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Fig. 3.6
Tiananmen SquARed
by 4 Gentlemen, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2010, Augmented
reality public art
forcibly removed protestors from in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on
June 5, 1989. The man achieved widespread international recognition due to the
videotape and photographs taken of the incident.
3.9
Aesthetic Attitude
Konsult includes aesthetic attitude in the public sphere, to exercise and enhance
capacity to be affected. The attitude is modeled in several areas of common
experience: tourism, movies, arts and crafts. Konsult applies the vanguard project
of merging art with everyday life, not to make art, but to put the stamp of being on
becoming. Moment against dromosphere in any case attempts praxis as poiesis. It
is possible through ubimage to syncretize in one performance the three intellectual
virtues - an
act recorded as image of political import that produces understanding
for an egent
: Achilles, Pericles, and Homer in one. Despite his existentialist
credentials, Sartre was wrong (Sartre
2013
): it is possible to live and tell (at least
in electracy). Such acts constitute the distributed egency of a fifth estate in a global
public sphere.
Orhan Pamuk, in his novel
Snow
, tells the story of Ka, an exiled poet who returns
to Turkey to report on a wave of suicides, and also to reconnect with a woman he
had loved in his youth. He has not written any poetry in a number of years. But
during the events of his visit, the old creative capacity returns, at least briefly, and
he is able to write a poem. The example is relevant to us not for the poem, but
for how the feelings of significance arise in the midst of a situation, pursuing both
