A conference paper proposal Choreo-graphic Figures: The Notion
>< Notation of Figuring (developed in collaboration with
Nikolaus Gansterer and Mariella Greil as part of the project Choreo-graphic
Figures: Deviations from the Line) has been accepted for inclusion in the
forthcoming conference, How
to Do Things with Art, 11
- 13 November 2015, Aarlborg,
Denmark.
About
the conference: This conference argues that we
must account for the intensity of art, otherwise we can only explain part of
our aesthetic experience. This argument is found in critics as diverse as Brian
Massumi, Charles Altieri, and Sianne Ngai. Philosophers such as Alfred North
Whitehead, Henri Bergson, and Steven Shaviro have argued that much of our
perception is not cognitive but intuitive; we connect to the world through our
senses. The conference is part of a debate on how to understand our sensory
perception of art as part of a larger process. Where most aesthetic and
cultural research has focused on matters of meaning, signification, and
hermeneutics, this conference asks questions of aisthesis, sensation, and
feeling. More than representation, more than form, art is production. New
materialisms, affect theories, performativity theories, and
actor-network-theories have all shown that the artwork is never passive, never
inert. Art produces sensations, new modes of being, new knowledges, and new
feelings. Not a matter of rejecting earlier findings, we are simply trying to
explore the 'other side' of the experience of art. Cognition and feeling are
not distinct but articulated together; their relation changes depending on the
specific artwork.
By
exploring the sensory experience of art, we can also understand the
intersection of art, culture, and politics in new ways. Art produces new
subject positions and becomes a doorway to new experiences, new sensations, and
new modes of thought. In this way, art expands our world, becoming a motor for
cultural and political manifestations. A process-oriented approach to art
extends current approaches, revealing that thought, act, and creativity cannot
be separated. Instead of observing a distinction between work and subject, process-oriented
approaches instead turn to individuation as the mode of becoming, insisting
that we are always more than one and art adds to this more than one. Key
note speakers: Erin Manning, University
Research Chair at Concordia University, Canada; Brian
Massumi, Professor at Université de Montréal, Canada; Frederik
Tygstrup, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Our abstract for the conference can be read below.
Our abstract for the conference can be read below.
