@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/jaws.5.1.65_1, author = "Boyer, Jane", title = "Simulacra and the structure of the work of art", journal= "JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students", year = "2019", volume = "5", number = "1", pages = "65-78", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/jaws.5.1.65_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jaws.5.1.65_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2055-2831", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "artist-curator practice", keywords = "rule of convergence", keywords = "Platonic overthrow", keywords = "Gilles Deleuze", keywords = "simulacra", keywords = "floating signifier", keywords = "experience", abstract = "The concept of simulacra, with a propensity to diverge into in-betweenness, is a complex notion at the best of times. A dualistic structure of communication made up of signifier and signified that always produces a floating signifier, links simulacra with experience as an active agent of change. A story of divergence in an artwork can simultaneously affect the communication of it, even given no apparent narrative. This article then identifies three ways the simulacrum effects the communication of a work of art in artist-curator practice through the Deleuzian concept of simulacra, as a living recurrence of difference.", }