Abstract

The concept of the associated milieu can be applied to the co-arising relationships that take place between an artwork, the viewer and the conditioning environment. The milieu allows for a reciprocal relational causality to emerge between these sub-ensembles so that we may conceive of spacetime as the immanent plane from where the subject and object arise. The associated milieu encompasses and overarches both the artwork and the viewer to create an open machinic assemblage which results in the generation of blocs of pure sensation made up of percepts and affects. In seeing the event as the dynamic becoming-conjunction of the environmental, the work and the viewer, the event presents itself as an individuation, as a subjective entity imbued with process where perception goes beyond the knower-known relationship to one of cognition of prehensive unity.