Emerging forms of precarity in the arts and aesthetics. Ontological precarity of body aesthetics

Abstract

The arts and aesthetics are subject to different forms of precarity, namely professional and ontological, the latter relating to different forms of social pressure on creative expression. Based on this framework and considering body aesthetics as a global aesthetic and creative domain, this presentation aims to pinpoint, on the ground of relevant literature, emerging forms of ontological precarity that affect the aesthetics of the body, namely: social expectations, criticism, gatekeeping and social instrumentalization upon body aesthetics.