Towards quick-response art : production, forms and reception : introduction

A defining feature of quick-response art is its lack of temporal distance from the events to which it refers. Our thesis is that this aspect has consequences for the production process, the actual artwork and its reception. Consequently, it is our goal to determine whether we can speak of a particular "quick-response aesthetic". In this dossier, we aim to do so by analyzing several case studies, contemporary examples of quick-response art. In our theoretical framework, and in particular in this introduction, it is important to stress the diachronic aspect of this phenomenon and the predecessors to which these artworks (either openly or implicitly) refer, such as the 'roman-feuilleton'.