Description
Book SynopsisEmbodied Fantasies, a concept central to art history, theory and practice is concurrently a topic debated in the fields of the neuro- and cognitive sciences, philosophy and phenomenology.
This volume focuses on notions of embodiment as they relate to sexuality, aesthetics, epistemology, perception, and fantasy itself.
Approaches to modes of fantasies are explored beyond traditional conceptions to include complex thinking processes, subjectivity and inter-subjective experiences. What function do fantasies and their images possess in relation to art as a form of knowledge production?
Table of ContentsContents: C.S. Meijns: What’s Imagining Got to Do with Images? – Suzanne Anker: Bio-ethers and Luminous Ores: Welcome to Wonderland – Raúl Gómez Valverde By Sabine Flach: Sometimes I Begin with a Title – Mika Elo: (Dis) Synchronies of Vision and Touch – Esa Kirkkopelto: What Does Imagination Look Like? Notes on the Schematism of the Modalities – Sabine Flach: Negotiation and Metamorphosis: Carsten Höller’s SOMA and Matthew Barney’s Cremaster – Dawna Schuld: Plato’s Shade: Embodying the Cave in Phenomenal Art – Gerhard Scharbert: Fantasias - Experimental Induced Psychosis and Modern Aesthetics in 19th Century France – Arthur I. Miller: Creative Processes within Fantasies: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung – Gabriele Brandstetter: Fantasies of the Catastrophe: Embodiment and Kinaesthetic Awareness in the Performance-Installation of Naoko Tanaka’s «Die Scheinwerferin» – Frank Gillette: Patterns Which Connect: Embodied Fantasies – Boris Goesl: Star Arts or Celestial Embodiments: Culturally Conventionalized Constellations and Ambiguous Artistic Asterisms in the Modern Projection Planetarium – Mitchell Joachim: The Necessity of All Scales: Planetary Design in the Age of Globality – Mathias Kessler By Sabine Flach: Staging Nature – Alex Arteaga: Fantasy in a Non-Given World? – Margareta Hesse By Sabine Flach: Seeing Red – Alexander Schwan: Body-Calligraphies: Dance as an Embodied Fantasy of Writing – Shelley Rice: The Grass is Always Greener: Self-Portraiture in the Age of Facebook – Laura Taler: Spiegelei – Thyrza Nichols Goodeve: Twilight of the Artworld: From Representation to Ontology in the Work of Matthew Barney – Ellen Esrock: The Phantasmagoria of Everyday Life: The Visceral-Somatic Viewer of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Adolph Menze.
