Perder la mirada. Ensimismamiento y ensoñación como prácticas (artísticas) de resistencia
- 1 <p>Universidad de La Laguna</p>
ISSN: 2386-8449
Year of publication: 2024
Issue Title: Poéticas de la inoperancia. La pereza y el rechazo del trabajo en la estética contemporánea
Issue: 11
Pages: 73-90
Type: Article
More publications in: Laocoonte : revista de estética y teoría de las artes
Abstract
Abstract Self-absorption and daydreaming are forms of a lost gaze that, even if they are considered trivial gestures or behaviours, could be defined as (audio-)visually evasive. Susceptible to being considered bodily disobedient strategies, they would, consciously or unconsciously, evade capitalist forms of sensory exploitation. This article analyses both cases of a lost gaze by relating them to dematerialized artistic practices or those indebted to the ready-made by Francis Alÿs, Roman Ondák, and Ceal Floyer. All of these try to insert other gazes into the everyday through artistic experience, attempting to dissolve the boundary between both dimensions. Keywords: Self-absorption; daydreaming; gaze; interruption; gesture.