Logician and philosopher of art Susanne K. Langer (1895\u20131985) is a remarkable figure of twentieth-century thought. She devoted her philosophical engagement to mathematical and linguistic questions, and had a deeply ingrained curiosity for the meaning of the forms of art. In this, Langer continued Ernst Cassirer and Alfred North Whitehead\u2019s analytical attempts to unveil the reach of symbolization processes that secure the mental substrata from which the matrices of meaning are woven. Langer regarded artistic expression as a symbolic form of its own (as presentational, non-discursive symbol), thereby \u201cscouting the possibility that rationality arises as an\u00a0elaboration of feeling\u201d (Langer 1957). Intriguingly enough, her theory positioned the form of music at the very core of a comprehensive theory of the arts.<\/p>\n
This presentation will illuminate the \u201cnew key\u201d in Langer\u2019s thought and extract core ideas that make her philosophy so applicable, and worthy of continuation in an age in which the boundaries of the artwork, concepts of authorship and aesthetic principles are challenged. I will look at the current example of Chinese artist Tianzhuo Chen\u2019s 12-hour multidisciplinary sprawling of music(s) in TRANCE, shown 2024 at the Sonic Acts Biennial, Amsterdam, as an example of art performed as a life form. This event embedded various forms of artistic expression in matrix-like settings, involving the audience on various levels of engagement, and intensities. This session is, furthermore, curious to reach out to possible theoretical junctions between Langer\u2019s philosophy and musicology. (Lona Gaikis)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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