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Towards a Post-Secular Aesthetics: Provocations for Possible Media in Afterlife Art
Abou Farman
Can we make art after we die? What are the possible media for an art of the afterlife? To consider the possibility seriously is not to revisit work that deals with grief and dying, or with the mere representation of the afterlife. It is not to ask the disenchanted to return to the open arms of the Church. 1 But it does require that we reexamine the limits around our ideas of transformation; it does require that we parse “the secular” as the background code that determines the parameters…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2013
Category
Ideology, Capitalism
Subjects
Death, Biopolitics, Secularism, Memory, Museology, Artificial intelligence