State of Flux
Aesthetics of Fluid Materials
by Daniel Becker, Andrea Haarer, Tim Ingold, Ralf Liptau, Olga Moskatova, Kassandra Nakas, Dietmar Rubel and Luke Smythe and edited by Marcel Finke and Friedrich Weltzien
Fluid materials are distinctive. They can spill, leak, mix, and dissipate. Fluids tend to movement and transformation: they bear witness to a material world in constant change. Due to their dynamic and processual flow, liquids run counter to ideas of matter as ready-made, inert or passive. Currents of materials undermine attempts of reification, and they bring about the fluctuation of meaning. Fluid materials are in a state of productive flux. This volume presents studies that reflect upon and with materials in motion. Drawing on examples from film, painting, installation art, architecture, or photography, the essays explore the aesthetic and epistemic potentials of fluids. Instead of thinking about the imagery of fluidity, they focus on actual liquids such as foam, water, ink, or chemicals.
- By (author) Daniel Becker
- By (author) Andrea Haarer
- By (author) Tim Ingold
- By (author) Ralf Liptau
- By (author) Olga Moskatova
- By (author) Kassandra Nakas
- By (author) Dietmar Rubel
- By (author) Luke Smythe
- Edited by Marcel Finke
- Edited by Friedrich Weltzien
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