grasping the wind? the aesthetic participation, between cognition and immersion mădălina diaconu
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Grasping the wind?
The aesthetic participation,between cognition and immersion
Mădălina Diaconu
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Conceiving art and grasping wind
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Aesthetic engagement
• Perceptual syntheses• Performing movement• Imagination and emotion• Understanding• Producing artifacts • Political commitment
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Attunement and engagement
• Melody: Perceptual syntheses• 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)
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Aisthetic engagement
• To perceive something as wind• Awareness• Multisensory pleasantness• Meteodependency
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Pleasure
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Wind and culture
• Monsoon climate• Desert climate• Meadow climate
(Watsuji Tetsuro, Fudo. Wind und Erde)
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Sense the presence of the wind
and present the wind
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Cosmology
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
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Excitement
Claude Monet, Rue Montorgueil
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Beaufort Scale
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Kinaesthetic performance
• No perception without movement (E. Husserl, G. Révész, E. Straus)
• No life without movement (G. Clément)• Intentional movements and the latent
memory of the body (M. Merleau-Ponty)
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Survival
Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, The Turin Horse
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Lightness
Žilvinas Kempinas, Flux
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Poetical participation
Imagination – Empathy – Atmosphere
“The air is all movement and nothing but movement.”(Gaston Bachelard, L’air et les songes)
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Shaping the shapelessness
Eduardo Chillida, The comb of the wind
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Sensuousness
Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti,Death in Venice
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Gothic
Emily Brontë / Fritz Eichenberg, Wuthering Heights
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Semantic interpretation
Symbolism of the windNon-material works of art
“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...”(Anish Kapoor)
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In-between
Anish Kapoor, Ascension
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Poietical engagement
• Making devices and making art• Music: let be (eolian harp), make and modulate
the wind (wind instruments)• Photography: making see the air moving around
the wing• Architecture and urban planning: hinder, filter
and shape the air streams
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Visible invisible
Etienne-Jules Marey, Smoke fillets
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Political commitment
• The wind of (socio-political) change
• „Perceptual commons“ and „perceptual claims“ (A. Berleant)
ENGAGEMENT & SENSIBILITY
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Mădălina Diaconu
University of Vienna [email protected]
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/madalina.diaconu