The radicant artist is not easily defined, baring the label “alter modern” it is a synthesis of modernism and post modernism. It is therefore broad and varied, encompassing many ideas. Diversity, flexibility, movement and changeability, are its most overarching characteristics. In the introduction of this book by Nicholas Bourriard it is described as an organism that grows its roots and sets them in motion advancing as an ivy vine would. The Radicant, being a densely layered book with complex ideas, I have chosen and outline form to distill the main points.
What is a radicant artist?
1. a synthesis between modernism and post modernism
2. tracing lines in all directions of time and space with the present as a reference point
3. a voluntary confusion of eras and genres
4. nomadism; three kinds; space, time, among the signs
5. “being uplifted by an immense wave of displacements, voyages, translations, migrations of objects and beings”
6. diaspora, migration, exodus
7. resulting from global dialogue (not just Western)
8. a significance that transcends cultural divides
9. not merely object based but a significant network with connections orchestrated by the artist
10. no boundaries for artistic language
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