Lost and found in translation: Intermittent Aphasia

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Fang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The West ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Lost And Found ◽  
Xu Bing ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
Artistic Research ◽  
Contemporary Artists

This article explores gaps in communication and mistranslations between languages and cultural identities. My article centres on my artistic research practice, alongside Chinese contemporary artists, Xu Bing and Ai Weiwei, who brought their own culture to bear on the experience of living and making work in the West. When facing the clash of cultural and linguistic environments, the work featured seeks to find a balance between inclusive and exclusive language systems. What seems to be ‘lost’ in translation can be used creatively in art practice, through hybridized forms and often through humour, to ‘find’ new meanings for myself, and hopefully for the audiences of my work.

scholarly journals Michael O’Brien’s Theological Aesthetics

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Rebekah Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Devotional Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Extensive Collection ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Artists

This essay introduces and examines aspects of the theological aesthetics of contemporary Canadian artist, Michael D. O’Brien (1948–). It also considers how his philosophy of the arts informs understandings of the Catholic imagination. In so doing, it focuses on his view that prayer is the primary source of imaginative expression, allowing the artist to operate from a position of humble receptivity to the transcendent. O’Brien studies is a nascent field, owing much of its development in recent years to the pioneering work of Clemens Cavallin. Apart from Cavallin, few scholars have focused on O’Brien’s extensive collection of paintings (principally because the first catalogue of his art was only published in 2019). Instead, they have worked on his prodigious output of novels and essays. In prioritising O’Brien’s paintings, this study will assess the relationship between his theological reflections on the Catholic imagination and art practice. By focusing on the interface between theory and practice in O’Brien’s art, this article shows that conversations about the philosophy of the Catholic imagination benefit from attending to the inner standing points of contemporary artists who see in the arts a place where faith and praxis meet. In certain instances, I will include images of O’Brien’s devotional art to further illustrate his contemplative, Christ-centred approach to aesthetics. Overall, this study offers new directions in O’Brien studies and scholarship on the philosophy of the Catholic imagination.

scholarly journals Art, Age & Health: A Research Journey about Developing Reminiscence Theatre in an Age-Exchange Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikke Gürgens Gjærum
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Performance Ethnography ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Theatre Production ◽  
Art Based Research ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Artistic Research

In this article, the researcher studies how it is possible to develop a reminiscence theatre production in an age-exchange project, created with life stories from pensioners, and how the audience experiences the performance. The article is based on six focus group interviews with nine pensioners, a theatre production and a “reminiscence café” between the audience and the actors, arranged after the performance. The researcher designed the study, “The aged as a resource”, based on guidelines for performance ethnography, art-based research, practice-led research and artistic research, in order to combine science and art, which could be said to represent two different epistemological traditions.

scholarly journals TOWARD THE UNIVERSAL ETHICS AND VALUES IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: WITH REFERENCE TO JAPANESE RELIGIONS COMPARED TO MODERN RATIONALISM

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Maruyama
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Common Values

Today, globalization is still far from creating a picture in our minds about an integrated global society with certain common values and ethics. However, the exchange and flow of people, goods, money, information and images are emerging on a transnational level and, in this global sphere, some values of dominant-particularity with pseudo-universality have prevailed. Most of these values originated in Western societies. This paper presents a tentative outline of alternative common values in the new global sphere, with reference to Japanese religions, especially Buddhist ideas, making comparison with modern rationalism that originated in the West. In the globalization process of human society, those values and norms which have been formed at the nation-state level become relativized and lead to the fluidity and instability of cultural identities. Furthermore, it also becomes clear that such dominant values based on modern rationalism have revealed their limitations. Hence, we need to search for alternative values common to all human beings. In this line of thought, it is useful to consider the possibilities or potentialities of Buddhist ideas as common values.

Trans*formative Thinking Through Sound: Artistic Research in Gender and Sound Beyond the Human

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-346
Author(s):  
Luca Soudant
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Sound Waves ◽  
Frequency Sound ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Artistic Research

Abstract This article reflects on an ongoing artistic research practice that deals with sound, gender, power, spatiality, and human–nonhuman entanglement. Sparked by a sound design for a less crunchy “lady-friendly” crisp, the research inquires the relationship between gender and sound at human–nonhuman encounter through making and thinking. Drawing on queer theory, sound studies, and posthumanism, it aims to transcend essentialist, vision-focused, and anthropocentric conceptualisations of gender and, as an insight gained from working with low-frequency sound waves, it reflects on sound as material-philosophically demonstrating human–nonhuman interconnectedness. The latter, as this article proposes, may encourage us to horizontalise hierarchies between the human and nonhuman. Finally, this text situates sonic thinking as a mode of trans*formative thinking: a process-oriented philosophy that aims to embrace the messy, queer ways of human–nonhuman relationality, which characterises a vibrant space from which this artistic research will further develop.

De koffer / The Suitcase

Forum+ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Morris
Keyword(s):  
Research Practice ◽  
Artistic Research

Abstract De koffer staat in de studio. Leeg. De duizenden brieven die er ooit in gepropt zaten, zijn intussen gesorteerd op datum, gelogd, gelezen, sommige uitgetypt en andere gefotografeerd. Muriel Leysen, de eigenares van de koffer én van zijn inhoud, stierf in de jaren 1970 in Johannesburg. De vader van de kunstenares had de koffer meer dan veertig jaar onder zijn hoede. Na zijn dood bracht de kunstenares de koffer naar België. Onlangs, in januari, kwam er een nieuwe brief. Eentje van Muriel. ‘De koffer’ is een tussenstation in Wendy Morris’ lopende studie rond de rol van brieven binnen een artistieke onderzoekspraktijk. The suitcase stands empty in the studio. The thousand letters once crammed into it have been sorted by date, logged, read, some typed up and others photographed. Muriel Leysen, the owner of the case and its contents, died in Johannesburg in the 1970s. The father of the artist has been guardian of the suitcase for over forty years. Following his death the artist brought the case to Belgium. Now, in January a new letter has arrived. This one is from Muriel. 'The Suitcase' is a waystation in Wendy Morris's ongoing investigation into the role that letters might play in an artistic research practice.

scholarly journals Mother as curator

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Sarah Black
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Ethical Implications

This article and the research practice, ‘Mother as Curator’, speak directly to the mother developing art with her family, and addresses the ethical implications which arise this kind of performance making. The author discusses two pieces of work she has developed with her children, Oliver’s World (2014) and Isabel’s Shoes (2017). These performance works and encounters highlight and encourage performance making from different angles, acknowledging the ways in which art making as part of family life shifts perspectives on, and understandings of, what we mean be art practice and the ways it might be experienced.

scholarly journals drawing perform’s: An Artistic research

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Karna Mustaqim
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
Artistic Research

The determination of academic research on the field of the arts education troubling its own artistic practices. It was assumed by clarifying the objective and method of doing the research, art was believed would be contributing to a greater intellectualisation, otherwise it is just an art practice without justification from science, and therefore no contribution worth to human knowledge. Since it contrastive to the nature of artistic practice embodied in the arts itself, which unfortunately not even realize by the artist his/herself. Whilst it is well said by Joseph Kosuth (1971) that: “the artist, not unlike a scientist for whom there is no distinction between working in the laboratory and writing a thesis, has now “to cultivate the conceptual implications of his art propositions, and argue their explication.” This paper is about explicating the writer as the artist himself who done the livedexperience of drawing performs as the research processed. Artists use drawings an activity or a way of understanding the meaning of who we are and how we lived in the world. However, the objective of this research is an exceptional one, it searches for the dual experiences of the researcher as the artist as the instrument who producing the drawing and as the spectators himself welcoming and appreciating as he/she reveals him/ herself capable of wondering. In a particular way, this research is to show that through the making of drawings, the drawing performs lived-experience, that it can be another paradigm so called art-based or artistic research.

Reporting terrorism in Muslim Asia: the Peshawar massacre

2019 ◽  
Vol 173 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-124
Author(s):  
Saira Ali ◽  
Umi Khattab
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terror Attack ◽  
The West ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Western Civilisation

Terrorism is not a threat to Western civilisation alone. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives and using Pakistan as a case, where the war-on-terror is being fought ceaselessly, analysis was carried out on Pakistan’s mainstream media coverage of, and citizen media reactions to, the December 2014 Peshawar school terror attack where 144 people, mostly children, were killed. Discourse analysis of media texts reflects that Pakistan’s mainstream media was spineless in openly fighting terrorism as it focused on the victims of the attack while camouflaging stories with shahadat-ism (martyrdom). On the other hand, citizen media condemned the Taliban perpetrators and hotly debated the perils of Taliban-ism and Islamo-fascism. Attempts to fight militant Islamism and mitigate terrorism were evident in an emerging citizen sphere where the issue took on new meanings, unlike the West. It is important for journalists to be culturally alert in reporting ‘terrorism’ in the light of the intersections of Islamism.

scholarly journals Expressive AI: A Hybrid Art and Science Practice

Leonardo ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mateas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Science Practice ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Hybrid Art

Expressive AI is a new interdiscipline of AI-based cultural production, combining art practice and AI-research practice. This article explores expressive AI by comparing it with other AI discourses, describing how it borrows notions of interpretation and authorship from both art and AI research practice and providing preliminary desiderata for the practice.

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