Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032390642 / Twarda / 2023 / 216 str.

Opis

This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.

Spis treści

Part I: Sites and Sentients  1. Performing with Trees as Shifting Attention  2. Nomadic Scenography and Fictional Space-Body  3. Urban Spaces between Norms and Dreams  4. Spatial References of Home – Moving on the Periphery of Public Space  Part II: Aesthetics and Practices  5. Photographic Parafictions (An Aside)  6. Formation of Artistic Identity – Applying Themes of Narrative Identity Development in Two Artists’ Life Stories  7. Temporal Perspectives on Arctic Peripheries  8. We, A Peripheral Time-Space-Body: Notes on Encounterinvestigation, Corpo-Reality, and the Gentleness of Stones  Part III: Visual Culture Rearticulations  9. Something is Happening in and to the Margins: Black and Brown Cultural Interventions Changing a Multiple Northern Periphery  10. Touching Gestures – An Affective Reading of a Photograph of Asylum Seekers  11. Can Artists and Lawyers See the Same Goal? Understanding the Law of Ecocide through Art, Articulations, and Creativity

O autorze

Maiju Loukola is an artist-researcher and university lecturer at the Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Helsinki.

Mari Mäkiranta is a visual artist and associate professor at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, and a docent at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies.

Jonna Tolonen is an artist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design.