Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367869274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str.

Falk Heinrich

Opis

This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form which necessitates the audience’s action in the unfolding of the piece as often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations.Taking into consideration established theories of beauty from Plato, Hume, Kant, Mothersill, and Gadamer, Heinri

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. On the Ambiguity of the Notion of Beauty  3. Technology – Unity and Distinctions  4. To Do – On the Immediacy of Performative Beauty  5. To Act – On the Beauty of Interaction  6. To Perform – On Beauty as Realization  7. The Beauty of Acts  8. Beauty in a Participatory Culture

O autorze

Falk Heinrich is an associate professor and head of studies (School of Communication, Art, and Technology) at Aalborg University, Denmark and has worked as an actor, theatre director, and installation artist.