Interview with Thomas Speck: “You Don’t Want to Build an Oak Tree – You Want to Invent It.” Plants as Active Matter

Friedman, Michaël; Krauthausen, Karin; Speck, Thomas

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“…It is obvious that the potato must be part of the galvanic cell so that the juices within it can act as an electrolyte. One of the potato's inherent dynamics could be the developmental stages it undergoes as an edible tuber of the potato plant (Friedman et al 2021), or the spoilage or decomposition process that it undergoes.…”

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Not Only a Matter of Electricity–Rethinking Materiality with Victor Grippo’s Energía de una papa (1972)

Senkpiel

2023

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In order to consider the materiality of Victor Grippo’s artwork Energía de una papa (1972) more comprehensively than has thus far been the case, the specific characteristics of this case study are initially discussed against the background of the relationship between materiality and conceptual art. In a further step, the artwork’s agency is questioned, and it is regarded in the context of positions within new materialism. This is done by utilizing certain aspects of Karen Barad’s concept of “agential realism” in an examination of Grippo’s artwork. Our thesis is that while the Baradian approach is able to explain materiality within the functioning of the case study, the complex embedding of materiality and symbolic factors for the context of the art require an even broader perspective. Finally, the different layers of materiality—the material presence and the immaterial, less tangible aspects—are considered together in order to show their indispensable entanglement in generating the artwork’s meaning. It is not just the potato as food-as-art-material or the voltameter as a ready-made that must be our focus, but all the organic, non-human materials and the non-tangible elements involved in the artistic work, as well as the human being who sets the process in motion.

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Section: Materiality Ii: Rethinking Grippo's Potato Battery Through N...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Not Only a Matter of Electricity–Rethinking Materiality with Victor Grippo’s Energía de una papa (1972)

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2023

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Interview with Thomas Speck: “You Don’t Want to Build an Oak Tree – You Want to Invent It.” Plants as Active Matter

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Not Only a Matter of Electricity–Rethinking Materiality with Victor Grippo’s Energía de una papa (1972)

Not Only a Matter of Electricity–Rethinking Materiality with Victor Grippo’s Energía de una papa (1972)

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