Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course aims at developing a general epistemological reflection on the ties between contemporary art theory and sensory life. Far from setting active intelligence and sensory passivity strictly apart, my project seeks to acknowledge the decisive role played by sensitivity in constituting artistic experience. I shall proceed on the assumption that art today refers to a form of specific sensory experience, which can - through thought - be classified and interpreted as such. What are the tools that can describe this peculiar way of grasping the physical world, which carries an experience into the realm of art? What are the types of quality and/or intensity that enable us to move away from ordinary forms of sensory experience and into other types of sensory experiences, which are external to the former? In order to problematize these issues, Aesthetics, as a discipline, will have to be returned to the field of Aesthesis, i.e. of the sensory.
More specifically, we aim at thinking the aesthetic experience from the perspective of sensory modalities and their possible synesthetic interplay. Contemporary cultural and artistic productions make it possible to question the oculocentric nature of the ways in which we come to terms with the sensory. However, I shall not endeavour to challenge the predominance of the visual in our societies, nor - conversely - to promote imagery, but (1) to reflect the way in which the sense of sight is rooted in sensitivity and (2) to theorize the connections between the former and other sensory modalities (hearing and touch, in particular). With reference to theoretical proposals stemming from the fields of ecology or disability studies, i.e. areas that are often directly related to the matter of the sensory, I intend to show how contemporary art helps to elaborate alternative models for thinking the sensory.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Length and time period: 30 hours, 2nd quadrimester. Location and schedule : Lumière room, Thursdays from 13h to 15h.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
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Recommended or required readings
Texts available online.
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Any session :
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
- Remote
written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
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Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
None.
Contacts
Official instructor Maud Hagelstein, Associate researcher FNRS Department of Philosophy 7, Place du 20 Août, 2nd floor, office number 2/36A, 4000 Liège Tel. : 04/366.55.64. E-mail : Maud.Hagelstein@ulg.ac.be