"Experimental Aesthetics - Working on the sightlines of the possible". Professor Dr. Ludger Schwarte, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
Auditorium 3, The Danish Design School
June 16th
15.30 - 17
The Danish Design School has invited Ludger Schwarte to speak about the status of the experiment in artistic processes on account of the 10-week module "drawing laboratory", which is running at the Danish Design School in this period. Lecturer and Ph.D. student, Anette Højlund, initiates the module. Starting from the lecture, the audience is invited to take part in a subsequent discussion about experimental artistic praxis.
Ludger Schwarte on the lecture:
"The concept "experimental aesthetics" was coined by Gustav Theodor Fechner in 1871, who wanted it to have a more empirical basis, but working on the boundaries of sensitivity, aesthetics was always experimental. Since its beginning with Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, it continued to be influenced by the experimental method developed in the sciences since Francis Bacon, but also by experimentation done in the diverse forms of artistic practices. In my talk, I want to develop a sense for the importance of a genuinely artistic experimentation, by comparing experimental artistic practices and showing the importance of theory for these practices. Artistic experimentation differs from "tinkering" and "bricolage" in that it tries to test or to negate aesthetic theories, categories, and norms. One can even analyze the recent development of the arts by distinguishing several concepts of aesthetic experimentation".
About Ludger Schwarte
Ludger Schwarte is Professor of Philosophy at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. His research areas are aesthetics, political philosophy, theory of science, architectural theory and philosophy of law. Ludger Schwarte studied philosophy, literature and political science in Münster, Berlin and Paris. Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (DEA) in Philosophy, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1993. Doctorate in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin 1997. Habilitation in philosophy at the Free University of Berlin 2007. Furthermore he is president of the German Society for Aesthetics.
Ludger Schwarte has, among other books, written Die Regeln der Intuition. Kunstphilosophie nach Adorno, Heidegger und Wittgenstein, and Philosophie der Architektur.
