Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience In Contemporary Art- Christina Mills.

I've picked up some key notes and thought provoking quotes from Christina Mill's essay on Art and Materiality.

The research for this thesis focuses on how contemporary art, in all its various 

forms, functions via art’s material qualities or materiality. The objective is to 

ascertain the significance of materiality in contemporary art within the notion of 

temporal proximity and to establish the importance of the physical experience of 

works of art irregardless of whether the artwork manifests as an object, as in the case 

of painting, or as an experience as in performance art. The aim is to establish the 

fundamental relationship between the viewer and the work of art as it originates from 

material experience in all its manifestations.

Considerations of materiality can be universally applied in the aesthetic 

assessment of diverse contemporary art forms that range from traditional, low-tech 

media to conceptual, ephemeral works.

The artwork’s physicality, those aspects that can be sensed and verified by viewers, is a first 
consideration; physicality impacts content and, subsequently, meaning.