Art and the Aesthetics of Disruption

  • M. Cristina Ríos-Espinosa Profesora investigadora de tiempo completo Colegio de Arte y Cultura Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ARIS.60212
Keywords: Art, Aesthetics, play, celebration, disruption

Abstract

This essay examines art’s way of being a disruption through play, celebration and ritual, and its strength as a transformation of what is real. The analysis is based on the hermeneutic philosophy of Georg Gadamer and Bolívar Echeverría, and the aesthetics of everyday life of Katya Mandoki, all of whom have studied these disruptive phenomena as critical alternatives to the concept of aesthetics as disinterest, beauty, good taste and genius; and of art at the service of the demands of modernity. The arts are not mere material, static and anemic productions, but living spirits which make intersubjective and community recognition possible. In this sense, this research upholds the thesis of a refunctionality of art as an aesthetic disruption, to answer to the question of whether there is the possibility of a transformation of contemporary aesthetics and artistic practices in opposing servility to the demands of modernity, to unleash our sensitivity from the dominance of a productivist way of life through play and celebration as a form of rebellion in art.

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M. Cristina Ríos-Espinosa, Profesora investigadora de tiempo completo Colegio de Arte y Cultura Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana

María Cristina Ríos Espinosa es Doctora en Filosofía por la UNAM (2006). Obtuvo la Medalla al mérito académico otorgada por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM (2007). Estancia de investigación en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2005). Maestra en Filosofía por la UNAM (2001). Miembro del Consejo Directivo de la Asociación Mexicana de Estudios en Estética (AMEST, 2011- a la fecha.). Especialista en Filosofía Política, Estética y Hermenéutica política. Profesora investigadora de tiempo completo en el Colegio de Arte y Cultura de la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. Miembro de la Asociación Filosófica de México (2004-a la fecha). Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del CONACYT.

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Published
2018-10-16
How to Cite
Ríos-Espinosa M. C. (2018). Art and the Aesthetics of Disruption. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 31(1), 199-213. https://doi.org/10.5209/ARIS.60212
Issue
Vol. 31 No. 1 (2019)
Section
Articles

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