Speculative Art Histories

Abstract

A ‘counter-discourse’ of speculative approaches to art history Situated at the interface of philosophy, aesthetics and art history, this collection brings together a series of creative responses to the recent speculative turn in Continental philosophy. It gives you both a genealogy of speculative art history and a provocatively experimental counter-discourse of new speculative art histories. The contributors include philosophers, art historians, architects and art practitioners who go beyond the mere complementarity of philosophy and art history. They are generous with the types of art they examine, including architecture, cinema, dance and new media, and the philosophical trajectories they engage with. Published in association with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Contributors Armen Avanessian , Free University Berlin, Germany. Erik Bordeleau , Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Adi Efal , University of Cologne, Germany. Francis Halsall , National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland Fleur Courtois-l'Heureux , National Fund for Scientific Research, ULB and INSAS, Belgium. Bram Ieven , Leiden University, Netherlands. Vlad Ionescu , University of Hasselt, Belgium. Sarah Kolb , University of Art and Design in Linz and Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Bertrand Prévost , University of Bordeaux, France. Andrej Radman , TU Delft, Netherlands. Elisabeth von Samsonow , Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria. Lars Spuybroek , Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Kerstin Thomas , Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. Sjoerd van Tuinen , Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. Kamini Vellodi , Kingston University, London, UK.