No. 1 (2014): Singular Practices and the Public Sphere
This issue places us on the relational condition of the artistic phenomenon and allows for the arising of questions that may orient the writing process. Particularly, we are referring to the relation between the dimension occupied by singular productions and creations (both those carried out by individualities and by any type of intersubjectivity) and the presence of these processes in the public sphere in any of its manifestations.
Sometimes, creation takes place in an individual dimension; sometimes, in a collective one; however, sooner or later, in real-time or not, artistic productions allow for the encounter between artists and the public. Here, a patchwork of multiple possible approaches takes place: What are the consequences of opening an artistic production to an audience? Which proposals are put forward by the artist to make the spectator create something? Is the spectator perceived as an individual or as a sort of assembly member built in a community? Which other possibilities allow the artists to integrate the audience in the process of creation (and not only in the display of the production)? Which connections can take place between singular and collective desires as the driving forces of artistic and social creations?
Some possible responses are put forward in this issue.
