Desvelar la tradición. Heterocronía y posmedialidad en Background Story de Xu Bing
Abstract
One of the consequences of globalization has been the crisis relating to historical discourses focusing on the West and the lineal concept of time. Heterochrony has become the central model for understanding the time in which we live now: diverse temporal lines that always function at the same time, in confict, in perpetual movement. contemporary artists have accounted for this experience of time better than anyone in their work, above all displaying complex temporal experience modalities. Xu Bing’s work plays an outstanding part in this refection about time. In it, we can observe clearly the meaning of heterochrony in various possible ways. In its configuration and the way it relates to the viewer, as well as the predicament that it presents; the work of this artist clearly shows an alternative to the monochronic temporality of globalization. Trough questions such as “unveiling”, “mobility of the perceptive experience” or the “rupture of the medium as a unit”, Xu Bing sets the scene of a diferent story, one that is not always told, that of behind the scenes, which is where we normally do not look. Background Story opens time and space and in doing this, also opens vision and makes us look at the world, time and tradition in a diferent way.Downloads
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