Note: These definitions, though provisory, have been motivated from the interior of the situation project and they do not intend anything less than allowing other friction channels within themselves. I would like to thank the work basis found in the ERA Dictionary and the careful proof reading by Anxela Caramés, Antonio Díaz Correa, Christina Ferreira and María Álvarez-Cebrián.
Accident
1. It is said of an event that changes the regular prevision of things. The possibility of recovery is the assumption of the consequences of the accident, such as a new order; and the other possibility is the literal reconstruction of the previous one.
2. In a certain situation it is this element that permits the articulation of incidental principles.
Action
1. Authentic exercising of action possibilities. It carries intention and implicit gesture, that is, a necessary movement. From a regular point of view, the actions are good or bad according to how they are produced in benefit or in prejudice of others.
2. Effect that an actor causes on something. According to an art review an artistic action can be good or bad, answering to its value or its quality.
3. It deals with the sequence of events and accidents that during its development reveals the condition of a built in web.
Actor
1. Someone who performs a role whether it is public or private.
2. Subject of an action or an act.
3. Synonym of an author, such as an actor of a concrete intellectual production, that is, a convention, a mark a mask, or pretence.
1. Who does or has the virtue of doing.
2. A person or a thing that produces a relative effect on a previous activity, which can be of an environmental nature or of some direct order.
3. Person who creates the scenery where events can happen and where accidents are susceptible to happen.
Ambiguity
1. Quality that any language has which gives place to doubt, and which makes it impossible for us to leave everything understandable and that turns each communication into a risk.
2. Quality that everyone has which gives place to doubt.
Artist
1. Fundamental actor in the production of any work of art, and in spite of this, occupies a marginal place in its former system.
Birthday: event
1. Happening, repetitive event in time that celebrates the passage of a concrete period related to another event that had previously occurred.
2. Mechanism through which historiography reports are publicly legitimized.
3. Institutional mechanism that legitimizes its own reports, that is, central gear of the institutionalization machine.
Commissioner
1. A kind of agent who provokes artistic actions and who is surrounded by a discursive pole. By definition, their practices are, at the same time, ambiguous and self-referential exercises.
2. Actor who articulates a narrative, not necessarily written down.
Community
1. Quality of something that does not belong to anyone in particular, but it belongs and expands itself to many.
2. A group of people who share some physical, political or mental space.
3. A group of people who share an interest, a complex, a trauma or an instigating agent.
4. A group of people who live together under certain rules – such as monasticism.
Communion
1. Participation in commonplace things that are an unconditional acceptance of belonging to a community.
2. From a religious point of view, it is said of a non-active participation in the management of material redistribution.
3. The belying of one to the effect of the common: serialization, standardization.
Complex
1. A group or union of two or more things that results in a more difficult grade than in only one.
2. Basic quality of every system.
3. Bunch of ideas, emotions and tendencies usually restrained and associated to the subject or collective experiences that disturb their behavior. When they affect a group, they are susceptible to consolidation as a representation.
Conceptualism
1. It is said about art that needs to be something and not just anything.
Consensus
1. Agreement produced through the consent of all members of a community. The existence of the consensus is determined competition, or the absence of it.
Context
1. A collection of material and immaterial conditions that make possible the carrying out of an action.
2. Reading place of any accident
3. Material, environment or climate that participate in the success of an action or product.
Contradiction
1. Action and effect of contradicting.
2. Action and effect of contradicting each other.
3. Basic methodology of every complex, non-regulated system.
Convention
1. Rule or practice tactically admitted that answers to precedence or habit. In a system such as the artistic one, as well astrophysics, conventions are established pressures over a super specialized common knowledge.
Crisis
1. Situation of a subject or process when their continuation, modification or suspension is put in doubt.
2. It is said about a situation motivated by an event or a series of events where a system turns its complexity keener to suffer a possible transformation.
3. Among the possible concepts, a crisis is something that with more intensity the reading of a representation is determined.
Critic
1. Pertaining to or related to the critics.
2. Pertaining to or related to the crisis, subject to dislocated discomfort.
3. Decisive, determined.
4. It is said of the agent who discharges criticism.
Culture
1. An immaterial link that produces meaning in society. It is as a place of difficulty, of a specific struggle that implicates in challenges to certain sensory regimes and orders of representation.
Diagnostic
1. Analysis motivated by the possibility or an effect of a crisis or an accident that determines certain actions of prevention and/or healing.
Device
1. Mechanism or artifice prepared to produce a foreseen action.
2. Something that allows at the same time articulation, channeling and reproduction of accidents.
3. Equally that artistic action or commissioner that generates structure. In this sense, the structural system of art is like corrugated paper, filled with supporting points that turn it rigid, fold by fold, a structure that was modified from the original.
Emergent
1. Something that is born, and arises and has its beginning in another one. In this sense the emergent artists are nowadays the fruits of a system, integrated into the basis of a productive context that defines them as agents.
Expectancy
1. Enthusiasm to achieve something.
2. Reasonable possibility that something will occur.
Experience
1. Group of events, accidents and interchanges generated during a lifetime.
2. It is said about something that is achieved once you have accomplished an event, accident or crisis.
3. It is said about the situation in which someone experiences a happening, faces up to a crisis or suffers an accident.
Fascicle
1. Deliver.
2. Packet of Muscular fibers.
Fiction
1. Traditionally the opposite of reality.
2. Narrative construction product of a process or of a community. The fictionalization can be as intense as the experience that allows replacing reality by fiction.
Fold
1. Folds are the opposite of protrusion. A sequence of folds and counter-folds is similar to the structure of interpretation under questioning when it is reconstructed. In addition, it is a usual texture in any communitarian work, with tensions and dimensions, with arguments and climax.
Game
1. Entertaining exercise subject to rules in which you can win or lose.
2. Ability or smartness to achieve something.
Glossary
1. Catalog of obscure and unused words with the definition or explanation for each one.
2. Catalog of words of the same subject and from the same defined and commented field of study
Image
1. Formalization of a representation.
2. The trigger for subjectivity: a figure that in its decoding experience justifies an identification process or its opposite by which we deal with the subjectivity.
Institution
1. Organism that performs a function of public interest.
2. Complex related to governmental power.
Institutionalization
1. Action that leads to public interest.
2. Accident that turns public interest into governmental.
Interference
1. Action or effect of interfering that is, modifying the normal process of things.
2. Accidental agency.
Interstice
1. A gap or a space, usually small, which is placed between two bodies or between two parts of the same body. It is not a hollow place, an empty place without any function but a division filled with content with a simple structural function: without interstitial tissues, the organs would not have limits and therefore they could not carry out their function.
Interview
1. Interlocution between two or more people in some concrete place to deal with or solve a subject.
2. Place for the dialog, exchange, questioning and community consolidation.
Investigate
1. Perform intellectual and experimental actions with the proposal of increasing knowledge on a specific matter.
2. Perform intellectual and experimental actions to find out what a previous intuition existed of.
Knowledge
1. The immaterial that increase value of things within different social economies.
2. Fundamental capital of any agent.
3. Central corps of institutional production whose reason of existence is its own communication.
Labyrinth
1. Something confusing and entwined, hard to understand, however the will to solve it can turn it into a game and pleasure.
Legitimize
1. Acquisition process of the coercive power over the community and its actors by an agent.
2. Achieving a consensus that something minor is reconsidered as a fundamental one.
3. Dynamic of the marking the territory of actions in a certain context.
Literality
1. Reproduction of what was said or written, such as a copy cat that only produces itself.
Machine
1. A device designed to use, direct or regulate the action of a power.
Micro politics
1. Type of politics that is applied to lesser ones, personal systems and to the government itself.
Narration
1. Act or effect of narrating.
2. Description, method in which is expressed all that is susceptible in reading: an exhibition of a work of art or a publication.
3. Structural process of representation.
Naturalization
1. To admit to something strange in a system as if it were consubstantial to it.
2. Making it possible for a species to acquire the necessary conditions to live and perpetuate in a different environment from that which they have come from.
Negotiation
1. Continuous adjusting between two aspects in which both elements search for the most favorable.
Opacity
1. What obstructs the passage of light is the opposite of diaphanous. Metaphorically, it is said of the current works of art that include mechanisms to deny access to a reading that is not arched, labyrinthine, difficult.
Pathetic
1. Quality of things, actions and people that restores the provisional aspect of individual constructions.
Pathos
1. That which is able to move or agitate the spirit infusing into it vehement affections such as humor or sadness.
Performance
1. Quality of any interpretation of the meaning of a text produced on the reader at the time of reading.
Politics
1. Art, doctrine or opinion referring to the government.
2. Activity of those who conduct or desire to conduct the public issues.
3. Activities of citizens when they interfere in public or private issues of society. The exercise of an opinion or the activity of any reading can be politics. Every act on representation is so.
4. A group of practices that determines the strategies for structuring or reformulating the problematic of a certain game.
Problem
1. A group of circumstances that makes carrying out an aim more difficult.
2. A way of naming the principal knots of a weave that goes through some crisis or suffers an accident.
Production
1. Process from which a result can be obtained from a previous reversal.
2. Total amount of some process results. A production can be material or immaterial. Together with investigation, it is impossible to quantify the immaterial ones.
Professional
1. Person who does his/her occupation with relevant ability and effort.
Professionalism
1. It is said about the system that is the effect of professional efficacy that legitimizes the work carried out or to be executed. It is a reproductive system opposite to pathetic.
Programming
1. Inventing the necessary strategies that will allow the execution of a project.
2. Plan or writing of a basis narrative for an institution.
Project
1. Design or thinking to carry something out.
2. Previous creation, expression of the times and production process of things that over a medium or long period of time a function of a material reality is intended.
Public
1. Group of people with the same affinities or preferences that participate in a specific place where they think they are susceptible to reactions or to accidents.
2. Communities possessed with a low intellect organized according to their relations, objects of institutional efforts to carry on or to canalize.
Questionnaire
1. Place where it is allowed to question or to have doubts on what has been asserted by somebody.
Reading
1. Act of reading.
2. Interpretation of a text that generates a new one. Just because it will never be the same as the original one, a reading will always be a bad interpretation and that is the difference that produces subjectivity effects.
Relation
1. Connection or correspondence to one thing or another.
2. Connection or communication of one person with another.
3. The affective bond based on the duration that supports a significant sequence.
Representation
1. Act or effect of representing.
2. Being an image or a symbol of something, or imitate it perfectly.
3. It is said of reality how exactly it is read and experienced.
Review
1. Group of public judgments on a work, a concert, a show, etc.
2. Place where the potential contradictions inherent to all complex systems are virtually updated
Scene
1. Everything that is represented before an audience.
2. Success that is considered noteworthy.
3. Spectacular and pretence acting with the intention of being moved.
4. The word ‘scene’ is used to talk about the community of senses created around contemporary art and which actively participates in its own development.
Self-reference
1. A characteristic of an intellectual exercise, traditional to modernity, which allows itself to be spoken about as well as communicating the issue under discussion.
Situate
1. Transporting from one position to another, dislocating, disestablishing.
Specificity
1. Adequacy of something to its final destiny.
Structure
1. Distribution and order of the parts of anything.
2. A determined group of elements that allows and articulates the generation of a complexity. The work with representation is clearly structural: in a system such as an artistic one, the actions are interdependent and configure and build the structure at each given movement.
Subject
1. Exposed or liable to something.
2. The agent that does not enunciate but is the object of a predicate.
3. It is said about the one who is encouraged by an act of language.
Subjection
1. Act of subjecting.
Territory
1. Portion of the earth’s surface that has a higher level of wealth than the any other.
2. Abstract terrain or a concrete place where a certain agent or a group of agents linked by professionalism operate and protect it against the invasion of others.
Text
1. Enunciation or some coherent groups of oral or written statements as well as the resulting complexity of its superposition.
2. Any organization of signs susceptible to reading.
Texture
1. Disposal of the elements of a complex
2. Weaving operation.
Trespass
1. Violation of a precept, a law or a statute that undermine the principles that belong to a certain community.
