Dynamics of the Intransitive : Undirected Interventions

Eva Backhaus

ISBN 10: 3035808430 / ISBN 13: 9783035808438

Published by Diaphanes Verlag Mär 2026, 2026

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Neuware - Artistic interventions are generally understood as procedures and practices that pursue an explicitly political or critical agenda. However, the arts can also influence social structures in non-obvious ways: questioning or reconfiguring them, interrupting routines or disrupting processes. This type of artistic intervention is characterized by a specific non-directionality that can be understood as intransitivity. This volume presents artistic procedures and practices that illustrate intransitive dynamics, examines their potentials and limits and puts the concept of the intransitive itself up for debate.With contributions by Christoph Balzar, Eva Backhaus, Ilaria Biotti, Gabriele Brandstetter, Jürgen Brokoff, Eva-Maria Ciesla, Grit Dommes, Fabian von Ferrari, Susanne Hauser, Marla Heid, Ariane Jeßulat, Doris Kolesch, Brandon LaBelle, Alice Lagaay, Tim Lörke, Henning Podulski, Laura Rogalski, Andrea Schütte, Sophie Schultze-Allen, Judith Siegmund, Sue Spaid, Lara Stöhlmacher, and Mimmi Woisnitza.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dynamics of the Intransitive : Undirected Interventions
• Publisher: Diaphanes Verlag Mär 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3035808430
• ISBN 13: 9783035808438
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 140H x 0D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 480 grams

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Synopsis

A volume about artistic processes and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda, yet nevertheless have a unique potential for intervention.

Artistic interventions are generally understood as procedures and practices that pursue an explicitly political or critical agenda. However, the arts can also influence social structures in non-obvious ways: questioning or reconfiguring them, interrupting routines, or disrupting processes. This type of artistic intervention is characterized by a specific non-directionality that can be understood as intransitivity. Even if these interventions are not directed toward a goal, they irritate, disturb, and interrupt. Their methods are those of repetition, refraction, and displacement. This volume presents artistic procedures and practices—framed through ideas of improvisation, obstinacy, and objectlessness—that illustrate intransitive dynamics. It examines the potentials and limits of intransitivity and puts the concept of the intransitive itself up for debate.
 

About the Authors

Eva Backhaus works as a post-doc at the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts at Freie Universität Berlin.

Grit Dommes is the scientific coordinator and managing director of the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts at Freie Universität Berlin.

Susanne Hauser is professor of art and cultural history in the architecture program at Berlin University of the Arts.

Henning Podulski is a German literature scholar and works at the University of Bonn.

Laura Rogalski is a doctoral candidate at the Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts.