{"id":677,"date":"2026-08-08T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/?page_id=677"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:49:56","slug":"re-enacting-tableaus-an-encyclopaedia-about-the-aesthetic-function-of-images-handling-complexity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/?page_id=677","title":{"rendered":"A Reflection on Re-Enacting Tableaus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Micha Payer<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Year<br><\/strong>&nbsp;2019\u20132023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Supervisor<br><\/strong>Paul Petritsch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reflective Documentation<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at\/view\/o:71643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at\/view\/o:71643\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-34.png 1024w, https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-34-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/grafik-34-768x548.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Photo Credit<\/strong> <em>Drawings as Tableaus from the Series \u201cIn Defense of the Accidental\u201d: (pill, branches, bacteria, resistors, unconnected determinations, elites, drones) 2017-2019 ink, graphit powder, pencil and crayon on paper each 29,7 x 21 cm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my research project I want to examine Encyclopaedias and Tableaus as historical precursors for the structure of knowledge in contemporary scientific visual aids of all disciplines as well as in displays \u2013 summarized in images handling complexity in the Age of \u201cGoogle\u201c and \u201cWikipedia\u201c. In form of an Artbook, structured as Encyclopaedia with alphabetically ordered texts, I want to collect keywords related to the term Tableau as synopsis of knowledge and as \u201cthe totality of what is representable\u201c (Foucault). Through exploring formal-aesthetic characteristics of Tableaus and their descendants I want to create \u201emeta-pictures\u201c as equivalent and balanced juxtapositions to texts as treatises, that circle the philosophical conceptions of difference and repetition, singularity and universality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micha Payer Year&nbsp;2019\u20132023 SupervisorPaul Petritsch Reflective Documentationhttps:\/\/phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at\/view\/o:71643\u00a0 In my research project I want to examine Encyclopaedias and Tableaus as historical precursors for the structure of knowledge in contemporary scientific visual aids of all disciplines as well as in displays \u2013 summarized in images handling complexity in the Age of \u201cGoogle\u201c and \u201cWikipedia\u201c. In form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-677","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/677\/revisions\/794"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phd-in-art.uni-ak.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}