What if Art Desires to be Interpreted? Remodelling Interpretation after the ‘Encounter-Event’
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Pollock, Griselda
Date published
2011
Abstract
Taking up analytical theorist and painter Bracha Ettinger’s argument that it is the destiny and desire of artworks to be interpreted, this paper explores the concept of ‘encounter-event’ as a model to move beyond the restrictive dichotomies of word and image, verbal and visual language, object and text, and into the politics of difference via an understanding of interpretation as a collaborative activity solicited by the artwork as an event that precipitates an encounter with difference and thus extends the viewer, rather than instructs them, in given scripts of cultural meaning.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
15
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright