performing cultures edited by Jakub Petri performing cultures edited by Jakub Petri Cover design: Joanna Krzempek Layout: LIBRON Proofreading: Timothy Hardy Review: prof. dr hab. Grzegorz Sztabiński ISBN 978-83-65148-41-4 © Jakub Petri and Authors Krakow 2015 Publication financed by Institute of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University Wydawnictwo LIBRON – Filip Lohner al. Daszyńskiego 21/13 31–537 Kraków tel. 12 628 05 12 e-mail: [email protected] www.libron.pl Table of contents JaKUB PetRI Introduction 9 Phenomenons Everyday Aesthetics and Interculture Studies BaRBaRa SaNDRISSeR Ryukyuan Memories 15 tetSUhiro KatO Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima: Pathosformel of Winners and Losers 21 Junko NINaGaWa The Child Jesus Standing Alone: Supernatural or Yuru-chara? 31 Architecture and Urban Studies Gemma Argüello maNReSa Relational Architecture: „Voz Alta“ (Loud Voice), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer 43 tSUNeO IShIKaWa architectural Space as Fiction. Image and Design of Kenji ImaI’s “UNeSCO-Village” (1951) 53 mIKI Junko Anti-form Strategy in Architecture: Periodic Reconstruction at Ise Shrine 63 Shoko SUmIDa Ruins and Nostalgia: a Study of the Japanese modern Industrial Ruins’ Boom in the 2000s 73 marcia tIBURI Visual Right to the City: the aesthetics of “Pixação” and the case of São Paulo 81 Body and Self Fashioning Research ZhaNG XIaNGeN On Fashion and its Generating Beauty. a Perspective of Generative theory about Fashionable Dress 95 Media and Technological Research DImItRIOS maKRIS, Georgios BaRDIS, VaSILIOS Golfinopoulos, Georgios PeFaNIS, Georgios mIaOULIS theatrical text Interpretation. towards a Computer Mediated Scenography 107 ShIGeru maeDa “Pilgrimages” to Scenes from anime: Beyond the Consumption of Mass Culture 119 Processes Everyday Aesthetics and Interculture Studies YUtaKa ISShIKI the Invention of Beauty and everyday aesthetics 129 JINLI he Continuity and evolution. a Case Study of the arts of Song Dong and Zhang Huan 137 SaNNa LehtINeN Personal Space and the everyday aesthetic experience. Boundaries and Definitions 147 AgnieSZKa GRaLIńSKa-ToboreK embodying the Past – the Physical and esthetic experience Present in Some historic Performances 155 maRIa ROSa FeRNáNDeZ GómeZ the Poetic Dimension of everyday aesthetic appreciation. Perspectives from east-asian traditions 165 JaKUB PetRI Aesthetics of Snow in Heavy Snowfall Zones 173 Architecture and Urban Studies WaLDemaR J. aFFeLt Technical Heritage Resource as an Aesthetic Object: Considering aesthetic experience as a Cognitive Process 185 Gülce ÇetINeR emancipation from the museum: Street art 211 maRía aNtONIa FRíaS SaGardoy Cultural Focus in action: architecture and Urban Space 229 Body and Self Fashioning Research PeteR DOeBLeR Touched and Teased: Somatic, Dramatic, and Constructive Participation in the experience of Byzantine Icons 239 SaNDRa BeLZILe Promoting Health in Aesthetics: Towards an Application of the Somaesthetics’ Approach 249 Media and Technological Research ROSa FeRNáNDeZ URtaSUN Art, Literature, and New Technologies 261 Antoni Porczak Art between Cockpit and the Passenger 271 KRZYSZtOF maZUR Adaptive Aesthetics 279 On Authors 287 Introduction JAKUB PETRI The monography entitled “Performing Cultures” is a part of proceedings of 19th International Congress of Aesthetics which was held in Krakow, Poland in July of 2013. The meeting’s theme, “Aesthetics in Action”, provoked a fruitful debate on practical aspects of the discipline, which allowed researchers coming from different countries and cultural backgrounds to indicate and analyze areas where aesthetics applies to daily life actions. We are witnessing a strong debate concerning modern cultural relations. The 19th ICA meeting has already proven the diagnosis as many different approaches were proposed, varying from those describing cultures as lonely islands to ones of a strong transcultural character. Thus, observing and analyzing the dynam- ics of internal growth of particular cultural phenomenons appeared to be an important task for aesthetics nowadays. It was noticeable, however, that many of those papers covering cultural pro- cesses and phenomenons, were also revolving around widely understood idea of performativity in culture. The performative turn, understood as a new paradigm of knowledge, a phenomenon that exceeds the narrow meaning of performance in an artistic sense, was present as one of main ideas standing behind discussion that took place during the congress. The presence and interference of two already mentioned approaches, cultural and performative studies, brought up an idea of combining them also in the form of a special congress volume. The volume contains analyses of aesthetic practices at their roots, coming from different cultural backgrounds. It covers: – everyday aesthetics and interculture studies – architecture and urban studies – body and self fashioning researches – media and technological researches 9 Jakub Petri It is a quest to provide an aesthetic dimension for phenomenons and processes of simply performing the culture. A structure of the volume is determined by a dual division. In general, each text is assigned to one of two parts entitled: “Phenomenons” and “Processes”. In particular, each essay belongs to one of four topic groups. Phenomenons: Many congress participants dedicated their papers to narrow areas and focused their reflection on one direct cultural phenomenon. Such analysis were collected in the first part of the volume entitled “Phenomenons”. Processes: The second part of the volume is entitled “Processes” as it contains papers which tend to establish a broader research perspective, investigate sets of relations between different cultural phenomenons or are devoted especially to compound groups of phenomenons. The already mentioned division interferes with a traditional allotment with respect to discussed topics. The volume contains texts assigned to four different topic groups. Everyday aesthetics and interculture studies This group of texts contains researches examining the matter of everyday life experience and covers such areas as: conditions of a personal experience, percep- tion, aesthetic aspects of anthropological phenomenons, natural phenomenons and a role of art in a daily life experience. Architecture and urban studies Architecture and urban studies played an important role in congress debates what finds it’s manifestation in a separate module of the volume. Participants discussed not only such popular topics as a city space formation or a social “right to the city” problem but also more detailed matters as a role of technical heritage in the frames of modern city spaces and particular buildings aspects. Body and self fashioning research The somatic turn proved to be alive as it was a matter of many congress pres- entations. The body was discussed as a matter of self fashioning, but also a focus of sensual experience of different characters. The “Body and self fashioning” section of the volume covers various matters as global and local dimension of fashion, promotion of health, somaesthetics and somatic aspects of a religious experience. 10 Introduction Media and technological research Essays in this part are dedicated to matters of technology and media studies. From one hand they tend to explore connections between modern intermedia and traditional genres such as literature and theatre, from the other they explore such important cases as interface models or adaptive aesthetics developed in context of art and technology. Phenomenons Everyday Aesthetics and Interculture Studies BARBARA SANDRISSER Ryukyuan Memories We are a bridge between nations through navigation. Inscription on bell in Shuri Castle, Okinawa, cast in 1458 Now called Okinawa or traditionally in Chinese, Liuqiu or Liu-ch’iu, these small islands snake their way south from Kyushu to Taiwan. The chain is one of forty-seven Japanese prefectures. The largest island, also called Okinawa, was the scene of total devastation near the end of World War II. The shattered remains of people, landscape and culture are an apt metaphor for the ongoing pervasive destruction of war and how throughout the world small islands are considered dispensable. How does a landscape steeped in tragedy revitalize itself? New ideas carry us into the future, the general wisdom holds. Why, then, is the power of landscape so strong, and why do we persist, consciously and unconsciously, to locate ancient connections in our contemporary environment? I use the word “landscape” in its broadest sense. Landscape includes architecture, not the other way around as we are taught in most architecture schools. It includes the transient aspects of climate, night and day, and, most important yet rarely acknowledged among Western-trained architects, landscape includes people. We are landscape; land- scape is us. All of us harbor an inner landscape that merges with our outer one. Through- out our lives, what we perceive and experience intermingles with our mind, heart, and intestines.1 Ask anyone who experienced war, earthquakes, or other disasters, natural or human-wrought. Our view of the natural and built world, far from being an exact rendering, is shaped by each generation’s hopes and needs. It is also shaped by greed and arrogance, by technology, by destruction, and by what we call today “economic empowerment,” the seductive phrase of 15 Barbara Sandrisser the twenty-first century. What is not part of our contemporary agenda is the intrinsic notion of memory and the subtle yet crucial role it plays as we rush through life oblivious