Witz und Ästhetik

Practising Aspect Change

“…22 This is an effect we want to map onto artistic practice and research by distinguishing it from current views on the productive role of wit in the arts. 23 [ ... ] the enabling concept here being that of defamiliarization or making strange ( ostranenie ), the ability of the artistic construct to slow down perception and make the audience see the object in question as if for the first time. 24 The theoretical concept of this focuses on a blind spot in our lives : the way we 'see' the world essentially is the way the world is to us.…”