Dynamics of the Intransitive

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.