The body is at the center of any human activity, including artistic activity, as a tangible element of its presence in the world. The body is the physical form of human identity: to act on it (even simply through “trivial” actions such as getting a tattoo, a piercing, changing hair color or cut…) is to…
Aesthetic experience is seen by some scholars as the product of several cognitive processes including perception, attention, memory, imagination, and emotion. While this is certainly true, it is almost reductive when we consider that these cognitive functions intervene even when we observe simple objects in everyday life. What is it, then, that makes the aesthetic…
What do we mean when we talk about “audiovisual installation”? Defining the ontology of such a practice is no simple undertaking. According to Rosalind Krauss, the advent of the Sony Portapak in 1964 and the consequent diffusion of the video medium in the artistic sphere caused a separation between “technical media,” those media utilized according…
