A Line is an Edge, is a Colour, is a Shadow: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting

Authors

  • Maegan Harbridge York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46863/ecocene.88

Keywords:

posthuman, painting, abstraction, relational, decentred human, epistemology, ethico-onto

Abstract

A line is simultaneously a colour, a texture, and a tone: It is the abutting edge of positive and negative; the touching point of autonomous bodies. Following posthumanist scholars such as Sylvia Wynter, Karen Barad, and Cary Wolfe this essay employs a series of aesthetic insights on form, gathered in an abstract painter’s studio, and applies them towards a methodology of care/full looking. Care/full looking traces the contingency of formal relationships so that a more robust ethico-onto-epistemology emerges: One that displays the entanglement of matter as it materializes and intra-acts with other bodies.

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Published

2023-06-26

How to Cite

Harbridge, M. (2023). A Line is an Edge, is a Colour, is a Shadow: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting . Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 4(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.46863/ecocene.88

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): June

Section

General Articles

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Copyright (c) 2023 Maegan Harbridge

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