Contemporary Sculptural Haptics in Sociocultural Context

Maryna Protas; Igor Isychenko

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Contemporary Sculptural Haptics in Sociocultural Context

Maryna Protas, Igor Isychenko^*

Published in American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 8, Issue 4)

Received: 23 October 2023 Accepted: 14 November 2023 Published: 24 November 2023

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In the paper the phenomenon of the so-called contemporary sculptural haptics is discussed. Under this term the authors understand the quality of contemporary art objects to make sight bodily, that is, to reduce any image or imagery that these objects (be they physical or virtual) attempt to represent to merely physical shapes, which is done in such a way that the horizon of the transcendental appears to be sealed off or cut off by immense sensory overload. Consequently, when dealing with sculptural haptics our eyes rather "touch" the art object (even if it is a seemingly shapeless and amorph sculpture) than look at it. This lack or collapse of transcendental horizon that was once glowing from the inside of things and especially works of art results in a form of sensual eternalism, when art is understood only as something that represents this or that form of "reality", be it the reality of concepts produced by our mind to describe the world we live in or the so-called "physical reality" of dense material objects or any other given, particular, defined form of reality, as opposed to Transcendental Reality as such. It is also stated that haptics of this kind, overall, results in an uncritical attitude when works of public art that are totally irrelated to the unique character of the place are installed in it (the so-called plop-art). Instead of this subtle form of the violence of international market economy and post-capitalism over the residents of the place where such artworks are installed, more subtle and sensitive to the environment site-specific works should instead be preferred.

Published in	American Journal of Art and Design (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajad.20230804.11
Page(s)	99-106
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Contemporary Haptics, Public Art, Plop Art, Site-Specific Art, Sculpture of Ukraine

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Maryna Protas

Department of Curatorial Exhibition Activities and Cultural Exchange, Modern Art Research Institute of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Department of Art Criticism Methodology, Modern Art Research Institute of National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

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