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Afterword: There is nothing like a dream to create the future
As you will have by now no doubt ascertained, The dream that kicks: Transdisciplinary practice in action is a curious collection of works, which at once demonstrates and queries its subject.
In commissioning and editing this collection, I was dutifully cognisant of Antonio Gramsci’s slogan, “Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will”, which regularly appeared on the masthead of the weekly socialist newspaper L’Ordine Nuovo, that Gramsci co-edited throughout the early 1920s, as I sought to bring together a range of practitioners, (well for that matter practitioners who in their turn utilise a range of methodologies in their work), to reflect on the “volatile dispersal” (to borrow Mallarmé’s phrase) that is ‘transdisciplinary’ practice. Here, the form is considered in tandem with the content, for each contribution is creative yet practical, and represents a lob within the volley of The dream that kicks, in that they refer to each others convergent and divergent strategies, and, in that way, they are bound together as an effervescent document. In ‘Alighiero Boetti’, Vancouver-based artist Kathy Slade has stitched her way across a charismatic and key figure of contemporary visual art practice, couching as she goes a virile non-subjectivity into a recognisable mode and delivery of mass-production. Taking...
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