Exploded diagrams and faulty parts

CDD – Compulsive Dismantling Disorder, is a quasi-diagnosis for the systematic and obsessive dissembling of objects, whereby an object becomes an exploded diagram of its parts. This is analogous to empirical research methods, whereby a human analyses an object in terms of its cumulative parts. Taken as an ontological perspective, questions of operation and dependence arise in relation to the theories of Tristan Garcia and Graham Harman. When considering the Journal of Artistic Research (JAR) in this context, an irreducible issue of potentiality is identified: selfexposition prohibits art from functioning as art-research.