WHAT DO ARTISTS TEACH US? AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THE MULTI-PARADIGM NATURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
WHAT DO ARTISTS TEACH US? AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THE MULTI-PARADIGM NATURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes and discusses selected problems and challenges that the multi-pa-radigmatic nature of contemporary art generates for aesthetic experience and discourse. It is notabout the diversity of individual practices and artistic transfigurations, but about ontic reorganiza-tions of art, determining the indicators of functioning "paradigmatic sets" (classical, conceptual,processual, interactive). Art paradigms are defined in the paper as optional domains, which areexpressions of fundamental transformations in the ontology of the artwork and artistic practice,respectively. Thus, they determine the leading contexts redefining not only the traditional ontologyof art, the identity and autonomy of the work of art, but also the competence of the author and theviewer, and finally the profile of thinking and aesthetic experience. Currently reorienting from con-templative-analytical attitudes towards processuality and various forms of activity, engagement andcausality (especially in performative practices and characteristics of participatory and interactiveart events). The approach proposed in the article also opts not to associate these artisticredefinitions and transgressions only with Theodor Adorno's diagnosis of "non-obviousness" butwith the productivity of art that stimulates our sensibility and communal imagination.

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