Some Relations Between Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Art in Times of Crisis

• Authors: Ramos Maria Elena
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The inclusion of ethics and politics into artistic creation process is for many con- temporary creators/artists an essential motivation while they consciously act in an aes- thetic space polluted with the realities of a world in crisis. Art, which produces visible and sensible forms, can reveal aesthetic ideas and fundaments through aesthetic objects: drawing, video-installing or poem/poetry. And artists can make someone feel with their creations—whether these are beautiful, sublime, tragic, or ironic—ethical contentions violated by human action or the exertion/exercise of political power. Works of art that are not only guided by the categories signed by beauty, because in artistic languages, violence and suffering also make/create form. And times of crisis are the ideal sphere/dimension for an art that gives a vivid way of seeing/watching the uncertainty, the perversion, the terrible. In bringing these philosophical—ethical, aesthetic and polit- ical—topics, I do it from an approach that departs form artistic creations and curatorial research. I try to penetrate the narrow thread between an ethical topic and the plastic form in which it incarnates/embodies itself, or between a political action and the aes- thetic structure of language as a creative, expressive consequence.

Keywords

EN

Arts; contemporary art; ethics; aesthetics; politics; crisis; form; mediation; violence; lie; curatorial research; beauty and the horrible; the good and the evil in art

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 9-27

Contributors

author

Ramos Maria Elena

• University Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas 1000, Venezuela