectively, can be read as the tracing of a natural history of the anthropocene. In the perspective of the author, it is the story of a retreat, fold of art in relation to its frame
institutional, and unfolding of previous ways of aesthetic postulation of the world as "landscape". The environment emerges as a "scene", a fluid spatio-temporal ensemble that is not defined by the social exteriority of its forms, but by the internal dynamics of its forces.
The trance of a thing is neither a ...read more