Dynamics of the Intransitive

Undirected Interventions
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0843-8
Verlag: Diaphanes Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

Reihe: Intervening Arts

Artistic interventions are generally understood as procedures and practices that pursue an explicitly political or critical agenda. However, the arts can also influence social structures in non-obvious ways: questioning or reconfiguring them, interrupting routines or disrupting processes. This type of artistic intervention is characterized by a specific non-directionality that can be understood as intransitivity. 

This volume presents artistic procedures and practices that illustrate intransitive dynamics, examines their potentials and limits and puts the concept of the intransitive itself up for debate.

With contributions by Christoph Balzar, Eva Backhaus, Ilaria Biotti, Gabriele Brandstetter, Jürgen Brokoff, Eva-Maria Ciesla, Grit Dommes, Fabian von Ferrari, Susanne Hauser, Marla Heid, Ariane Jeßulat, Doris Kolesch, Brandon LaBelle, Alice Lagaay, Tim Lörke, Henning Podulski, Laura Rogalski, Andrea Schütte, Sophie Schultze-Allen, Judith Siegmund, Sue Spaid, Lara Stöhlmacher, and Mimmi Woisnitza.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Backhaus, Eva

Dommes, Grit

Lörke, Tim

Rogalski, Laura

Hauser, Susanne

Podulski, Henning

Schütte, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Über Autor(innen)

Rogalski, Laura
Laura Rogalski Laura Rogalski is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 “Intervening Arts” at Free University Berlin. As a sociologist, she focuses on cultural sociology, social theory, qualitative methods, and right-wing extremism. Her most recently published article is “On Writing Schools and Pegida Sympathizers. New-Right Literary Criticism” (in German, 2022). At the CRC 1512, she is pursuing a PhD thesis on artists’ and activists’ perspectives on the social impact of their practice.