scholarly journals Performance, Memory, and the Archive: A Conversation with Arsinée Khanjian

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Marie-Aude Baronian ◽  
Erica Biolchini
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Diasporic Identity

Abstract The notion of performance holds a profoundly polysemic nuance within the field of the humanities and the arts. For the present issue of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, we challenge the traditional significance of perfoming arts by unveiling how artistic practices disclose important avenues for (re)thinking the question of memory and archive as well as Armenianness, cultural and diasporic identity, the female body, and political engagement. To reflect upon these various issues, we sat down with Arsinée Khanjian and shared our experiences of viewing artistic performances as well as our understanding of the significance of performance for Armenian studies.

scholarly journals Officina: experiments in engaging with the arts

Modern Italy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Francesca Billiani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Organic Intellectual ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article is primarily concerned with interconnections between forms of impegno (political engagement) and aesthetic choices, as they were articulated in the literary and cultural journal Officina. In order to reassess the role of Officina within the Italian cultural and political debate of the day, this article considers two main narratives unfolding in the journal: the aesthetic rejection of Novecentismo, understood as the epitome of artistic autonomy, and the articulation of a form of Marxist impegno suitable for a neo-capitalist society and stemming from the class-based idea of the organic intellectual. Using published and unpublished correspondence, we argue that Officina had a pivotal role in producing a theoretical framework for the conceptualisation of a post-neorealist idea of Marxist critical analysis as well as of intellectual, aesthetic and political engagement.

Wyndham Lewis and the Parables of Expressionist Architecture

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-303
Author(s):  
Kate Armond
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Wyndham Lewis ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Post War ◽  
Ideological Context

This article examines Wyndham Lewis’ The Caliph's Design alongside German Expressionist architectural design during the years 1918–1920, suggesting Bruno Taut for the role of Lewis’ sought-after ‘single architect with brains’. By analysing the intellectual and ideological context of an architectural project with similar concerns and prejudices it is possible to see Lewis’ post-war pamphlet as an exceptional phase in his writing, in which he teeters on the brink of approving political engagement for the arts and echoes some of the ideas promoted by Germany's Activist programme. These images of revolutionary utopian architecture can then be traced to Lewis’ construction of the Magnetic City in The Human Age.

scholarly journals O CORPO FEMININO NA TELA: DESAFIOS POLITICO-AFETIVOS E OS SENTIDOS POÉTICOS NA REALIZAÇÃO DE UM CURTA-METRAGEM / The female body on-screen: political-affective challenges and poetic meanings in the making of a short film

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (40) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Júlia Machado
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Film ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Arts ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The One ◽  
Affective Meanings

O artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre a vitalidade político-afetiva do corpo feminino na tela a partir da realização de um curta-metragem, Femme (2016). Minha aspiração artística com o filme foi de transmutar os significados afetivos usualmente associados ao corpo feminino e trabalhar com sua visualidade extrema no limiar estético entre o belo e o abjeto. Ao lidar com a exibição de certos conteúdos do corpo visceral, a artista pode enfrentar um desafio duplo: se há o risco de se ser meramente apelativo aos sentidos, há também o risco de se repetir uma certa poética da abjeção que se tornou padrão no artes. Em seu processo, o filme-experimento levou-me a combinar elementos singulares a partir do retrato de uma personagem e a gerar, de modo inesperado e contundente, indícios acerca das forças poéticas do corpo e da imagem no contexto contemporâneo.Palavras-chave: Imagem; Corpo; Poética; Afetos; Cinema.AbstractThe article provides a reflection on the political-affective vitality of the body on-screen based on the making of a short film, Femme (2016). My artistic aspiration with the film was to question the usual affective meanings of the female body and work with extreme visuality at the thresholds of the beautiful and the abject. In dealing with the display of visceral body contents, an artist might face a double challenge: on the one hand, there is a risk of being too appealing to the senses; on the other, one risks repeating a poetics of abjection that has become standard in the arts. This film-experiment led me to gather unique elements in the making of it as a portrait of a character and generate unexpected evidence on the poetic force of the body and image in the contemporary context.Keywords: Image; Body; Poetics; Affect; Film.

scholarly journals Harnessing Visibility and Invisibility through Arts Practices: Ethnographic Case Studies with Migrant Performers in Belgium

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Shannon Damery ◽  
Elsa Mescoli
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Sans Papiers

This paper endeavors to understand the role of arts in migration-related issues by offering insights into the different ways in which artistic practices can be used by migrants and investigating migrants’ differing objectives in participating in the arts. Through the exploration of the initiatives of undocumented and refugee migrants involved in artistic groups in Belgium, this paper compares the motivations of the performers and concludes that art can operate as an empowering tool for migrants as it constitutes a space for agency, notwithstanding the specific scope of which it is contextually charged. It allows migrants to render themselves visible or invisible, depending on their contrasting motivations. The creative productions of the first group, composed by members of “La Voix des sans papiers de Liège”, a collective of undocumented migrants, corresponds to an explicit effort of political engagement in the local context. The other examples are of undocumented and refugee artists joining musical groups with no specific aim of promoting the cause of undocumented and refugee persons. The choice to be involved in such groups highlights their desire to be, in some ways, invisible and anonymous while participating in this collective of artists. Through these examples, we see that art offers opportunities for migrants to actively participate in the socio-cultural and political environment in which they reside and to claim various forms of official and unofficial belonging whether it occurs through visibility or invisibility.

Electron Microscopy in Molecular Biology

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Cecil E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Noise Level ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Shadow Casting ◽  
Electron Image ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Very High

The visualization of organic macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and virus components has reached its high degree of effectiveness owing to refinements and reliability of instruments and to the invention of methods for enhancing the structure of these materials within the electron image. The latter techniques have been most important because what can be seen depends upon the molecular and atomic character of the object as modified which is rarely evident in the pristine material. Structure may thus be displayed by the arts of positive and negative staining, shadow casting, replication and other techniques. Enhancement of contrast, which delineates bounds of isolated macromolecules has been effected progressively over the years as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 by these methods. We now look to the future wondering what other visions are waiting to be seen. The instrument designers will need to exact from the arts of fabrication the performance that theory has prescribed as well as methods for phase and interference contrast with explorations of the potentialities of very high and very low voltages. Chemistry must play an increasingly important part in future progress by providing specific stain molecules of high visibility, substrates of vanishing “noise” level and means for preservation of molecular structures that usually exist in a solvated condition.

Men’s Hunger, Food Consumption, and Preferences for Female Body Types

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 495-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Guéguen
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Slender Body ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Experimental Conditions

Nelson and Morrison (2005 , study 3) reported that men who feel hungry preferred heavier women. The present study replicates these results by using real photographs of women and examines the mediation effect of hunger scores. Men were solicited while entering or leaving a restaurant and asked to report their hunger on a 10-point scale. Afterwards, they were presented with three photographs of a woman in a bikini: One with a slim body type, one with a slender body type, and one with a slightly chubby body. The participants were asked to indicate their preference. Results showed that the participants entering the restaurant preferred the chubby body type more while satiated men preferred the thinner or slender body types. It was also found that the relation between experimental conditions and the choices of the body type was mediated by men’s hunger scores.

The Ancestral Angle on Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Silvia
Keyword(s):  
The Arts
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