De la critique des dispositifs à l'intermédialité pour approcher les productions artistiques : bilan des travaux du séminaire Intermedialidades (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France)
Résumé
The publication of this issue on “Cartographier/Mapping” provides an opportunity for Hispanist researchers at the LLA-CREATIS Laboratory (at the University of Toulouse) to reflect upon four years of research on intermediality conducted within the Intermedialidades seminar. This article presents their contributions on the linkages between intermedial tools and a decade-long research on “dispositive theory” at the LLA-CREATIS Laboratory. It stresses intermediality as a pluralistic approach that explores the “complex media midfield” (Müller) of cultural—artistic and non-artistic—products. Intermediality takes stock of the scope and sophistication of these products and provides a fine-grained analytical tool to address their multiple challenges. This article advances the hypothesis that by using this broad outlook one may outline what is specific in artistic media through the analysis of intermedial objects, under the condition that these artistic products display an intermedial artistic intent—in other words, that they reflect on the permeability, linkages, and frictions between various media, as well as on the media environment in which creation occurs.