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Plural Identities and Collective Authorship: Group Experiences in Contemporary Art

2025 · Phenomenology and Mind · Vol 29, pp. 162 · 0 citations

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This paper intends to provide some historical and philosophical insights to reflect upon the enduring impact of group experiences which, since the post-war period, have constituted an important peculiarity in the landscape of contemporary arts. We will reconstruct some of the reasons that have led artists to seek new paths of subjectivation through collective creation: moving across the technological experimentation of the groups of the 1960s, the political militancy of the collectives of the 1970s, the format of the artistic acronym of the 1980s and the new possibilities opened up by the Net in the 1990s, we will retrace the deconstruction of the romantic mythology of the author, as it has traditionally been consolidated. By emphasizing shared creative processes, these practices propose innovative models of identity and subjectivity that transcend individual boundaries and reflect the complex interplay of technology, politics, and social interaction in contemporary art.

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