We can not resist the ultimate and peremptory nature of communication. In the communicative process, part of our attention tightly adheres to the object, forming a single organ alienated from us, which no longer obeys us but enjoins us. The speaker’s throat, the air through which the sound waves pass, and the listener’s ears form an organic unity. We are not able to break this unity at the level at which it occurs. We can’t stop perceiving a communicative message — it arises too rapidly for us to decide to see or not to see, to hear, or not to hear, to understand or not.
Preliminarily, it is necessary to inform you that we consider art as the space for the autonomy of аn object. Falling into this autonomy What of the object is separated from its What For. The purpose loses аnу inherent value, all different types of value may bе attached to it bу external subjects. Getting into the situation of suspension, the instrument is executed to self-denunciation, self-disclosure, the medium demonstrates its hidden nature. The precariousness and autonomy of an artistic act from any kind of values creates conditions for an ethical gesture.
Using the ultimate and peremptory nature of communication, media space has become today the agent of using speculative practices.
But the language caused us the most irritation, as an all-pervasive means of peremptory manipulation and as communication in a whole as a condition of unfreedom.
Oracle intervention at ZKM — 15 February 2018
