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Étiqueté : air

Appel à communications : « Air and the Visual », Congrès de l’AAH, Édimbourg, date limite : 9 novembre 2015

The air is unique among the elements in having this affinity with nothingness, in signifying the being of non-being, the matter of the immaterial’ (Steven Connor, The Matter of Air, 31). The materiality of the air has long been at the forefront of our cultural and visual imaginary. Air has variously been associated with life and death, purity and pollution, circulation and stagnation. It is a thing that moves and flows across space and time. It is also a site...