Affective Object in Contemporary Art – МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ ЖУРНАЛ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

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Alina V. VENKOVA
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
48, Moika Emb., St. Petersburg, 191186 Russian Federation
Associate Professor
D. S. Likhachev Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow
2, st. Cosmonauts, Moscow, 129301 Russian Federation
Principal Research Fellow of the Center for Basic Studies in the Sphere of Culture
Doctor of Science (Cultural Studies)
Associate Professor
e-mail: venkova@mail.ru
ORCID: 0000-0002-3075-612X

Affective Object in Contemporary Art

Abstract: The article introduces the concept of “affective object” into the practice of describing works of art, conceptualizes this term, and demonstrates the properties and features of this type of objects using specific examples from the field of contemporary installation art, object art, time-based art. Their differences from conceptual and plastic objects are considered. The possibilities of applying the theory of affects, environmental theory, the theory of mediation to describe this kind of works of art are discussed, the role of the category of the sublime in the work of affect in such works of art is touched upon. The properties of conceptual objects are shown on the example of the works of Ilya Kabakov and Edward Kienholz, plastic objects are described by Franz Ackermann, hybrid forms – by Thomas Hirschhorn, Liam Gillick. The analysis of affective objects of installation type is based on the works of Gregor Schneider, Mike Nelson, Irina Nakhova, Roger Hiorns. Non-installation affective objects are described by Joseph Beuys, Miroslaw Balka, objects of a transitional type are also revealed. The presented works emphasize the impact on the viewer of the affective component of receptive experience, the inclusion of the body in the process of perception, the importance of non-verbalizable, unimaginable and impossible components of the experience, described as the experience of acquaintance with art.

Key words: affective object, conceptual object, installation, affect theory, sublime, unimaginable, mediation.

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For Citation:

Venkova, A. (2022) Affective Object in Contemporary Art. International Journal of Cultural Research, 4 (49). 123–130. DOI: 10.52173/2079-1100_2022_4_123

DOI: 10.52173/2079-1100_2022_4_123