The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

SECTION:

Nomadism

Knut Ove Arntzen (Bergen)
Metaphorical concepts in understanding today´s art
Metaphorische Konzepte die neue Kunst zu verstehen

Understanding the arts to day is involving the necessity of examining complexity and transgressions, which is expressed both in metaphorical concepts originating from geography, natural sience as well as the arts themselves. The question of the gaze has replaced the hierarchic way of understanding, as a result of the deconstruction of meaning as something symmetric, easy to grasp by semiotics or decoding. Even the load of knowledge in itself is too big to be rationalized upon by "closed" systems of understanding. Thus art and knowledge about art expresses itself images and allegories, like we also can see in the reallegorization of for instance dramaturgy. I want to give some examples of this, and a small introduciton to nomadological thinking.

THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES