Context
“The significance and the meaning of words vary according to the changing context. The precise derivation of a term becomes a matter of interpretation.”[1]
[1] The artistic research: the language issuen SARN, 2014
If nothing is ever free of context, can context than become the material itself?
The idea of making something within a certain context might even be more related to the context that other people create.
The reaction of the Other is context.
People and how they perceive things might actually be the biggest part of shaping something, the biggest authority.
In line with Levinas,
not only the work would exist by confirmation of the Other.
but also, me?
Context is everything.
Knowing I am an anthropologist might shape the context explaining a focus on power relations and authority.