Stephen Wright / USE — Unidentified Sophic Encounters

What happens when artists go AWOL, go underground, drop off the radar, only to reemerge elsewhere, far from the frames of the artworld, living a kind of “double life” — playing for real, as it were, yet also seeing what they’re doing as somehow informed by art? What kind of exchanges transpire in such undercover operations? What modes of knowledge are mobilized? And what is purpose or use-value of such forms of USE — Unidentified Sophic Encounters?

Stephen Wright is an art writer and professor of the practice of theory at the European School of Visual Arts (www.eesi.eu) in France. Over the past decade, his research has examined the ongoing usological turn in art-related practice, focusing on the shift from modernist categories of autonomy to an art premised on usership rather than spectatorship. A selection of his texts may be found on the collective blog n.e.w.s. www.northeastwestsouth.net.

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