Practical Aesthetics

This collection brings together artists and theoreticians to provide the first anthology of a new field: Practical Aesthetics.<br/> <br/>A work of art already contains its own criticism a knowledge of its own which need not be conceptual or propositional. Yet today there are many approaches to different forms of art that work on the brink between science and art 'sensible cognition' and proposition aesthetic knowledge and rational knowledge while thinking <i>with</i> art (or the artistic material) rather than <i>about</i> it. <br/> <br/>This volumes presents ways of thinking <i>with</i> different forms of art (film sound dance literature etc) as well as new forms of aesthetic research and presentation such as Media Philosophy the audiovisual essay fictocriticism the audio paper and Artistic Research. It reveals how writing about art can become 'artistic' or 'poetic' in its own right: not only writing about artistic effects but producing them in the first place. This takes art not as an object of (external) analysis but as a subject with a knowledge in its own right creating a co-composing 'conceptual interference pattern' between theory and practice.<br/> <br/>A 'practical aesthetics' thus understood can be described as thinking with art in order to find new ways to create worlds and thus to make the world perceivable in different ways.