COMMON SCENES OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE. FROM KANT TO PINA BAUSCH

Abstract

Revealing the forms that time and space adopt when the real becomes image, and the singular way in which our intellect operates when confronted with all that images give to think, the phenomenology of aesthetic experience describes, not only the relationships between our faculties when we contemplate - without object - what is given to our senses, but also an utopia that opens our ways of seeing, thinking and doing the world to an undetermined future. Utopian seem to be, in fact, the coordinates that define it: the suspension of any interest beyond the sensible dimensions of the objects of experience, the momentary parentheses of any previous knowledge that could help in its apprehension, the irresolution of the teleological activity that rules our cognitive impulses. This paper aims to demonstrate that those transcendental determinations are more than an abstract idea, and that our creative and contemplative practices are always ran through by them, belonging to the order of common experience.