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In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes' 1953 book Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual impact of the term and draws directly upon the editors' ongoing collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. The book is composed of key chapters by the editors and Burgin, a series of collaborative texts with Burgin and four commissioned essays concerned with the relationship between Barthes and Burgin in the context of the spectatorship of art. It includes an in-depth dialogue regarding Burgin's long-term reading of Barthes and a lengthy image-text, offering critical exploration of the Image (in echo of earlier theories of the Text). Also included are translations of two projections works by Burgin, 'Belledonne' and 'Prairie', which work alongside and inform the collected essays. Overall, the book provides a combined reading of both Barthes and Burgin, which in turn leads to new considerations of visual culture, the spectatorship of art and the political aesthetic.
Contents
Response/abilities of SeeingRyan Bishop and Sunil Manghani
Reading Barthes, AgainVictor Burgin and Sunil Manghani
BelledonneVictor Burgin
Part 1: Degrees and Variations
Saenredam, Barthes, BurginSunil Manghani
I was Sitting in a Room: Cybernetic Aesthetics and Victor Burgin's Projection LoopsRyan Bishop
The Situation of PracticeVictor Burgin
Part 2: Image Zero Degree
Painting, Photography, ProjectionRyan Bishop and Sunil Manghani
The End of the FrameVictor Burgin
Camera as Object and ProcessRyan Bishop, Sean Cubitt and Victor Burgin
PrairieVictor Burgin
Part 3: Writerly Readings
Pre-occupations: Calling Up Ghosts in A Place to Read and Belledonne Christine Berthin
Prairie (Argo)Kristen Kreider and James O'Leary
Photography as Rhythm: On PrairieDomietta Torlasco
The Work of Death in Burgin's BelledonneGordon Hon
Notes on Contributors Index