Arendt in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laikwan Pang
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Participatory Politics ◽  
Participatory Arts

This article explores the meanings of the arts produced in the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, using a reinterpretation of Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy. It examines how these arts struggle with the tensions between politics and aesthetics. These arts are not only politically provocative in themselves but they also provide us new perspectives in understanding participatory politics and participatory arts, in general. The discussion is based on two sets of tensions: the tensions between arts and artifacts and those between actors and spectators.

The use of arts interventions for mental health and wellbeing in health settings

2018 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Jensen ◽  
LO Bonde
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Cochrane Library ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Health Hospital

Aims: This literature review aims to illustrate the variety and multitude of studies showing that participation in arts activities and clinical arts interventions can be beneficial for citizens with mental and physical health problems. The article is focused on mental health benefits because this is an emerging field in the Nordic countries where evidence is demanded from national health agencies that face an increasing number of citizens with poor mental health and a need for non-medical interventions and programmes. Methods: A total of 20 articles of interest were drawn from a wider literature review. Studies were identified through the search engines: Cochrane Library, Primo, Ebscohost, ProQuest, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO, PubMed and Design and Applied Arts Index. Search words included the following: arts engagement + health/hospital/recovery, arts + hospital/evidence/wellbeing, evidence-based health practice, participatory arts for wellbeing, health + poetry/literature/dance/singing/music/community arts, arts health cost-effectiveness and creative art or creative activity + health/hospital/recovery/mental health. The inclusion criteria for studies were (1) peer review and (2) empirical data. Results: The studies document that participation in activities in a spectrum from clinical arts interventions to non-clinical participatory arts programmes is beneficial and an effective way of using engagement in the arts to promote holistic approaches with health benefits. Engagement in specially designed arts activities or arts therapies can reduce physical symptoms and improve mental health issues. Conclusion: Based on the growing evidence of the arts as a tool for enhancing mental health wellbeing, and in line with the global challenges in health, we suggest that participatory arts activities and clinical arts interventions are made more widely available in health and social settings. It is well-documented that such activities can be used as non-medical interventions to promote public health and wellbeing.

Can Human Flourishing Be Liberal?

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-247
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Dominant Form ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Contemporary Liberalism ◽  
The Relationship

The renewed interest in virtue ethics raises again a persistent question, namely, the relationship between the virtue ethics theory and liberalism as a political philosophy. Virtue ethicists focus on the good—i.e., human flourishing—and debate what constitutes that good. This focus creates a problem for liberals who are rights-oriented, which is the dominant form of contemporary liberalism.The recent and timely book by Menachem Mautner, Human Flourishing, Liberal Theory, and the Arts, reminds us, however, that liberalism comes in many stripes. There is no one liberalism. Rather, there are many liberalisms. I discuss three aspects of Mautner’s remarkable and important book: first, his conception of human flourishing and its relationship to liberalism; second, his argument that a liberal political order committed to human flourishing ought to promote the arts; and third, his argument that the liberalism of flourishing is better able than neutralist liberalism to compete with religion in providing what Mautner calls “Big Meaning.”

Philosophy and the Moving Image

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noël Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Computer Generated Imagery

Philosophy and the Moving image is a collection of articles by Noël Carroll involving many of the ways in which the moving image – including cinema, television, video, and computer generated imagery – can intersect with philosophy. These intersections can include discussions of movies that do philosophy outright, and movies that illustrate philosophical themes as well as discussions various philosophical issues that moving-image practices can provoke. The book shows that movies make contact with many of the established branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of the arts, specifically music and dance. The book also includes essays on the history of the philosophy of motion pictures, discussing the work of Balász, Eisenstein, Cavell, and Danto.

Interview: ‘Visualising Our Voices’ – Hong Kong Scholar and Film Director Vivian Wenli Lin in Conversation with Boel Ulfsdotter

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Social Politics ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Participatory Arts

This interview revolves around Vivian Wenli Lin’s use of participatory arts-based methods in order to encourage and teach women in marginalised communities to empower themselves by making documentary film. Lin also talks about the development of a ‘cine-feminist’ framework which in many ways extend feminist film studies by introducing ‘rare materials of women’s self-representations’. These films thus give way to documentary narratives of overlooked groups of women, and results in a documentary practice that is framed by social politics and activism.

scholarly journals Moving is in Every Direction

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-176
Author(s):  
Sabine Flach
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Art History ◽  
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Arts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Time Movement ◽  
Poetry And Music

Traditionally, art history divided the arts into four genres: painting and sculpture, poetry and music. Hence the art-historical canon was dominated by a strict division into the arts of space and those of time. Movement (both of an internal and externalized kind) did not find a place within this classificatory corset. In 1766, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing framed the classical art-theoretical approach through his famous text ‚Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry‘, in which he splits the arts into those unfolding in time and those unfolding in space. Lessing’s ‚Laocoon‘ is the founding text defining poetry and music as time-based, sculpture and painting as space-orientated. By 1900, this strict system of classification and hierarchization began to dissolve, giving way to cross-border experiments in the arts of the twentieth century up to the present day. This overturning of classical genre divisions between the static and the dynamic arts, between sculpture, installation, and performance enables us to examine artworks as variations of movement in terms of ‚constellations between scene and scenario‘. Furthermore, the development of movement as an artform implies the activation of the audience in participatory arts practice.

Sign Levels Synopsis

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-151
Author(s):  
D.S. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Associative Learning ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Language Discourse ◽  
The Arts ◽  
General Perspective

This Tractatus-style sequence of propositions describes logical features of natural language discourse, pre-linguistic levels of signs interpreted in associative learning and animal communication, and the specialized discourses of the institutions of science, religion, law, politics, and the arts. Its comprehensive scope is designed to help overcome the compartmentalization of philosophy into its branches of epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. The general perspective is that of pragmatic naturalism as developed by the classical pragmatists Peirce, James, Schiller, and Dewey. Central to pragmatism is its emphasis on the use of practical inferences combining descriptive and expressive premisses with prescriptive “ought” conclusions guiding conduct. I argue that by making such inferences its focus, pragmatism enables contemporary philosophy to offset the effects of social specialization.

Learning, making and flourishing in non-formal spaces: Participatory arts and social justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 174619792097180
Author(s):  
Peter Wright ◽  
Barry Down ◽  
Christina Davies
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Regional Australia

This article considers Participatory Arts and sociocultural understandings of justice and praxis through the example of Big hART, an Australian multi-award winning provider where both artists and participants – often disenfranchised and marginalised young people – co-create the work (Matarasso, 2018). Enacting social justice principles, Big hART works alongside young people to improve their life outcomes through arts practice strengthening young people’s critical capabilities by inducting them as both makers and responders to their own lives and the world around them. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research across three sites in rural and regional Australia we highlight how multidimensional and multi-modal arts-based projects contribute to young people’s lives through theorising the attributes and dimensions of twenty productive conditions and practices identified as essential for social change. These possibilities are important as when these conditions are purposefully enacted, the power of the arts for sense-making and identity development is revealed in non-formal learning spaces. Theoretically unpacking these conditions and practices and linking them with research outcomes helps build understanding of the generative power of Participatory Arts through the ways Big hART builds bridges between young people and their communities and the developmental trajectories they may take through being ‘at-promise’ rather than ‘at-risk’.

scholarly journals Finding Sustainability: University-community collaborations focused on arts in health

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 48-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike White ◽  
Mary Robson
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Development Context ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
Arts In Health ◽  
University Community

This article describes a number of community-based arts in health projects in schools and disadvantaged communities in Northern England that connect with the interdisciplinary research interests of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University (www.dur.ac.uk/cmh). It examines issues about what makes for sustainability in both practice and research of arts in health when operating from a university base and stresses the importance of relationship-based work in health promotion interventions in communities. It attempts to set arts development work in the policy context of how community health has been addressed over the last decade. It provides both practical and metaphorical illustrations of how community cohesion and emotional literacy can be developed and recognised in schools and communities when supported by ethnographic research that is underpinned by theories of social capital, resilience and participatory arts practice. The significance that the artwork can attain as a social gift, with a special meaning for its creators, is examined from an anthropological perspective. Looking historically and comparatively at some longitudinal projects in community-based arts in health, the article assesses what makes for both success and failure in practice, and looks particularly at the significance of the arts in helping to deliver strategies for improving child health and education. In a strategic development context, explanation is given of several strands of university-community collaboration in arts in health, with interlinked project examples drawn from Tyneside and West Yorkshire. Finally, the article looks at the prospects for sustaining arts in health within the coming transfer of the public health function to local government. Keywords Sustainability, arts in community health, resilience, child mental health, social capital

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