e102 aesthetics – how can we ‘de-modernize’ art?
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Audio/Visual
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Podcast
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Publication Year
2023
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Abstract
(ocean shoreline)
The problem with beauty is that it can distract us from reality.
Sit with me, please, take a moment. Sit and listen…
Over there, about 56 kilometers to the northeast, is the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, also known as Vancouver.
Listen to the ocean flowing, like the blood and liquids in your body. We are water.
Listen to the ravens passing by and croaking. They are poetry in motion.
Listen to the city rumbling at a distance, but it’s hard to hear, isn’t it? Let me help by filtering out high frequencies…
(cutting out of high frequencies)
Ah, there is the drone of the city.
It’s both beautiful and bewildering, isn’t it?
A plane is coming. I’ll bring back the high frequencies.
(bring back high frequencies)
The sky is littered with aircraft around here – seaplanes, jets, helicopters – but they can have a strong aesthetic effect as they inch their way across the sky, merging with the rumble of the city.
(Fading to silence)
One of the problems with modern aesthetic experiences is that we tend to choose the ones that reinforce our own world view and deny the shit around us.
Dr. Vanessa Andreotti suggests that we learn to ‘hold space for the good, the bad, the ugly and the messed up, within and around’
How can we ‘de-modernize’ art?
The problem with beauty is that it can distract us from reality.
Sit with me, please, take a moment. Sit and listen…
Over there, about 56 kilometers to the northeast, is the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, also known as Vancouver.
Listen to the ocean flowing, like the blood and liquids in your body. We are water.
Listen to the ravens passing by and croaking. They are poetry in motion.
Listen to the city rumbling at a distance, but it’s hard to hear, isn’t it? Let me help by filtering out high frequencies…
(cutting out of high frequencies)
Ah, there is the drone of the city.
It’s both beautiful and bewildering, isn’t it?
A plane is coming. I’ll bring back the high frequencies.
(bring back high frequencies)
The sky is littered with aircraft around here – seaplanes, jets, helicopters – but they can have a strong aesthetic effect as they inch their way across the sky, merging with the rumble of the city.
(Fading to silence)
One of the problems with modern aesthetic experiences is that we tend to choose the ones that reinforce our own world view and deny the shit around us.
Dr. Vanessa Andreotti suggests that we learn to ‘hold space for the good, the bad, the ugly and the messed up, within and around’
How can we ‘de-modernize’ art?
Description
https://www.conscient.ca/e102-aesthetics-how-can-we-de-modernize-art/
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