TOKYO, Aesthetic Discourses

Source: Lier en Boog, Concepts on the Move , pp. 124-141(18)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

Participants: Curtis L. Carter, Arto Haapala, Joanne Lee & Richard Woodfield, Jos de Mul, Heinz Paetzold, Hiroshi Yoshioka.

What is the relevance of the aesthetic discourse for understanding topical artistic practice? And what is the relevance of the current artistic practice for understanding the aesthetic discourse? After all, a topical aesthetic discourse seems to be impossible without actual inspiration by visual art. A pending question remains, then, how should such discourse be conceived? A variety of suggestions emerged. A discourse departing from artistic conception while situating visual art's position in the current culture. A discourse open to the diversity of topical visual production while generating dynamic concepts. And a discourse paralleling the strategies of topical art while reflecting on the immense implications of the postmodern categories of experience i.e. postgeographic space and posthistoric time.

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Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2002-05-28