Abstract
Starting from the concept and practice of hospitality as a condition for the creative formulation of the new – both in thought, as in art and in life –, our research uses the work of American artist Allan Kaprow as a reference. Showing how he worked on the phenomena of everyday and common life, operating on what we call “methodologies of experience”, we will analyze how a practical methodology that opens up the possibility of new modalities of aesthetic experience, is anchored in a poetic inhabitation of the world which has hospitality as a condition – as the welcoming the “other, or “another” without reference to a self but to the openness that is required to receive, meaning creating space for the other, and for what becomes, together. Repeating, isolating, and reframing, producing conscious attention, and establishing an analytical distance over modes and habits, Kaprow´s methodologies of experience operate the counter-effectuation of states of things, creating a new plane of lived immanence – a poetic outline of life – where possibilities of composing and recomposing the world are conjured. Our theoretical itinerary, crossing philosophy, performance studies and art history will cross the core for and art of experience that is a sensitive empiricism offering alternative ways of doing life as art, in face of the hyper-aestheticized formulations and modalities of our present, guided by in the experience economy and its related dis-experience.
Presenters
Veronica MetelloIntegrated Researcher, CEIS 20, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
HOSPITALITY, ART, PERFORMANCE STUDIES, AESTHETICS, POETICS, PHILOSOPHY
