Expanded Painting by Mark Titmarsh

Author:Mark Titmarsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Post aesthetic enigma

Both art and technology are modes of production and modes of revelation. All works reveal, all types of artwork and technological works share in revelation, however the nature of what is revealed is subtly yet fundamentally different in each case. It could be summarized by saying:

(i) technological works reveal functional utility,165

(ii) aesthetic works reveal affect and representation,

and

(iii) post aesthetic works reveal earth and world, that there is a process of revealing and concealing.

While both aesthetic and post aesthetic works share aeisthesis, a certain sensuous experience, the post aesthetic work involves something more. This something more is an excess that is generated by the heat of revelation, a friction and conflict between the opening of world and the withdrawing of earth. Post aesthetic revelation is not a thing in the artwork but a process generated by the artwork, it is a struggle, a strifely conflict between overlapping regions of disclosure. The artwork does not represent the strife, rather it provides a place for it to happen. This place is not the physical confines of the artwork, but the very sense of presence itself, the sense of a ‘there’ where something can have physical presence and take place.

In the artwork it is the very Da (There) that is freed up- not the actual physical contours of the work, its presence here and now, but the scene of presence itself, the ‘there is’ in excess of everything that actually is, including the artwork itself.166

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