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The Rhythm of Time in Everyday Aesthetics
2020
Anglo-American research on aesthetics as well as that being carried out in continental Europe are increasingly interested in the topics pertaining to everyday life. However, the label “Everyday Aesthetics” apparently conveys a surprising oxymoron. After exploring the relation between Everyday and Philosophy, I shall analyse the principal theories on Everyday Aesthetics. Then, by means of anthropological interpretative tools, such as those offered by Henri Lefebvre, I will bring to the fore the concept of rhythm, as what can shed light on the fundamental value of daily life and its cyclical alternation of ordinary and extraordinary moments. According to Lefebvre, there’s no rhythm without re…
Art in the streets. Artification strategies for public space
2019
My essay focuses on the notion of artification, recently emerged in the philosophical and artistic debate. Some case studies show that “public wall paintings” work as an artifying strategy of public space both at a superficial and at a deep level. As regard to the first, a mere decorative effect is produced; while the second, by launching projects which require the coordination of several professional skills and social actors, produces a more radical transformation. The latter notion of artification is more significant than the former because it better expresses the educational value of art and its ability to produce improvement not only of urban areas – made aesthetically more enjoyable – …
Artificare lo spazio urbano. Lo sguardo “altro” di Danisinni
2019
Se nella città di Palermo, come in altre città italiane e del mondo, l’incompiuto è segno di un percorso trasformativo che ha subito un arresto, nel rione palermitano di Danisinni l’incompiuto è simbolo di una dimensione esistenziale. Infatti, non solo dal punto di vista topografico, ma anche da quello economico e sociale Danisinni costituisce un mondo chiuso in sé stesso: è un villaggio dentro la città, ma al contempo è un luogo periferico e marginale, tagliato anche dai collegamenti pubblici. Tuttavia negli ultimi anni in questo quartiere sono stati avviati dei processi di riqualificazione urbana che hanno fatto ricorso alle arti da strada (murales, spettacoli teatrali e circensi). Il sag…
Carceral Aesthetics. Art and Everyday Life in Prison
2021
The paper aims to focus on everyday life in prison following a double perspective, a historical and a contemporary one. First, the historical phenomenon of prison graffiti will be investigated in connection with one case study: the graffiti in the prisons of the Holy Office in Palermo. Subsequently, the effect of making art in today’s prisons both on space and on inmate life will be taken into account. The overall aim of this twofold reading is to show to what extent making art in prison can be seen as a strategy of activation of those relational and familiarizing processes which bestow an aesthetic value on everyday life.
“Fare arte” per fare comunità. Strategie culturali per un nuovo umanesimo
2020
Il ripensamento della società contemporanea passa attraverso un nuovo umanesimo in cui “facendo arte” insieme gli individui si riconoscono come comunità sulla base di principi e valori condivisi. Mettendo a fuoco un concetto di arte inteso come esperienza (J. Dewey) e come cura, in linea con le teorie dell’Everyday Aesthetics e con la teoria dell’“artification” dell’etologa Ellen Dissanayake, il lavoro si propone di tracciare alcune linee interpretative che, a partire dalle criticità emerse con l’emergenza sanitaria del coronavirus, valorizzino l’arte come strategia per fare comunità.
Colors of Caviar
2012
Colors of Caviar : the star restaurant is a space of artistic representation. The chef in a high-class restaurant appears both as a craftsman who controls recipes and as an artist, fanciful, imaginative, inspired, who has to achieve performances every day. The study of the menus of top restaurants is very informative: vocabulary, language patterns and used rhetoric (metaphors, metonymies, hyperboles, etc.) serve to inform us (very few) on what we will eat and to guarantee new and extraordinary and ephemeral foods. The gastronomic restaurant as a whole is a cultural place: its decor (music, painting, architecture), its rites and rhythms (the salvation of the chef, the parade of servers, the …
Care as Key to Political Aesthetics
2022
The paper investigates the concept of care starting from Socrates and Plato to Italian Humanism, as the art of educating ourselves and others to live a good life. Taking into account some contemporary philosophical perspectives (Richard Shusterman; Yuriko Saito; Ellen Dissanayake) the author focuses on care in relation to the notion of sensitiveness, education and community. Then she claims that care has a key role within political aesthetics, understanding aesthetics as “theory of perception”, in line with the German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten.
Estetica urbana. Atmosfere e artificazione degli spazi della città
2023
Ancora uno studio su questo argomento, infatti i pochi saggi su temi analoghi non adottano una prospettiva filosofica. Il volume mira a colmare questa lacuna affrontando l’estetica urbana attraverso due paradigmi interpretativi, che talvolta nel libro vengono intrecciati: i concetti di atmosfera e di artificazione. La nozione di “atmosfera” nasce in seno alla nuova fenomenologia tedesca di Hermann Schmitz ed è declinata verso l’estetica dal filosofo Gernot Böhme che la considera un paradigma privilegiato per indagare gli spazi emozionali, intesi come frutto di relazioni affettive tra il soggetto percipiente e l’oggetto percepito. Pertanto l’estetica delle atmosfere si rivela uno strumento t…
L’esthésique et l’esthétique. La figuration de la saveur comme artification du culinaire
2013
Both ethical (value-based) and aesthetic (form-based) dimensions are used to represent foodstuffs in culinary “artification”. As is an all-important third dimension: that of aesthesics, or rather of synaesthesics, since foodstuffs play on all of our senses. However, this direct contact is lost if an image is used, and it becomes very difficult to convey what appears to be the central element in the sensory/sense-making experience (“expérience sensible”): the expression of flavour. When studying “artification”, it is interesting to see how the image affects the way these sensory/sense-making aesthesic elements take form, in order to represent (both to oneself and to others) the sensation of …
Balenciaga, the Master of Haute Couture
2020
This chapter deals with Balenciaga, a brand that carries the name of the designer known as “The Master of Haute Couture”, one of the most revered and influential fashion designers of the twentieth century. Characterized by sculptural quality, deft manipulation of textiles, and dramatic use of color and texture, Balenciaga creations are inspired by works of art and become works of art themselves through overlapping forms and genres. In this way, artification turns an elitist–but still commercial product—into a hybrid that acquires aesthetic and symbolic value and restores that aura lost due to production logics. Following this perspective, the main contribution of the chapter is to highlight…