Project Details
Projekt
SFB 626: Esthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits
Subject Area
Humanities
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Term
from 2003 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5485744
The rationale behind the Collaborative Research Centre derives from the observation of two recent cultural developments: firstly, the ever-increasing intermedial networking among the arts, and secondly, the gradual dissolution of a firm distinction between art and non-art in response to the ubiquitous trend to apply the aesthetic gaze to the world in which we live. Both of these artistic developments have a parallel in an attitude that approaches even the world beyond the realm of art in increasingly aesthetic terms.
Confronted with this breakdown of boundaries, on the one hand between the arts, and on the other between art and non-art, the Collaborative Research Centre raises the opposing questions of whether and to what extent one can speak of a "characteristic form of aesthetic experience", whether this latter encompasses a "characteristic form of artistic experience", and finally, whether art embraces "particular types of experience for discrete art disciplines". The objective is to ascertain, firstly, the causes and motives behind the dissolution of boundaries just described, and secondly the consequences thereof. The more the pragmatic approach to the world becomes overlaid by one which is essentially aesthetic, the more desirable it becomes to understand the content, processes and functions of aesthetic experience.
In addition, the Collaborative Research Centre is concerned with the question of how academic aesthetics can respond appropriately to a development whereby art seeks increasingly to elude that very discipline. By focussing on the concept of aesthetic experience, it becomes possible to overcome older essential, formalist or normative definitions of the art object that are no longer adequate to contemporary art. For when viewed from this perspective, the terms "aesthetic" or "art" entail not so much a particular property of the object as a specific way of interacting with that object.
Confronted with this breakdown of boundaries, on the one hand between the arts, and on the other between art and non-art, the Collaborative Research Centre raises the opposing questions of whether and to what extent one can speak of a "characteristic form of aesthetic experience", whether this latter encompasses a "characteristic form of artistic experience", and finally, whether art embraces "particular types of experience for discrete art disciplines". The objective is to ascertain, firstly, the causes and motives behind the dissolution of boundaries just described, and secondly the consequences thereof. The more the pragmatic approach to the world becomes overlaid by one which is essentially aesthetic, the more desirable it becomes to understand the content, processes and functions of aesthetic experience.
In addition, the Collaborative Research Centre is concerned with the question of how academic aesthetics can respond appropriately to a development whereby art seeks increasingly to elude that very discipline. By focussing on the concept of aesthetic experience, it becomes possible to overcome older essential, formalist or normative definitions of the art object that are no longer adequate to contemporary art. For when viewed from this perspective, the terms "aesthetic" or "art" entail not so much a particular property of the object as a specific way of interacting with that object.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed projects
- A01 - Ästhetische Erfahrung und visuelles Wissen (Project Head Busch, Werner )
- A02 - Protomodernes Sehen zwischen ästhitischer Weltwahrnehmung und wissenschaftlichem Objetktivitätsanspruch (Project Heads Daston, Lorraine ; Fiorentini, Erna )
- A03 - Expansions in the Experience of Objects in Art and Design since the 1960s (Project Head Lüthy, Michael )
- A04 - Fictionality as a Form of Temporal Experience (Project Head Witte, Georg )
- A05 - Dementis ästhetischer Erfahrbarkeit und Versuche ihrer Restitution (Project Head Mattenklott, Gert )
- A07 - Immanent Dissolution in Contemporary Artistic Praxis and Experience (Project Head Krüger, Klaus )
- A08 - Aisthesis und Bildproduktion. Ästhetische und epistemische Koordinaten ca. 1750 - 1900 (Project Head Fiorentini, Erna )
- A10 - Evocation of Reality as Artistic Method (Project Head Gludovatz, Karin )
- A11 - The Television Series as Aesthetic Form (Project Head Morsch, Thomas )
- A12 - Entgrenzungen von Kunst/Werk und Ding (Project Head Geimer, Peter )
- B01 - Die Spezifik der ästhetischen Erfahrung des Wortkunstwerks (Project Head Küpper, Joachim )
- B02 - Aesthetic Experience as Liminal Experience (Project Head Fischer-Lichte, Erika )
- B03 - The Impact of Illusion and Fiction on the Aesthetics of Film (Project Head Koch, Gertrud )
- B04 - Aesthetic Diversification as the Future of Music? (Project Head Riethmüller, Albrecht )
- B06 - Topographies of the Ephemeral. Choreography as Proceeding (Project Head Brandstetter, Gabriele )
- B07 - The Politics of Aesthetics in Western European Cinema (Project Head Kappelhoff, Hermann )
- B08 - The Interrelated Dynamics of Display and Situation within Aesthetic Reflection (Project Head Stemmrich, Gregor )
- B09 - Poetics of Improbability (Project Head Vogl, Joseph )
- C01 - Ästhetisierungsprozesse im Spiegel der praktischen und der theoretischen Philosophie (Project Head Menke, Christoph )
- C02 - Antike Konzepte ästhetischer Erfahrung und ihre moderne Rezeption (Project Head Seidensticker, Bernd )
- C3 - Die indische rasa-Lehre als Konzept ästhetischer Erfahrung und das Spektrum ihrer Gegenstände (Project Head Malinar, Angelika )
- C5 - Bedingungen kognitiver Flüssigkeit bei der ästhetischen Erfahrung (Project Head Leder, Helmut )
- C07 - Inspiration and Subversion: Artistic Creation as Aesthetic-Religious Experience (Project Head Schlesier, Renate )
- C08 - Ästhetische Dimensionen der arabischen Sprache: Text, Bild, Klang und künstlerisches Artefakt (Project Head Neuwirth, Angelika )
- C09 - Aesthetic "Liveliness": Making-Present - Present Tense - Presence (Project Heads Menninghaus, Winfried ; Witte, Georg )
- C10 - Intermediale Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen "hoher" und "niederer" Kunst. Zur Soziologie ästhetischer Erfahrung (Project Head Wolf, Norbert Christian )
- C13 - Sensory and Symbolic Reflexivity in Aesthetic Media (Project Head Bertram, Georg W. )
- C14 - Aesthetic Theory of Juridical Judgments (Project Head Möllers, Christoph )
- Z - Central administration (Project Head Lüthy, Michael )
Applicant Institution
Freie Universität Berlin
Participating University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Spokesperson
Professorin Dr. Gertrud Koch
