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![Wassily Kandinsky [1923] Circles in a Circle. Oil on canvas, 98.7 x 96.6 cm](//img.artrabbit.com/events/osullivan-the-aesthetics-of-affect/images/bH3Od8RcDBgD/447x460/Wassily-Kandinsky-1923-Circles-in-a-Circle-Oil-on-canvas-98-7-x-96-6-cm-1458.jpg)
Wassily Kandinsky [1923] Circles in a Circle. Oil on canvas, 98.7 x 96.6 cm
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![Paul Klee [1922] Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Machine). Oil transfer drawing, watercolour and ink on paper with gouache and ink borders on board, 64.1 x 48.3 cm](//img.artrabbit.com/events/osullivan-the-aesthetics-of-affect/images/InGAOhh68pB3/338x460/Paul-Klee-1922-Twittering-Machine-Die-Zwitscher-Machine-Oil-transfer-drawing-watercolour-and-ink-on-paper-with-gouache-and-ink-borders-on-board-64-1-x-48-3-cm.jpg)
Paul Klee [1922] Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Machine). Oil transfer drawing, watercolour and ink on paper with gouache and ink borders on board, 64.1 x 48.3 cm
![Wassily Kandinsky [1923] Circles in a Circle. Oil on canvas, 98.7 x 96.6 cm](http://img.artrabbit.com/events/osullivan-the-aesthetics-of-affect/images/7j8IDVEDexUw/1458x1500/Wassily-Kandinsky-1923-Circles-in-a-Circle-Oil-on-canvas-98-7-x-96-6-cm-1458.jpg)
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Workshop
O’Sullivan: The Aesthetics of Affect
13 Jan 2017
Event times
6pm-8:30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Louise House
Address
- Dartmouth Rd
- London
England - SE23 3HZ
- United Kingdom
[SYMPOSIUM] is a monthly free and open-access reading group for artists, curators, researchers and anyone interested in the intersections between art practice and critical theory.
About
In January 2017 we will be reading The Aesthetics of Affect by Simon O’Sullivan (2001). This discussion will be chaired by Katie Tysoe.
The event is free but due to limited capacity booking is required. Please visit the website for more information, to book and download the shared document.
Simon O’Sullivan is a theorist working at the intersection of contemporary art practice, performance and continental philosophy. The text is one of his first discussions that addresses artistic practice within an emerging and growing field of affect theory – that is an interdisciplinary investigation into what makes up experience and subjectivity. He reignited the debate between materialism and idealism within philosophy, otherwise seen as the debate between matter and mind, and applied this critical debate to the realm of aesthetics. O’Sullivan addresses a philosophically materialist thinking of our connection to the world by way of critiquing representation and art historical narratives. For him, aesthetics holds certain value for how we experience art. By reassigning a function and value to art through affect, it can become a portal to the sensational and perceptive, which, for O’Sullivan acts as an ethical imperative for both our experience with art and the world in which we encounter it.
[SYMPOSIUM] brings together a supportive community of peers who discuss their research interests around specific texts every month. Decision-making is collective and anyone can propose and chair the reading of a text on a selective and voluntary basis.
