Spontaneity on parole
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In recent years, participation and interactivity have become two key words in the vocabulary of art criticism. It is not by chance that both these models insist on a form of performative spectatorship, based essentially on three concepts: presentness, immediateness and unframedness. The challenge posed by this type of spectatorship concerns a fundamental concept for aesthetics (already with Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment), and that is that of spontaneity. In fact, the creation of an “unframed” space and an immediate experience precisely at increasing the “spontaneity effect,” fuelled by the active involvement of a spectator “immersed” physically (and emotionally) within an environment/work that is programmed to welcome and receive its intervention. Except that spontaneity is, by definition, something that cannot be achieved if sought intentionally. This is precisely the challenge posed by interactivity.
DOI: 10.54103/ai/24079
Author: Andrea D'Ammando
Institution: Sapienza University of Rome
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408675041