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Intimacy and making : thinking constellations of consciousness and the movements of invention

Pont, Antonia 2011, Intimacy and making : thinking constellations of consciousness and the movements of invention, Axon : creative explorations, no. 1, pp. 1-1.

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Communication and Creative Arts

Title Intimacy and making : thinking constellations of consciousness and the movements of invention
Author(s) Pont, Antonia
Journal name Axon : creative explorations
Issue number 1
Start page 1
End page 1
Publisher University of Canberra
Place of publication Canberra, A. C. T.
Publication date 2011
ISSN 1838-8973
Keyword(s) consciousness
creativity
intimacy
angels
Derrida
spatiality
Summary This paper takes up the three terms - creativity, consciousness and intimacy - and positions them as possible ‘ultimate terms’. Inquiring into the use of these terms to garner approval, status or power within cultural contexts, the paper attempts to unpack them, and simultaneously to seek out any structural similarities in the ways that they operate. The term ‘creativity’ is deconstructed via a Derridean framework, wherein ‘inventiveness’ is posited as a more rigorous alternative in most cases. Consciousness is read closely in relation to its association with notions of awareness and ‘enlightenment’. And ‘intimacy’ is playfully explored as an alternative term for enlightenment, a manoeuvre which brings to the fore some structural assumptions about that which intimacy might comprise. The assumption of intimacy as a spatially-dependent notion is also interrogated. The paper contends that intimacy may involve an unsettling of spatial assumptions proper, and therefore not be simply a function of closeness or distance. It draws on Serres’ notion of the angel as messenger and as analogy for the preposition, indicator of position, but occupant of none. Finally an example from art practice is offered, one that arguably performs the terms intimacy and creativity at once: an epistolary adventure in poetry and photographs, called The Post Project.
Language eng
Field of Research 200525 Literary Theory
Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
HERDC collection year 2011
Copyright notice ©2011, Antonia Pont
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30040325
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