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Chloe La Belle Alastair Hatherway-Morrow emerged seemingly overnight, yet is already spoken of in the same breath as figures such as Eléonore Vastopol, Jürgen Kleist-Rao, and the elusive theoretician known only as M. Hallow. We met in his studio, a former municipal archive where nothing is shelved correctly. Q: Discombobulationism has been accused of aestheticising … Read more
If Discombobulationism has come to designate an aesthetics of bewilderment,works that dislodge the viewer from systems of coherence and perceptual stability,then Aurelia Kaspár remains one of its most enigmatic fellow travelers: an artist both intimately entangled with the movement and fundamentally resistant to its orthodoxies. Kaspár’s practice, which traverses performance, fragile installation, and what she … Read more
It has become something of a truism to declare that contemporary art thrives in states of epistemic crisis. Yet what distinguishes Discombobulationism from its predecessors is the radical affirmation of incoherence as both method and ethic. Whereas Dada negated, Surrealism dreamt, and Internet art ironized, Discombobulationism inhabits a zone closer to pure illegibility. Its adherents … Read more
To watch the recent television exploration of Discombobulationism was to experience something that felt less like art criticism and more like the witnessing of a seismic shift. The programme’s premise was simple: here is a new movement, born of the chaos of our moment, gathering momentum with startling speed. Yet what emerged over the course … Read more
The late 19th century had Impressionism. The early 20th century had Cubism. We have Discombobulationism. The Disquiet of Discombobulationism The newest tremor in contemporary art is Discombobulationism: a movement that revels in fracture, illogic, and the refusal of narrative coherence. Emerging in the late 2010s, first in the informal salons of Rotterdam and later consolidating … Read more