robert irwin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YajsEebw89g

EXPERIENCE AS TOLD.

The world is experienced through our body and it is a sensual and emotive experience. The relationship of body, gesture and artefact is a process of intimate interaction and not just ‘action on the material world’. They are actions that are thought about and felt.

Merleau-Ponty

EXPERIENCE is the word that is most likely to express something of the felt life. It is a very

rich word, discursively open and complex, and redolent of life as lived, not just theorized.

How rich can all experience be?

experience aesthetic experience

dewey

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE carpets + walls

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE carpets

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE carpets

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE walls

richard sierra

richard sierra torqued ellipses

Francesco Borromini (25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667)

student of michelangelo

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE yours.

an aesthetic experience ….‘no experience of whatever sort is a unity unless it has (a)esthetic quality’. p.40

‘according to Dewey this quality that rounds out an experience into completeness and unity ....

an aesthetic experience ….

individual shared in the collective occurs continuously changes constantly in relationship to others + the context knowledge is a part of it is a whole, has unity has a beginning and an end = conclusive always concerned with material or immaterial things

Quintet of the Astonished bill viola

Quintet of the Astonished http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR9av-I35ME

Christ Mocked Hieronymous Bosch

Meaning arises when we try to put what culture and language have crystallized from the past, together with what we feel, wish and think about our present point in life.

V. Turner.

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE fulfills our need for a sense of meaningfulness and wholeness. It is continuous

with ordinary experience.

FUKITORIMUSHI

FUKITORIMUSHI

plato

the material world as it seems to us is not the real world, but only an image or copy of the real world. not a particular thing that is beautiful, but is instead the essence or manifestation of beauty.

beauty of the body and in the soul ..

extension M

1 readings for next week a philosphical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and the beautiful

edmund burke

due next week 20.09.10

1.  an experience that engages body + mind – an aesthetic experience. 2.  minimum of 3 images of it.

3.  750 words that reflect the research and reading and thinking embedded in your designed experience.