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Logic / Tool /Aesthetic

aesthetic: a theory or idea of what is valid at a given time, place, context, culture
logic: an interrelation or sequence of facts or events
tool: anything used as a means of accomplishing a task, purpose, or creation

An aesthetic has no inherent tool or logic.
A tool has no inherent logic or aesthetic.
A logic has no inherent aesthetic or tool.

Hypothesis 1:
When a new phenomena arises, its logic, tool, and aesthetics are inseparable and indistinguishable.

Hypothesis 2:
As time progresses, the logic, tool, and aesthetic of said phenomenon begin to separate and become distinct.

Question 1:
What does the distance between 2 points of this triangle represent?

Question 2:
What does the size of the angle at each point represent?

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core, floor, contact

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The distances between elements can vary.

The number of floor contacts per individual can vary.

The number of contact surfaces between individuals can vary.

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A Contradiction

Practice-led researchers are formulating a third species of research, one that stands in alignment with, but separate to, the established quantitative and qualitative research traditions. – p. 22

‘the research methods of the hard sciences are closer to those of research in the arts than the methods and models of the humanities’. – p. 40

The difference, perhaps, is that the mathematical problem also has an answer while an arts practice is not analytic in this way. – p. 63

(all from Practice as Research in the Arts by Robin Nelson 2013)

I would propose that the last quotation contradicts the previous two. In the third, Nelson writes that an arts practice is not analytical and cannot have an answer. Why can’t an arts practice be analytical in the same/similar way? PaR’ers are, after all, creating a third species of research, and the arts are closer to the hard sciences than the humanities.

This third species that Nelson writes about quoting Brad Haseman, if the arts are closer to the hard sciences, could then be an analytical artistic practice.