Kine-Synaesthetics

The traditional concept of Aesthetic experience consists of three components--Artist, Artwork, and audience. On the one hand, Dance is often treated as instance of this concept, but, on the other, it complicates it. For, a dancer is also an audience, of the Music they are performing to, in which case, the experience includes two distinct types of audience, one also a participant, the other a detached spectator. Furthermore, there are two types of both Artist and Artwork involved--musician and dancer, Music and Dance--and, while traditionally the focus of the performance is on dancing, in contexts such as Jazz and Rock, in which the Music is in part a response to the dancing, classification of the Artform in terms of traditional categories, becomes difficult. In fact, with the rise of contemporary multi-media Art, not only is classification impossible, but the very term 'Aesthetics' becomes obsolete. For, in an event which includes, for example, Music, Dance, and a light-show, which, therefore, entails an audio medium, bodily movement, and a visual movement, all in coordiation with each either, a more appropriate description would be 'Kine-Synaesthetics'. With the latter as the genus of the Art experience, 'Aesthetics' is only a species, and its traditional pre-eminence is arbitrary.