IDEOLOGY = FORM

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/ideology-form/

제목도 쎄고 시작부터 쎄게 들어가서 뭔가 해서 봤더니.

국가 없는 민주주의, 자기 통치...다 좋은데, 너무 낭만주의적인 거 아닌가??ㅎ 특히 "Ideology Materialized" 부분...무슨 희안한 건물 하나 만들면서 아치에 3개 국어를 넣었다느니 아고라라느니 뭐니.. 좀 황당하다. 결국 다시 공구리로 이야기 할 수 밖에 없는 거니...

이건 좀 다른 이야기지만 form이라는 말이 정말 많이 나오는데(transform이나 perform 등까지 합해서) 역시 서양은 form이 너무너무 중요한듯...

Visual literary means our capacity to “read” form, but also to create form. For example, one can look at the depiction in a painting (it shows Marat in a bath after having been stabbed by a political opponent), but one can also read its construction, the anatomy of its form: its materiality, its accumulated layers of paint resulting from a series of performative acts—brushstrokes. The morphology of art contains at least as much information as a description of the image that a given artwork depicts.¹⁵  

But this analysis and understanding of morphology is not limited to the confines of a painting or museum; one could, for example, engage in a morphological analysis of a parliament. If we would limit ourselves to a descriptive understanding of what a parliament depicts, we learn that it is a place where politicians and the government assemble. A morphological reading of a parliament, on the other hand, will tell us more: it shows us the parliament as an arena, as a theatrical space, where power is performed both through a specific spatial configuration, a specific number of actors, a composition of symbols, as well as an overall choreography. From a descriptive perspective, it is only of relative importance whether the parliament is circular, square, or triangular—the only thing that is important is that it’s a parliament, and functions as such: people assemble, debate, vote, and this has a certain impact on the external world. From a morphological perspective—from a perspective that reads into the form of the parliament—we understand that a square parliament creates a different spatial and social dynamic than a circle, to the point that the form and choreography of the assembly affect the outcome: an open-air parliament might produce a radically different outcome than a covered one; a parliament with benches might produce a radically different outcome than a parliament with chairs.¹⁶ Each spatial configuration, each object, each choreography inscribes a set of ideas into the performance of its actors. So while the nation-state is a construct that demands a specific performance, so do the shapes and forms through which its power is articulated and inscribed upon those speaking in its name. Ideology, in other words, has a material reality, which one can understand through morphology: through art.¹⁷ The discipline of the revolutionary practice of stateless democracy thus also affects the possibilities of the discipline of art to engage new, yet unscripted morphologies.