Moreover, the ultimate purpose of the contemplative science is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, but in the productive arts the end-result is an actual product (Mikkeli 1997, pp. 212-213).
In productive disciplines (i.e., arts) it is not necessary to define the objects under production as strictly as in the contemplative sciences, because the productive arts do not aim at knowledge, and thus the knowledge they need do not have to be perfect.
Contemplative philosophy appropriates nothing from the productive arts, but instead the arts adopt everything from philosophy.
Indeed, if experiments were to be developed, they would find their place in the productive arts rather than in natural philosophy.
The interminable discussion of the methodology of arts and sciences in the sixteenth century may be seen as an attempt to defend the scientific status of either the recently found autonomous sciences, like natural philosophy, or, on the other hand, the empirically based productive arts.
"Art institutions are getting bigger and bigger, culminating in a building you all know [Tate Modern] but scale, for me, is not necessarily productive for art".
Some of the artists, like Fred Brathwaite (Fab 5 Freddy) and Aaron Goodstone (Sharp) went on to have productive careers in art and entertainment.
"The structure of thinking exemplified by chiasmus," Garber writes, "works both structurally and symbolically: the productive confusion between art and life, inside and outside, container and contained was essential to both the stability and the destabilization of Shakespearean theater".
We're now advised to turn our neverending worry and uncertainty about the future into productive actions, and Art Week definitely allowed many to spill the negativity out.
This second article in my series about the absurdly productive trans-national art star Jan Fabre (the first is here) has very little to do directly with him or his work.
