Aesthetic abductions. Art-bio-graphy between creativity and complexity

Abstract

The 'Caviardage - Metodo Tina Festa' is known as a poetic creative writing game, in the international range of 'found poetry' practices, distinguishing itself for the epistemological richness of the foundation and its reverberations in adult life-long-learning. Tactile and epistemic exercise at the same time, method no-method, it reveals a philosophically relevant plan: abductive research practice of observation of the 'unnoticed' before, this game is similar to science, what Bateson intended as an aesthetic exercise that breaks and interrupts the taxonomic attitude to put 'thoughts in line', allows to overcome a 'cartographic image of knowledge'. The essay also presents the results of an empirical research that has been investigating the connections between this practice and its reverberations concerning processes of meta-thoughts, exploring the connections between 'poetry' as meta-modus of knowledge and un-learning as meta-modus of the most evolved reflexivity. In this perspective, the meaning of 'aesthetic' is problematized in the contexts of education in adulthood, combining the intuitions of Bateson and the theoreticians of complexity with a game/language… only apparently simple.