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Fabienne Liptay: Practical Epistemology: William Kentridge
Practical Epistemology: William Kentridge
(p. 143 – 162)

Fabienne Liptay

Practical Epistemology: William Kentridge

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  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • aesthetics
  • art
  • art theory

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Fabienne Liptay

Fabienne Liptay is professor of film studies at the University of Zurich and member of the Center for the Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK). She directs the research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format, for which she was awarded an excellence grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on the aesthetics and theory of the moving image, the relationship between film, literature, photography, and performance, the institutional practices and curatorial concepts of film exhibition, and the aesthetic politics of film formats. Her publications include the book Telling Images: Studien zur Bildlichkeit des Films (diaphanes, 2016) and the co-edited volumes Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media (Brill, 2015), Artur Żmijewski: Kunst als Alibi (diaphanes, 2017), and Taking Measures: Usages of Formats in Film and Video Art (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2023).
Other texts by Fabienne Liptay for DIAPHANES
Dieter Mersch (ed.), Sylvia Sasse (ed.), ...: Aesthetic Theory

There is no theory that is not aesthetic in a certain way. Adorno, too, did not understand his aesthetic theory simply as a theory of the aesthetic, but was aware of the aesthetic implications of theory. At the same time we have to do with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art. So from both sides—theory and aesthetics—a link can be made to the etymological meaning of theoria, which understands the theoretical as a seeing or perspective. The book examines this link and simultaneity, focusing equally on the aesthetic implications of theory and the theoretical implications of aesthetic events.

 

With contributions by Frauke Berndt, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sandra Frimmel, Julia Gelshorn & Tristan Weddigen, Fabienne Liptay, Dieter Mersch, Klaus Müller-Wille, ­Barbara Naumann, Boris Previsic, Dorota Sajewska, ­Sylvia Sasse, Rahel Villinger, Benno Wirz, Sandro Zanetti.

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