Blizina heterotopije Umetnosti ne možemo da ponudimo nikakvu postojanu definiciju zato što je ona strano (tuđe, drugo) telo u stvarnom (identifikaciji i reprezentaciji podložnom) poretku sveta. Pozicija neidentičnog je pozicija ne-mesta, ne-prisutnog, hetero-topije, i prema tome, pozicija s one strane tzv. metafizike prisustva koja, po Žaku Deridi, prožima čitavu racionalnost zapadne civilizacije. Dakle, ključni „zadatak“ umetnika danas je: da shvati heterotopijski status bar vlastite, ako ne i svake umetnosti. Problem je u tome što umentost, kao i svaki drugi fenomen kulture, može tek jednom nogom da zakorači na ovo mesto ne-mesta. Drugom nogom, ona ostaje tu gde jeste, u prljavo-praktičnom svetu ili na mestu na kojem trpi efekte razno-raznih oblika nerazumevanja. Umetnosti uvek nešto nedostaje. U svetu kakav danas jeste, ona je pravedni nedostatak! Ona je eksces ili prst u oko onom bitisanju kojem je stalo samo do bezbednog, osiguranog prisustva. Mišel Fuko je 1967. godine u pariskom udruženju arhitekata održao predavanje posvećeno „novoj nauci“ koju je nazvao heterotopologija. Mada je ostala u nacrtu (Fuko joj je posvetio samo nekoliko tekstova), ta
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The closeness of heterotopia We cannot offer to the art any stable definition because it is a foreign (alien, other) object in a real (identifiable and representable) order of the world. The position of the non-identical is a position of non-place, non-present, hetero-topia, and thus a position on the other side of so-called metaphysics of the presence which, according to Jacques Derrida, permeates the entire rationality of the western civilization. So, the key „task“ of the artist today is: to understand the heterotopic status of at least his own, if not any other, art. The problem is that art, as any other cultural phenomenon, can only set one foot to the place of non-place. With its other foot, it remains where it is, in the dirty-practical world or in a place where it suffers the effects of various forms of misunderstandings. The art always misses something. In the world that exists today, it is a just a lack! It is an excess or a poke in the eye to the being that cares only about a safe, secured presence. In 1967, Michael Foucault held a lecture in a Parisian association of architects dedicated to a „new science“ which he named heterotopology. Although it remained a draft (Foucault dedicated only several texts to it), that