Featured Panel - Ordinary Aesthetics
University of San Jorge
Description
What is Everyday Aesthetics and how the concepts of ordinary, quotidian, ritual, banal animate the debate on the theory and philosophy of art? How does the ordinary transform our idea of 'aesthetics'? Drawing from the research of Yuriko Saito, Thomas Leddy, Katya Mandoki, Kevin Melchionne this panel aims to understand the European roots of an everyday aesthetics evoking groundbreaking theories of Maurice Blanchot and Henri Lefebvre but also Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Our focus will be on the ideas of movement, body dynamics, gestures and postures as specificities to be studied and reproduced in order to grasp the sensitive and aesthetic qualities of ordinary life. Film studies and performance art will help us understand the deepest fabric of ordinary aesthetics extending art to communicative process of sense making, connecting the arts to everyday life. The connection to ecological and political issues are key research criteria and the idea of democracy will also encourage a perspective of research aiming to blend self-inquiry and collective inquiry in order to understand the political and ecological impacts of the art process.
Plenary Panel Speakers: Elisabetta Di Stefano (University of Palermo, Italy), Barbara Formis (School of the Arts of the Sorbonne University, France), Sarah Leperchey(School of the Arts of the Sorbonne University, France), Pascale Weber (School of the Arts of the Sorbonne University, France)
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