The Artist, the Scholar and the Next School

Abstract

This summer the Documenta exhibition opened in Kassel with a strange and powerful dedicatory inscription: we were told that a dance had been “frenetic, lively, rattling, clanging, rolling, contorted, and [had] lasted for a long time,” that “the riddle of art is that we do not know what it is, until it is no longer that which it was,” that “it is defined even by what it fails to achieve.”Further, dOCUMENTA (13) proclaimed its dedication to “artistic research and forms of imagination that explo...