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Renewing Aesthetics: From Art to Everyday Life
Objectives - 2012 (Accomplished)

RS1 Everyday aesthetics and contemporary art: renewing concepts and methods
  • O1: To develop a new methodological platform to approaching contemporary art, combining methods of aesthetics and art sociology.
    • 1.1 Review the most recent standpoints on the relationship between aesthetics and sociology of the arts regarding contemporary art.
    • 1.2 Analyze the operating modes of the international contemporary art world focusing on actors and institutions:
      1. identifying patterns of action/decision-making of the art world’s actors and of institutional strategy-building;
      2. assessing the operational value of the aesthetic judgment within decision-making/institutional strategy-building processes.
      Intermediary milestones: Identifying limitations and benefits of aesthetics methods and concepts.
    • 1.3 Theory building: shaping a conceptual terminology and a specific methodology related to a theoretical platform combining aesthetics and sociology discourses with respect to contemporary art.
  • O2: To determine Heidegger’s foundational works for the aesthetics of everyday, and their benefit and limits.
    • 2.1 Identify and analyze the key heideggerian concepts that have influenced contemporary aesthetics of the everyday and of how they function within its body.
RS2 Application: Aesthetic social situations and techniques of the self: body and fashion
  • O3: To explain the terms and theories used in the field of everyday aesthetics in relation to politics.
    • 3.1 Conceptual analysis of the key-terms employ in the project (aesthetic, politics, political) and the contemporary trends in everyday aesthetics.