| Abstract [eng] |
What happens to the field of art under diverse gravities such as weightlessness, hypergravity, or fluctuating gravity? And—vice versa—what gravities might art itself generate? “Gravitational Aesthetics” treats gravity as an artistic medium, designing and testing devices and situations that modulate gravitational conditions to choreograph new aesthetic experiences and critical social spaces. As altered gravities migrate from labs to galleries and daily life—via amusement engineering, sports technologies, and off-world habitats—there is an urgent need for an aesthetic and ethical toolkit to guide how gravity will choreograph bodies, attention, and society. Grounded in critical design, dance, amusement-ride psychology, vehicle engineering, aerospace medicine and postphenomenology, it establishes a set of new creative approaches such as vehicular poetics, design choreography, and critical vertigo—and outlines an exodisciplinary approach for future art. In sum, gravitational aesthetics is both a cartography and provocation: a map of how weight, fall, and flight already infiltrate art practices, and a call to cultivate new gravities, on Earth and far beyond. |
