Aesthetic Dividuations in a Globalized Art World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22030781 |
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| Authors | Michaela Ott (Hochschule für bildende Künste, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AM Journal of Art and Media Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2217-9666 • E-ISSN: 2406-1654 |
| Publisher | Faculty of Media and Communication (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25038/am.v0i21.356 |
| OpenAlex | W3017384747 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
As a professor of philosophy in the art academy of Hamburg, I deal with contemporary art practices; as a theorist of aesthetics I try to determine what kind of aesthetic and artistic developments seem to be significant for our times, and which kind of philosophical theories I can offer in order to better conceptualize and understand the given art productions. At the same time, I attempt to transcend contemporary tendencies and concepts and to foster students’ art practices in a way that makes them meaningful for the future. This lecture seeks to provide a possible interpretation of actual art practices in a globalized world, reflecting also on big art exhibitions such as Documenta 14 and on African films. It sketches a specific aesthetic program called Afropolitanism as an understanding which could be conceived of as paradigmatic for our globalized times. Afropolitanism is a term coined by the South African theorist Achille Mbembe in one of his 2010 book Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisé. Starting from there I want to offer a philosophical concept that goes far beyond the European context and hopes to provide a possible conceptual frame for a more complex understanding of the culturally and artistically entangled and hybridized expressions of our days, including those of human subjectivation. I call this concept dividuation as I have explained further in my book Dividuations: Theories of Participation, which was published in English in 2018. Article received: December 15, 2019; Article accepted: January 31, 2029; Published online: April 15, 2020; Original scholarly paper
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Contemporary art · Epistemology · Exhibition · Linguistics · Painting · Performance art · Sociology · Visual arts · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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