Without destination: the gift of Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Book chapter
Mooney, J. 2006. Without destination: the gift of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. in: Rogers, H. and Williamson, A. (ed.) Art Becomes You!: Parody, Pastiche & the Politics of Art – Materiality in a Post Material Paradigm. UCE, Birmingham Article Press. pp. 28-41
Chapter title | Without destination: the gift of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. |
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Authors | Mooney, J. |
Abstract | Mooney's essay explored the notion of ‘the gift' and the attendant ethical implications and elaboration in relation to the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The essay's significance may be assessed in the challenge it offered to the usual readings of the gift in relation to the artist's work, cautiously moving toward the proposition that the gift his work delivers is the very nullification of conventional concepts. The appropriateness of Marcel Mauss's writing in The Gift on its operation and circulation in potlatch economies to the work of Gonzalez-Torres was contrasted with Derrida's thoughts on the ethics of the gift. In particular, the Derridean metaphor of ‘dehiscence' – to burst/scatter – was explored as a vector of ethical concern with particular reference to certain key works by Gonzalez-Torres. The text focused on the candy installations and the paper ‘stacks', where members of the viewing audience were permitted, indeed encouraged, to take ‘gifts' in the form of sweets from the installations or prints from the stacks, thus enacting a form of cultural dehiscence, scattering, and dissemination. |
Page range | 28-41 |
Book title | Art Becomes You!: Parody, Pastiche & the Politics of Art – Materiality in a Post Material Paradigm. |
Editors | Rogers, H. and Williamson, A. |
Publisher | Article Press |
Place of publication | UCE, Birmingham |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781873352984 |
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2006 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 13 Nov 2008 |
Output status | Published |
Language | English |
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