Interpassive art. Interactivity as an interpassive medium in the art reception

Abstract

Interpassivity is the inverse structure of interactivity and has been analyzed as cultural behavior by the philosophers Robert Pfaller and Slavoj Zizek. Interpassivity is delegated passivity, one is passive through the other while doing something actively, which allows one to avoid identification and subjectivation. Could we talk about interpassive art? What links would be established between interpassive art and interactive art? What would be its characteristics and conditions? A translation of the concept of interpassivity is proposed from the field of philosophy towards the space of the art reception, an original contribution of this research. A methodology based on comparative literature has been used, applying exegesis (interactivity-interpassivity) and eisegesis (interpassive art) as methods. It is concluded that all art is interactive and that interactivity as a false activity in the work of art acts as a substitute ritual act for the spectator. The fundamental paradox resides in the fact that interactivity, by diluting the distance and dissent in the art reception, becomes an interpassive medium that hinders the processes of subjectivation typical of the aesthetic experience. Interactivity allows an interpassive art. What today is called interactive art is truly an interpassive art.