Miika Luoto: “Work, practice, event: On the “poietic”
23.10.2013 I 11 am-1:00 pm keynote and discussion
A work of art is both produced and “productive”. Coming forth from human activity, it essentially exceeds this activity as it allows the coming into presence of something. How to think about this “production”? The Greek word for production is poiêsis (which also designates “poetry); according to Plato, it means the cause of the passage from non-existence to existence. For us moderns, however, it is difficult to understand such a coming into presence that may take place either naturally or through human work. First of all, we lack the essential Greek distinction between poiesis and praxis, between production and action, and these two furthermore tend to be confused with “working” in the sense of encountering the necessities of life. As a result of this confusion, human “doing” is appreciated more and more with respect to the subjective will expressed in it, so that freedom and creativity are but manifestations of that will. Here, the “poietic” character of art is lost from sight. However, experiences made in the arts as well as in philosophy point to the need to take up again the question of poiêsis. In order to engage in a re-thinking of the meaning of “artistic practice”, we must try to return from the modern opposition between technical and aesthetic production back toward the original dimension of poiêsis, in order to be exposed – both in art and in thought, here it is the same – to the event of presence taking place in art.
By: Miika Luoto
Hand out for the lecture: (click here)
Read the whole paper online (COMING UP)
By: Miika Luoto
Hand out for the lecture: (click here)
Read the whole paper online (COMING UP)
Reports&Reflectations
23rd of October
An afternoon meeting when we were speeking with Mikka - filosopher. By: Ibon Salvador |
27th of October
Reflection on the first week
I would like to propose a series of developments and reflections from some notes, conversations and experiences on the first week of Erasmus IP 2013, Berlin, “Composition: Poetics and Procedure in Individual Performance”. I want to advance, without much assuredness, that the notes that came from Mika Luotto`s intervention, will serve here to present some general lines of thoughts as well as some suspensions and “jumps to the emptiness”. I also would like to add in this small introduction, the consideration of error and language misunderstandings as direct participants of the theme and poetry of this meeting. (continue reading)
By: Ibon Salvador
Reflection on the first week
I would like to propose a series of developments and reflections from some notes, conversations and experiences on the first week of Erasmus IP 2013, Berlin, “Composition: Poetics and Procedure in Individual Performance”. I want to advance, without much assuredness, that the notes that came from Mika Luotto`s intervention, will serve here to present some general lines of thoughts as well as some suspensions and “jumps to the emptiness”. I also would like to add in this small introduction, the consideration of error and language misunderstandings as direct participants of the theme and poetry of this meeting. (continue reading)
By: Ibon Salvador