Imagining Imagination - Epistemology and Aesthetics of Visual Thinking

(with the SVA - School of Visual Arts, New York City) own sub-project: "Embodied Fantasies" The research project Epistemology and Aesthetics of Visual Thinking is working on the development of a theory of Imaginatio and Fantasia and the 'inner, mental image', which is being developed together with partners from neuroscience, cultural studies, psychology and media studies and whose genuinely interdisciplinary basis I am discussing from an art-scientific perspective using research objects from contemporary art and theory. The research study Embodied Fantasies examines how - primarily in artistic works - fantasy and imagination are embodied, which epistemes they form, how factual fantasy is and how the sense of images, the pictorial sense and the pictorial sense can be described.

Publication:

Suzanne Anker / Sabine Flach (eds.): Embodied Fantasies: Frome Awe to Artifice, Peter Lang, 2013