Operative fiction: New narrative strategies
With Fiction Fiction,
visual artist Elena Peytchinska and poet Thomas Ballhausen are
continuing their linguistic/artistic exploration of space and language,
as well as with the intertwining of illustration and literature. While
their previous works FAUNA (2018) and FLORA (2020)
focused on strategies of rapprochement between the arts and the sciences
based on linguistic-artistic premises, their latest work interrogates
the relationship between the science of fiction and the fiction of
science.
Fiction Fiction presents a relational, practice-oriented model of operative fiction,
which not only encounters the supposedly unthinkable other but
integrates it as an active and necessary part of thought and creative
processes.
- Literature and/as artistic research, following on from FAUNA (2018) and FLORA (2020)
- Artistic reflections on contemporary philosophy and its sociocritical contexts
- With a foreword by Serpil Oppermann, a preface and afterword by Ferdinand Schmatz, and a variety of essays
Elena Peytchinska und Thomas Ballhausen erforschen die Verbindungen zwischen Raum und Sprache; sie leben und arbeiten in Wien.
Elena Peytchinska and Thomas Ballhausen investigate the connection between space and language; they live and work in Vienna.