Through my company Aesthetic Theory, I offer services as a Theory Coach and Aesthetic Advisor. In these roles, I help people get a new perspective on problems related to things in their professional, personal, and artistic lives and projects using cultural and social theory. These services are not therapy, but helpful in a different way.
Contact: maconholt@gmail.com for more information.
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Testimonials as Aesthetic Advisor
The feedback I received from Macon Holt was constructive and thorough. He very much succeeded in creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere in which we could build both an enlightening and challenging discussion. As a scholar, he went straight to the core of my project and pointed me in the direction of future paths of research. As a writer, he was able not only to help me think about what I was writing about, but also how I was writing about it. I very much enjoyed our conversation and would not hesitate to recommend Macon Holt to anyone who was interested in a serious discussion of their work.
– Franziska Hoppe, Writer/Artist (DK)
I reached out to Macon at a time when I was starting a new project, and we had a couple of conversations about some of my emerging thoughts. Even though I was not sure what I was looking to get out of them, Macon was able to respond to pretty much anything I’d throw at him with a kind of informed musing on my thoughts in the light of philosophical theories and fields of research I wasn’t so familiar with. I approached Macon for his expertise in music but found the conversations to be much more far-ranging and deep-plunging. I feel the thing that benefited me most in my conversations with Macon was getting a new, surprising, stimulating perspective on things, him creating new connections between thoughts and me, therefore coming out of the talk with freshly exciting ways of thinking about the stuff I was engulfed in.
– Simone Mousset, Choreographer (LUX)
Often, when looking over material that Macon Holt has written for me in book reviews and exhibition texts, I find myself perplexed and baffled and ultimately teleported to a different and exciting new context for the works. He has written a great deal about my books, and these texts, as well as our conversations, have inspired a myriad of fruitful creative twists and turns. His writing is succinct, lucid and often witty with a strong personal flavour and voice. Macon Holt’s incisive, informed and witty scrutiny is sorely needed in the fog and pandemonium of our troubling time.
– Joakim Drescher, Artist and illustrator (DK)
Macon Holt has an eye for details and processes in music and related theory. Engaging with my practice as a singer and composer, he has asked curious questions and saw perspectives in my work that I was only partly aware of myself. With an interesting view on the field, he amplifies and emphasises the music scene in Copenhagen and abroad.
– Aria Leth Schütze, Musician (DK/DE)
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