Abstrakti
This proposal addresses the relationship between art and unexpectedness through beauty.
I inquire how re-visiting beauty can mean resisting a platitudinous, naturalised stance that has become synonymous with Western tradition — beauty as an ideal —, and what are such re-visiting’s implications for the temporality of unexpectedness in artistic performing.
I handle a seamed reading of “beauty”, combining the reasonings of philosophers and aestheticians Byung-Chul Han and Andrew Benjamin, to demonstrate a convergence in sustaining a re-visiting of beauty as overwhelming a mode of thought historically dominated by oscillation and operativeness. I assert such history — or stories — has rendered beauty as expectable and unexpectable — thus paradoxically expectedly unex- pected —, as their arguments yield to specific temporalities having been ascribed to beauty. If we are to resist a predetermined beauty, does it matter to address a time of unexpectedness?
To speculate further on the time of unexpectedness — if there is such —, I turn to Juuso Tervo’s readings of Blanchot’s nocturnal ethics and aesthetics of writing, traversing it Han and Benjamin’s writings, also on Blanchot’s negations. Indeed, amidst a disaster, does the future matter?
I inquire how re-visiting beauty can mean resisting a platitudinous, naturalised stance that has become synonymous with Western tradition — beauty as an ideal —, and what are such re-visiting’s implications for the temporality of unexpectedness in artistic performing.
I handle a seamed reading of “beauty”, combining the reasonings of philosophers and aestheticians Byung-Chul Han and Andrew Benjamin, to demonstrate a convergence in sustaining a re-visiting of beauty as overwhelming a mode of thought historically dominated by oscillation and operativeness. I assert such history — or stories — has rendered beauty as expectable and unexpectable — thus paradoxically expectedly unex- pected —, as their arguments yield to specific temporalities having been ascribed to beauty. If we are to resist a predetermined beauty, does it matter to address a time of unexpectedness?
To speculate further on the time of unexpectedness — if there is such —, I turn to Juuso Tervo’s readings of Blanchot’s nocturnal ethics and aesthetics of writing, traversing it Han and Benjamin’s writings, also on Blanchot’s negations. Indeed, amidst a disaster, does the future matter?
| Alkuperäiskieli | Englanti |
|---|---|
| Tila | Julkaistu - 13 jouluk. 2023 |
| OKM-julkaisutyyppi | Ei sovellu |
| Tapahtuma | Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivät - Aalto University, Espoo, Suomi Kesto: 13 jouluk. 2023 → 15 jouluk. 2023 https://www.kulttuurintutkimuksenpaivat2023.fi/ |
Conference
| Conference | Kulttuurintutkimuksen päivät |
|---|---|
| Maa/Alue | Suomi |
| Kaupunki | Espoo |
| Ajanjakso | 13/12/2023 → 15/12/2023 |
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