The Art Opening: Proximity and Potentiality at Events

dc.contributor.authorFuller, Martin
dc.contributor.authorRen, Julie
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-21T10:18:42Z
dc.date.available2021-01-21T10:18:42Z
dc.date.issued2019-03-06
dc.date.updated2020-07-03T10:30:34Z
dc.descriptionDieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.de
dc.descriptionThis publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.en
dc.description.abstractThis article develops the concept of proximity as socio-spatial distance by looking at the temporally and spatially condensed events of contemporary art exhibition openings. The article begins by examining some developments in proximity research, the limitations of theorizing the importance of proximity as mere physical nearness, arguing that potentiality renders proximity meaningful. After introducing the art event, we offer a three-pronged approach to proximity by showing the imperatives for being-there, the conditional indeterminacy of potentiality and the politics of proximity. In contrast to much recent research, it is argued that the significance of events is not reducible to evaluated outcomes. Two ethnographic vignettes show the imperatives, indeterminacies and politics in action. We conclude by showing how this conceptualization of proximity has analytic purchase beyond the empirical realm of contemporary art.en
dc.identifier.eissn1460-3616
dc.identifier.issn0263-2764
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/12508
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-11327
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.ddc301 Soziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.subject.otherart openingen
dc.subject.otherBeijingen
dc.subject.otherBerlinen
dc.subject.othercontemporary arten
dc.subject.othereventsen
dc.subject.otherpotentialityen
dc.subject.otherproximityen
dc.subject.otherspatial theoryen
dc.titleThe Art Opening: Proximity and Potentiality at Eventsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1177/0263276419834638en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue7-8en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleTheory, Culture & Societyen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameSAGEen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceLondonen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend152en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart135en
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume36en
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tub.affiliationFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umwelt::Inst. Soziologie::FG Planungs- und Architektursoziologiede
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 6 Planen Bauen Umweltde
tub.affiliation.groupFG Planungs- und Architektursoziologiede
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Soziologiede
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinen

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