This essay explores possibilities for enactive imagining and criticism. It observes how recent enactive accounts of cognition see no divide between imagination and everyday perception, and forego... Show moreThis essay explores possibilities for enactive imagining and criticism. It observes how recent enactive accounts of cognition see no divide between imagination and everyday perception, and forego representationalism. It examines somatosensory responses and effortless vivacity for some animal-related imagery in Terence Cave’s cognitive literary criticism Thinking with Literature (2016). Next, it finds that today’s enactive criticism resonates with Francis Junius’s early modern notion of energia, a loose blend of vividness (enargeia) and vivacity (energeia), and concludes that, with its emphasis on energeia’s ‘life force’, energia goes beyond the viewer’s participation in an image’s pictorialist illusion. Pictorialist-style imagining, the essay claims, aligns with a pre-enactive representationalist understanding of cognition. To better explore enactive imagining, the essay entangles discursive writing and artistic work, animated by bird wings. Show less
The House of I. Ideology and Theory in the Netherlands' Design Education is based on the hypothesis that Dutch Art Academies, which since the emergence of (applied) art education have focused... Show moreThe House of I. Ideology and Theory in the Netherlands' Design Education is based on the hypothesis that Dutch Art Academies, which since the emergence of (applied) art education have focused expressly on training the professional artist type - in stead of a focus on the dependent artist type (the artisan) or the distanced artist type (the bohemien) - have used and/or developed forms of theory that are relevant for the current and future design education. The hypothesis is examined for Dutch art schools of Amsterdam, Arnhem, Breda, The Hague, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Rotterdam and Utrecht between 1921 and the present. Where relevant, information about the academies of Den Bosch, Enschede, Groningen and Tilburg has been added. The tree artist types and the various forms of theory are examined in the boardrooms of the art school and in the classrooms and workplaces for education in graphic, product and fashion design. Show less
This research focuses on a new field of artistic research in which a visual artist takes on the role of researcher. The main research question is whether performance art integrated in an ecumenical... Show moreThis research focuses on a new field of artistic research in which a visual artist takes on the role of researcher. The main research question is whether performance art integrated in an ecumenical service, combined with artistic directions from the artist, can enhance the religious experience of those taking part in the church service. I set my research against theology and Ritual Studies by describing my ideal image of a liturgical service and by comparing this personal view with the viewpoints of several theologians. Furthermore I examined the theories of the psychology of religion to search for an description of the concept of religious experience.The artistic experiment I set up in order to answer my main research question comprised a set of church services with several integrated performances. In this research I counted, described and analysed a total number of seven religious experiences. From the description and analyses of the experiences it became clear that these were indeed brought about by the performance rituals in the church services. Show less
