METAESTETICA MANIFESTO
In the space of a century, Art has been driven from a representation of reality to reality itself. Thus it has abandoned the idea of reality produced by a single genius to follow subjective and self-referential interpretations or rather social consensus. Aesthetics has since long abandoned canonical beauty to engage with everyday life, although it is no longer sufficient to pursue a simplistic semiotic thinking on the Sensible (aisthesis). The need for researches in Aesthetics is more urgent than ever. This challenge requires a new Aesthetics of "Interpretation-Action". The new Aesthetics will act and emerge simultaneously in and from Reality, redefining itself each time, as in a circle. It will only be completed when Reality takes on a new and deeper meaning. Today Aesthetics becomes metaestetica. It becomes…
…a multidisciplinary study that re-examines reality itself;
..a scientific investigation that re-discusses its axioms and lays the foundations for a new debate on the Ontology of Reality;
…a structured analysis that re-formulates the limits of Phenomenology and re-structure the origins of Reality on perceptions-projections-predictions in accordance with personal experiences and interactions between individuals-phenomena-contexts;
…an extensive examination of the study of emotional effects, behavioral responses and cognitive constructs;
..a rigorous discussion that explores the creative abilities of a system of individuals representing a cultural group, or more ambitiously the whole society;
..a systematic formulation to analyze meanings, goals and habits;
…eventually…
..it becomes an open vision capable of intentionally restructuring socially shared assumptions and evolving towards a more sophisticated level of collective consciousness...
…it becomes a metaestetica vision. Carlo Santoro – Beijing, 27 March 2012
(translated from Italian Version)
