At its core are the ideas
of poiesis: the Greek root of poetry, which means actualisation or becoming; and imminence, the sense that this actualisation takes place whenever a viewer engages with an artwork.
For Aristotle, the effects of praxis adhere to the doer, while the effects
of poiesis go beyond the maker.
Not exact matches
Art is, in Aristotelian terms, «making» (
poiesis) not «doing» (praxis); the first is the realm
of craft, the second the realm
of ethics.
In Sextant, present - tense experience and
poiesis reconnect us to the tangible (and symbolical) infinities informing our understanding
of the sensible world.
Watching the video's protagonists, weexperience the fragile and powerful space
of artistic creation, abeing - in - the - world through
poiesis.
Wilson's emphasis was thus on the embodied art (the compositions), and not on the praxis (or
poiesis)
of the artist.