Post-human thought is permeating the art discourse, with philosophical foundations based on care for other species and a removal of human as the centre of the human universe. In this editorial, we can read about the articles published in this issue and the ways they intertwine with each other and the concepts that seep through this ethical movement. Some counterarguments will also be offered as a way to critically challenge the momentum these perspectives are taking and as a way of not losing focus on the reasons why they emerged in the first place.
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In this editorial, the editor-in-chief reaches out to JAWS’s readership to shed light on the internal workings of the journal’s team and introduces the articles published in this volume. Having finally overcome many difficulties due to COVID-19’s epidemic backlash, JAWS is continuing to publish relevant and exciting arts writing.
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Fluid Grounds is a practice-based research project which investigates existing water management strategies in London, as well as exploring alternatives. It brings together immersive research, regenerative design and contemporary modes of production. This results in a strategic analysis and critical positioning for creative practices within climate change adaptation practices. Additionally, two speculative provocations: Higher Grounds, a configuration of water and land product archetypes, and Extended Foliage, a series of 3D ceramics printed form studies, demonstrate the possibilities of regenerative design in uncertain conditions.
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These are a few of the infinite numbers of stories that were documented and analysed during a six-month observation of a single overlooked ecosystem and the connection it has to us and its surroundings. They are the stories of a single London pavement crack.
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‘Becoming-animal’, a concept devised by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, provides me with a springboard to explore new insights and perspectives outside the human experience. As an art practitioner, I enter paradoxical spaces between the wild and the domestic, to encounter non-human animals. Through shape-shifting and attuning to local ecologies, I enter these entangled worlds using both a playful and serious intent. I use a camera switched to auto and other technologies to create films and sound works from these multispecies alliances and to consider what it might be like to be non-human. These then undergo a transformative process and are given space to become something beyond my control. Ultimately, they create alternative ways of seeing and thinking about interspecies relationships. Sheepology, a film and sound work to emerge from this process, offers the viewer an opportunity to move across the human–non-human boundary, into other alien worlds and domains, to become undone and co-inhabit a multispecies environment. I plan to examine the implications of these multispecies alliances for creating a shift in awareness of the biodiversity emergency.
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Review of: Sensors, Particles and Other Compounds, Inês Teles, curated by Alexandre Baptista Tea Salon, Municipal Park of Alta Vila, Águeda, Portugal, 14 January–22 February 2023
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Most once-popular UK children’s comics have now ceased publication. This includes Misty. Aimed specifically at girls between the ages of 8 and 14, Misty was a comic that consisted entirely of frightening fiction and articles based on the supernatural and horror. My research into the popularity of Misty in its ‘heyday’ considered the cultural background at the time of publication, how this was reflected in Misty in terms of perceptions of the zeitgeist at the time of Misty’s publication and how this may have influenced the content of the stories contained within it. I also identified and applied critical concepts specifically with reference to the Misty serials ‘Moonchild’ and ‘The Sentinels’, and the one-off story ‘The Treatment’. With these methods in mind, the possible underlying reasons for the popularity of the stories contained in Misty were examined. However, Misty was first and foremost a piece of fiction in comic format. Thus, academic values aside, my research led me to consider the creative process behind its production and I approached Misty’s consultant editor and contributing writer, Pat Mills, ‘the godfather of comics’, who revealed his creative process. This article analyses Mills’s own subjective step-by-step process for creating a comic, which he names The Formula, and its potential to inform contemporary comics in the form of a guide.
{"title":"Pat Mills’s Formula: ‘The Godfather of British comics’s’ step-by-step guide to creating girls’ comic stories","authors":"Catherine Louise Wild","doi":"10.1386/jaws_00036_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaws_00036_1","url":null,"abstract":"Most once-popular UK children’s comics have now ceased publication. This includes Misty. Aimed specifically at girls between the ages of 8 and 14, Misty was a comic that consisted entirely of frightening fiction and articles based on the supernatural and horror. My research into the popularity of Misty in its ‘heyday’ considered the cultural background at the time of publication, how this was reflected in Misty in terms of perceptions of the zeitgeist at the time of Misty’s publication and how this may have influenced the content of the stories contained within it. I also identified and applied critical concepts specifically with reference to the Misty serials ‘Moonchild’ and ‘The Sentinels’, and the one-off story ‘The Treatment’. With these methods in mind, the possible underlying reasons for the popularity of the stories contained in Misty were examined. However, Misty was first and foremost a piece of fiction in comic format. Thus, academic values aside, my research led me to consider the creative process behind its production and I approached Misty’s consultant editor and contributing writer, Pat Mills, ‘the godfather of comics’, who revealed his creative process. This article analyses Mills’s own subjective step-by-step process for creating a comic, which he names The Formula, and its potential to inform contemporary comics in the form of a guide.","PeriodicalId":244127,"journal":{"name":"JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students","volume":"266 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116397178","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 article will examine claims that photography can reveal truths about the world with a particular emphasis on camera-less techniques, their claim to realism and their utilization in both late nineteenth-century science and contemporary art photography. I will critique the late twentieth-century work of Floris Neusüss, whose photograms of the unclothed female form were exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2010. It will be argued that the photogram slips the grasp of contemporary gender analysis within visual culture, despite the camera-less process’s associations with a tactful, scientific truth. Understood through their psychoanalytic subtext, Neussus’s images are revealed as compliant with well-worn clichés of female passivity, both in what they represent and in the singularity of their method of production.
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This study focused on how the urban environment of a Greek city, Patras, visually bore witness to the impact that COVID-19 has had within its public spaces. It also focused on how the human involvement is reflected on the city surfaces, and even its absence denotes the new conditions caused by the pandemic. Time appeared to be frozen on the city surfaces and its visual remainders point to a previous era, when a pandemic may have sounded more like a sci-fi scenario, or over the ‘breaks’ of successive lockdowns. In order to record and document the fragmented spatial and temporal actualities, I relied on fine art practices such as photography, photogrammetry and 3D models for the production of an archive of the current historic imperative.
{"title":"Urban fragments ‘on hold’: Reflections of COVID-19 in the urban Greek environment","authors":"P. Ferentinos","doi":"10.1386/jaws_00033_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaws_00033_1","url":null,"abstract":"This study focused on how the urban environment of a Greek city, Patras, visually bore witness to the impact that COVID-19 has had within its public spaces. It also focused on how the human involvement is reflected on the city surfaces, and even its absence denotes the new conditions caused by the pandemic. Time appeared to be frozen on the city surfaces and its visual remainders point to a previous era, when a pandemic may have sounded more like a sci-fi scenario, or over the ‘breaks’ of successive lockdowns. In order to record and document the fragmented spatial and temporal actualities, I relied on fine art practices such as photography, photogrammetry and 3D models for the production of an archive of the current historic imperative.","PeriodicalId":244127,"journal":{"name":"JAWS: Journal of Arts Writing by Students","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127981793","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 investigation into the author’s master’s thesis in architecture starts from an observation that our current ways of coping with waste sustain an obliviousness and feed a lack of responsibility towards the waste we produce and the way it is treated. Moving towards more effective ecological living patterns, but deviating from a strong adherence to technology, raises the question of how architecture can trigger a shift in mindsets on how we deal with waste. While ecological thinking and acting in the field of architecture are often focused on materials and their cycles of re-use and durability, the waste this research consciously takes interest in is of a more uncanny kind. Human bodily waste is the waste exchanged by mediation of the architectural element of the toilet. Instead of focusing on a fast and total removal of waste from our home, can architecture apply principles of care for waste as a vibrant matter? Aspiring to evoke ecological awareness, a low-tech toilet design is scrutinized in this article for its potential to perform care from a thigmophiliac point of view, as well as for producing compost.
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