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Stories of art: dictionary of
certainties and intuitions©
Diana Aisenberg
"It could turn the world around in a word"
José Antonio Marina
Stories of art: dictionary of certainties and
intuitions is composed of spanish words that contribute to the construction
of a discourse of present-day art with their use.
The edition of this new dictionary is made with the support of Argentine
and foreign co
llaborators from different areas of knowledge and art (artists,
critics, collectors, writers, journalists, historians, teachers
and experts in education, engineers, scientists, mathematicians,
lawyers, designers, art students). It is a collective work that
up to the 3rd of November 2001 has 206 registered collaborators.
Different types of collaborations are welcome: quotes, compilations,
authorships of meanings both real and fictional, that support the
diversity of definitions and question the very sense of the word
definition. As a result, the concept of the dictionary becomes the
object of investigation. In many cases, the register of a certain
word starts a journey that leaves its original use and crosses that
of visual arts, of diffe-rent disciplines, new technologies, including
the use of this term in colloquial language.
The universe of readings that provides the redefinition of the terms
is added to the conventional definitions. Each word has its own
context of enunciation and appears linked to the most varied textual
types: literary, philoso-phical, scientific, dialogues, personal
letters,
e-mail, texts of oral tradition, etc.
This dictionary is made by specifically digital methods. The action
consists of the sending by e-mail of a request for a definition
and its corresponding answers are edited in a program for the design
of a digital page. Until now 468 terms have been received and 287
have been edited.
The free practice of this project promotes the writing as much as
the inclusion of these texts in a bigger context. This practice
tends to create bridges betweeen the breaks in the accumulation
of knowledge that happened in our country due to the military coup
d'etat, puts concepts into circulation and renames them and becomes
a tool for enunciation in opposition to the silence of the dictatorships.
This dictionary would never exist without the permanent co-llaboration,
tenacity and insistence of the artist Marina de Caro, godmother
of the project.
Thank you very much.
Diana Aisenberg
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