This paper explores activist art's potential in promoting environmental awareness and community engagement, drawing from the International Socially Engaged Art Symposium (ISEAS). Focused on a Western Lapland ISEAS event, the study highlights art workshops addressing forest use conflicts facilitated by artist-scientist teams. These workshops offer a secure space for participants to express environmental concerns, fostering creative expression and dialogue. The study suggests that art-based interventions powerfully promote environmental awareness and community engagement by creating safe spaces for collaborative dialogue. Through ISEAS experiences, the paper demonstrates how activist art facilitates meaningful community engagement, fostering a deeper understanding of environmental challenges.
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This article explores how rest as resistance pushes back against self-exploitation to introduce the concept of hegemony as organic matter. The author proposes we look at present and historical hegemonies as one unified growing organism, a collective body we ourselves are a part of, and is in a state of imbalance. Homeostasis is introduced as a concept that connects care, rest and collaboration as critical elements to bring about equilibrium. The author presents their degree project: a collaboration born as a survival strategy for two exhausted and almost burnt-out students. The article concludes with a call to care.
{"title":"Collective Care Towards Homeostasis in the Collective Body","authors":"D. Martins","doi":"10.54916/rae.142255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142255","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how rest as resistance pushes back against self-exploitation to introduce the concept of hegemony as organic matter. The author proposes we look at present and historical hegemonies as one unified growing organism, a collective body we ourselves are a part of, and is in a state of imbalance. Homeostasis is introduced as a concept that connects care, rest and collaboration as critical elements to bring about equilibrium. The author presents their degree project: a collaboration born as a survival strategy for two exhausted and almost burnt-out students. The article concludes with a call to care. ","PeriodicalId":101879,"journal":{"name":"Research in Arts and Education","volume":"44 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141016950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drawing on the idea of family photography as objects of knowledge and the theory of sensory in the communicative power of photographs, this article explores how the Kreis Family Collection (1850–1980) can be presented visually and acoustically on an archival platform and how it generates new knowledge in this process. Our central result is a virtual image-sound installation that allows the same photographs to be re-imagined in three contrasting acoustic ‘moods’, based on the argument that family photography’s ‘show and tell’ is an open-ended performance, in which the user of an archival platform is asked to participate.
本文借鉴了家庭摄影作为知识对象的理念和照片传播力中的感官理论,探讨了如何在档案平台上以视觉和听觉的方式展示 Kreis 家庭收藏(1850-1980 年),以及在此过程中如何产生新的知识。我们的核心成果是一个虚拟图像-声音装置,它允许在三种对比鲜明的声音 "氛围 "中重新想象相同的照片,其论据是家庭摄影的 "展示和讲述 "是一种开放式的表演,档案平台的用户被要求参与其中。
{"title":"Re-Imagining the Collection of the Kreis Family","authors":"Ulrike Felsing, Murielle Cornut","doi":"10.54916/rae.142567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142567","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the idea of family photography as objects of knowledge and the theory of sensory in the communicative power of photographs, this article explores how the Kreis Family Collection (1850–1980) can be presented visually and acoustically on an archival platform and how it generates new knowledge in this process. Our central result is a virtual image-sound installation that allows the same photographs to be re-imagined in three contrasting acoustic ‘moods’, based on the argument that family photography’s ‘show and tell’ is an open-ended performance, in which the user of an archival platform is asked to participate.","PeriodicalId":101879,"journal":{"name":"Research in Arts and Education","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Danica Maier, Andrew Brown, Joanne Lee, Christine Stevens
This paper explores the ongoing investigation by the artist-researcher group Returns, revisiting the Spode ceramics factory in Stoke-on-Trent, England, and broader post-industrial settings. This paper describes and reflects upon the group’s ‘back stitch’ methodology (derived from embroidery), valuing the hidden under-thread that reinforces and sustains the investigation. Through collaborative dialogue, the group uses the back stitch to produce momentum by returning ‘backwards into the beneath’. The paper considers how the back stitch methodology can slow investigations to deepen understanding, enable rhizomatic complexity and support the critical potential for a community of artistic scholarship and research evidenced through the individual’s practice.
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Archival research on artist Hilma af Klint explores how feminist networks and eco-vitalist beliefs underlie The Ten Largest, the Swedish painter’s most famous work. These findings re-position the series in relation to climate breakdown, and at a time when re-imagining the connections between people and things has become a cultural imperative. How we now approach the patterns of the past is further explored, as artistic research, with the painting series Our Spectral Gardens (2021-23). Here, parallel image roots define synthetic representations of nature and a reconsideration of eco-vitalism as a force of the present.
对艺术家希尔玛-阿夫-克林特(Hilma af Klint)的档案研究探讨了女权主义网络和生态资本主义信仰如何成为这位瑞典画家最著名的作品《十大》的基础。这些研究结果重新定位了该系列作品与气候破坏之间的关系,而此时重新想象人与事物之间的联系已成为文化的当务之急。作为一项艺术研究,我们通过绘画系列《我们的幽灵花园》(2021-23 年)进一步探索了我们现在如何对待过去的模式。在这里,平行的图像根基定义了对自然的合成表述,以及对作为当代力量的生态活力的重新思考。
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Susana Patricia Chiquinque Agreda, Eliana Sanchez-Aldana, Alexandra Cuaran Jamioy, Andrea Botero
This article discusses practices surrounding the tšombiach, a traditional belt or sash woven by the Kamëntŝa people of Colombia. Aspects of the making, thinking, and feeling processes that cohere around tšombiachs are presented through weaving by eight Kamëntŝa women and the authors as a form of design research. The article considers how, through weaving, tšombiachs participate in cross-cutting care practices bound up by wrapping up, that include forms of working collectively, of summoning and sheltering, traveling, telling, and re-creating the territory. These involve caring for what is vital while interweaving practice with research.
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This article discusses an autoethnographic exploration within artistic research underpinned by performativity and temporality in photography. Inspired by a childhood photograph depicting the author's Danish grandfather, and a story about his ongoing chess through postal mail upon migrating to Argentina, the study explores the affective and performative power of photography and chess to re-imagine a personal narrative. By decentering the artist researcher’s voice, the work reveals the materiality and layers of temporal gap in the act of reimagining the past. This article contributes to the artistic through an innovative autoethnographic inquiry emerging within the transformative space integral to art practice.
{"title":"Reimagining Past Histories and Experiences through Performative Photography and Auto-ethnography","authors":"Carla Hamer","doi":"10.54916/rae.142573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142573","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses an autoethnographic exploration within artistic research underpinned by performativity and temporality in photography. Inspired by a childhood photograph depicting the author's Danish grandfather, and a story about his ongoing chess through postal mail upon migrating to Argentina, the study explores the affective and performative power of photography and chess to re-imagine a personal narrative. By decentering the artist researcher’s voice, the work reveals the materiality and layers of temporal gap in the act of reimagining the past. This article contributes to the artistic through an innovative autoethnographic inquiry emerging within the transformative space integral to art practice. ","PeriodicalId":101879,"journal":{"name":"Research in Arts and Education","volume":"75 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Traditionally, the photographic gesture has been understood through the analogy of hunting. However, this analogy fails to capture important characteristics of photography such as coexistence and chance. Through a close examination of my artistic practice, this paper revises the 'hunting analogy' and proposes the Dutch verb 'sleutelen' (a specific kind of tinkering) as an alternative way of understanding the photographic gesture. By emphasizing the process of creation and coexistence with the subject, 'sleutelen' offers a new, more social perspective on the photographic act. Sleutelen' as a photographic gesture aims to question our social and cultural perceptions of ourselves and others.
{"title":"Sleutelen as Photographic Gesture","authors":"Judith Van IJken","doi":"10.54916/rae.142515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142515","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, the photographic gesture has been understood through the analogy of hunting. However, this analogy fails to capture important characteristics of photography such as coexistence and chance. Through a close examination of my artistic practice, this paper revises the 'hunting analogy' and proposes the Dutch verb 'sleutelen' (a specific kind of tinkering) as an alternative way of understanding the photographic gesture. By emphasizing the process of creation and coexistence with the subject, 'sleutelen' offers a new, more social perspective on the photographic act. Sleutelen' as a photographic gesture aims to question our social and cultural perceptions of ourselves and others. ","PeriodicalId":101879,"journal":{"name":"Research in Arts and Education","volume":"75 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141016319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This practice-led research article explores how post-humanist and eco-feminist perspectives of entanglement and relationality challenge human exceptionalism as a basis for making architecture in the process of the Alusta research pavilion. Multisensory spatial experience, material circulation and more-than-human temporalities are explored through building a temporary pavilion for multispecies encounters in an urban museum setting. Reflecting on the project, an architectural space is understood as a continuous process of becoming enacted by various human and nonhuman forces instead of as a stable object with a sole human author. Architecture is reimagined as part of the web of care sustaining all life.
{"title":"Exploring Ecological Relationality Through Architectural Practice","authors":"Maiju Suomi, M. Mäkelä","doi":"10.54916/rae.142537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142537","url":null,"abstract":"This practice-led research article explores how post-humanist and eco-feminist perspectives of entanglement and relationality challenge human exceptionalism as a basis for making architecture in the process of the Alusta research pavilion. Multisensory spatial experience, material circulation and more-than-human temporalities are explored through building a temporary pavilion for multispecies encounters in an urban museum setting. Reflecting on the project, an architectural space is understood as a continuous process of becoming enacted by various human and nonhuman forces instead of as a stable object with a sole human author. Architecture is reimagined as part of the web of care sustaining all life. ","PeriodicalId":101879,"journal":{"name":"Research in Arts and Education","volume":"162 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141015101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Vega, Julia Valle Noronha, Gary Markle, Riikka Latva-Somppi, Sara Hulkkonen, Priska Falin, Hanna-Kaisa Korolainen, Maiju Suomi, Gianluca Giabardo
Creative productions are integral to research conducted through practices of art, design, and craft. While their significance to the generation of knowledge is increasingly recognized, productions of this kind remain deemed discretized research components. This paper illustrates how they can be better understood as fluid assemblages that enact and are enacted by change. Through a diffractive reading of nine examples of research conducted by ourselves, the paper shifts from a perspective of neatly defined outputs to one of systemic affect. We conclude by interrogating the continuity of these productions beyond academia and urging a reassessment of their broader societal value.
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