The purpose of this blog is to present a synthesis of several years of research
based on the concept of the geopolitical wall and the arts that surround it.
Thereby entitled:
The wall in Contemporary Art: phenomenological and geopolitical study
In brief:
In the 21st century our image of a
globalized world seems a priori paradoxical to the heavy increase in barriers
designed to create or maintain divisions. We will focus on the artistic
interpretation resulting from this paradox in the context of geopolitics,
history and social situation. How and why the Wall should make think the
artists? In a first step, historical development broadly reports the features
and contexts of our phenomenal object. Then, effective phenomenology mainly
refers to the Berlin Wall; this for an eventual metaphor to the two others
studied objects-walls: the one located in Israel and Palestine, the other
located between Mexico and the United States. Understanding of the Real is
qualified by the sovereignty of States, understanding of the Symbolic via territory
and cultural identity, and the realm of the Imaginary by the relationship with
others and with oneself. The confrontation to the border (limologie) related to
the strategy of the wall (teichos), would reveal an imbalance of principles of
universality. Eventually, globalization as an exchange of interests is the one
that would promote the existence of the object-wall; and a hyperreal perception
of the object would be more the result from artists foreign to the phenomenon.
