Breakdowns (Introduction & Terms Used)

1. Accidents (Duchamp’s Assemblage of Allegory)

The Large Glass & Étant Donnés - shattered surfaces as method, delay as strategy.

Allegory as a machine, always broken, always waiting for meaning to catch up.

Collisions & Cracks: Art history as impact mechanics - what happens when images and concepts crash?

2. Speed Limits (Esotericism & Delay in Modernism to the Present)

Duchamp’s concept of ‘delay’: A game of distances, measured not in miles but in semantic slippage.

From Baudelaire to Benjamin, from Dada to Post-Internet Art - each acceleration meets its own inertia field.

Can art outrun its own obsolescence, or is every work already a ruin of its own intention?

3. Driving Conditions (Traffic Jams, Road Works, Uneven Surfaces – Artistic Strategies of Resistance)

Bottlenecks in the network: museum bureaucracy, art fairs, NFTs, artificial scarcity.

Traffic congestion as methodology: Institutional critique, détournement, opacity, and the refusal to be productive.

The speed of contemporary art circulation vs. the slow sabotage of meaning.

4. "All-Over The Road" (Slippages, Lay-bys, and Services – Hijacks and Detours of Museums, Art as Commodity, and the Art Market)

Museum as rest stop - a place to pause before continuing the journey elsewhere.

Hijacked vehicles: Ready-mades, art market manipulations, viral disruptions.

The paradox of service stations - artworks as consumable fuel yet always returning to zero.

5. Driving Tips (False Starts; Jasper Johns; Disguises and Cul-de-sacs Within Conceptual Art)

Conceptual art as a series of false turns - maps that lead nowhere.

The art world’s cul-de-sacs: Infinite self-referential loops masquerading as progress.

Disguises as tactics: The artwork as a camouflage vehicle, blending into the landscape of capital.

6. Car Rental And Fly/Drive (Postmodernism; Daniel Buren, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, The Guerrilla Girls, etc.)

The artist as a temporary driver - operating within a system that can be leased but never owned.

Appropriation as car theft: Taking the vehicle of representation and rerouting its destination.

Postmodernism as an international rental scheme - picking up aesthetics from one city and dropping them off in another.

7. Route Directions: “Where Do We Go From Here?” (La Route Jura-Paris / Magic Motorways / Macintosh Motorways)

The impact of computer technologies on current art production - images moving at quantum speeds, artworks appearing and disappearing in the blink of an algorithm.

The Silicon Superhighway: The automated circulation of art beyond authorship, beyond intent.

Following Signs (Post-): The urgency of escaping the art market, but where to?