Courting Dissolution: Adumbration, Alterity, and the Dislocation of Sacrifice from Space to Image

This book ultimately attempts to break a cyclical system that causes everything to disappear into representation and equivalency.. Examining ideas of disappearance put forth by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, he utilizes art as a means for investigating loss of potentiality and experience through the representation of space, shifting their ideas – originally ascribed to objects – into a new emphasis. Focusing on the otherness of space to prevent its ultimate dissolution, Lent promotes a spatial practice of radical alterity. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and "raw" phenomenology of Jean Baudrillard as a challenge to a system of disappearance. Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonization and subsequent dissolution

. As an artist, researcher, and academic working with visual and textual media, he investigates non-productive expenditure in art and culture and specifically how these ideas relate to space. Michael Lent is head of fine art at the University of Teesside, UK

. About the Author Michael Lent is head of fine art at the University of Teesside, UK. As an artist, researcher, and academic working with visual and textual media, he investigates non-productive expenditure in art and culture and specifically how these ideas relate to space