Art, Otherwise Than Art

Dominique Chateau posits that post-art can be characterized by the formula: art, otherwise than art. It means that in the institutional context presently governing art, the artworks or what serves as such, including objects or acts claiming non-art, are explicitly exhibited as art while different kinds of physical or mental attitudes are allowed toward them that have nothing to do with art in the first place. It is in this art, otherwise than art context that cinema and contemporary art are mutually challenging, as can be seen in the meeting of cinema with the dispositifs of exhibition spaces; the intrusion of cinema into art or post-art places. More generally, this possibility opens news paths for creation: new filmic form, changes in the creators’ status, and the advent of exhibitions of a new kind.