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Grasping the wind? The aesthetic participation, between cognition and immersion

Grasping the wind? The aesthetic participation, between cognition and immersion. Mădălina Diaconu. Conceiving art and grasping wind. Aesthetic engagement. Perceptual syntheses Performing movement Imagination and emotion Understanding Producing artifacts Political commitment.

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Grasping the wind? The aesthetic participation, between cognition and immersion

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  1. Grasping the wind? The aesthetic participation,between cognition and immersion Mădălina Diaconu

  2. Conceivingartandgraspingwind

  3. Aestheticengagement • Perceptual syntheses • Performing movement • Imagination and emotion • Understanding • Producing artifacts • Political commitment

  4. Attunementandengagement • Melody: Perceptualsyntheses • Imagination: “full many a thought uncall’d and undetain’d, / And many idle flitting phantasies” • Attunement: union soul-nature • Reflection: “one intellectual breeze […] and God of all” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Eolian Harp)

  5. Aistheticengagement • Toperceivesomethingaswind • Awareness • Multisensorypleasantness • Meteodependency

  6. Pleasure

  7. Wind andculture • Monsoon climate • Desert climate • Meadow climate (WatsujiTetsuro, Fudo. Wind und Erde)

  8. Sense thepresenceofthewind andpresentthewind

  9. Cosmology Sandro Botticelli, The Birthof Venus

  10. Excitement Claude Monet, Rue Montorgueil

  11. Beaufort Scale

  12. Kinaestheticperformance • Noperceptionwithoutmovement(E. Husserl, G. Révész, E. Straus) • Nolifewithoutmovement(G. Clément) • Intentional movementsandthe latent memoryofthebody(M. Merleau-Ponty)

  13. Survival Béla Tarr, ÁgnesHranitzky, The Turin Horse

  14. Lightness ŽilvinasKempinas, Flux

  15. Poetical participation Imagination – Empathy – Atmosphere “The air is all movement and nothing but movement.” (Gaston Bachelard, L’air et les songes)

  16. Shapingtheshapelessness Eduardo Chillida, The combofthe wind

  17. Sensuousness Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti, Death in Venice

  18. Gothic Emily Brontë/ Fritz Eichenberg, Wuthering Heights

  19. Semanticinterpretation Symbolismofthe wind Non-material worksofart “In Ascension what interests me is the idea of immateriality becoming an object: the smoke becomes a column. Also present in this work is the idea of Moses following a column of smoke, a column of light, in the desert...” (AnishKapoor)

  20. In-between Anish Kapoor, Ascension

  21. Poieticalengagement • Making devicesandmakingart • Music: let be (eolianharp), make andmodulatethe wind (wind instruments) • Photography: makingsee the airmovingaroundthewing • Architecture and urban planning: hinder, filter andshapetheairstreams

  22. Visible invisible Etienne-Jules Marey, Smoke fillets

  23. Political commitment • The wind of (socio-political) change • „Perceptualcommons“ and „perceptualclaims“ (A. Berleant) ENGAGEMENT & SENSIBILITY

  24. MădălinaDiaconu University of Vienna madalina.diaconu@univie.ac.at http://homepage.univie.ac.at/madalina.diaconu

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