scholarly journals Altering a Fixed Identity: Thinking through Improvisation

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Mobile State ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Identity Thinking ◽  
Insight Into

"Replacing artist with player as if adopting an alias is a way of altering a fixed identity. And a changed identity is a principle of mobility, of going from one place to another…" (Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life 125-6) This paper explores an experiment in improvisation in which the practices of music, the visual arts, philosophy, and anthropology come together. Calendar Variations (2010-11) draws different kinds of artists into creative experiences through the use of verbal scores. The score invites participation in a process in which the outcome is indeterminate. The experiment raises a question within the group of artists and participants about the nature of artistic practice itself and whether any single aesthetic approach is more appropriate than another. The experiment frames the following questions: Why do we have/institute improvisation in life? Can art particularly inform those situations in life in which the unscripted and contingent challenge us to rethink in situations in which we may be encountering failure either in what is around us or failure in ourselves to cope? Drawing in particular on Allan Kaprow’s articulation of Experimental Art (Essays), informed by Ingold and Hallam’s construct of improvisation as a metaphor for existence (Creativity and Cultural Improvisation), I propose that the radical questioning of certainty in experimental art practices offers a different insight into improvisation, one that deals with experiences of failure. The paper concludes that sustaining uncertainty about what the arts might be has given rise to two possible understandings of visual art, one based on contemplation, and the other on time and duration. Our creative imagination is challenged by the collisions and complementarities of these different understandings to sustain a perpetually mobile state of creativity, akin to "adopting an alias as a way of altering a fixed identity" (Kaprow, Essays).

Screening Statues

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Jacobs ◽  
Susan Felleman ◽  
Vito Adriaensens ◽  
Lisa Colpaert
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Film History ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
Broad Scope ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Extensive Reference

Sculpture is an artistic practice that involves material, three-dimensional, and generally static objects, whereas cinema produces immaterial, two-dimensional, kinetic images. These differences are the basis for a range of magical, mystical and phenomenological interactions between the two media. Sculptures are literally brought to life on the silver screen, while living people are turned into, or trapped inside, statuary. Sculpture motivates cinematic movement and film makes manifest the durational properties of sculptural space. This book will examine key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through seven chapters and an extensive reference gallery, dealing with the transformation skills of "cinemagician" Georges Méliès, the experimental art documentaries of Carl Theodor Dreyer and Henri Alekan, the statuary metaphors of modernist cinema, the mythological living statues of the peplum genre, and contemporary art practices in which film—as material and apparatus—is used as sculptural medium. The book’s broad scope and interdisciplinary approach is sure to interest scholars, amateurs and students alike.

The Arts

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-195
Author(s):  
Murray Pittock
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Public Display ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Outdoor Environments ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor Environments ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

The growing circulation of visual art and its widening appearance in domestic collections and public display is an important moniker of the advance of consumerism, cosmopolitanism and innovation. What once had been (and for much of the eighteenth century still remained) an international aristocratic pastime suffused itself steadily into the houses and purchases of the professional well-to-do, bringing with it variety of origin, variety of subject, and whole new genres which could inflect the manner in which indoor and outdoor environments were represented and understood as they came under the control of society’s elites. Such new images could, in their turn, embed the centrality of questions of landscape, geographical conditions and human societies in the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers who moved in intellectual spheres much removed from the visual arts.

scholarly journals PSIKOLOGIS DALAM SENI: KATARSIS SEBAGAI REPRESENTASI DALAM KARYA SENI RUPA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Ernawati Ernawati
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The Arts

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengungkap peran aspek psikologis katarsis dalam karya seni rupa. Prinsip seputar psikis dapat dipraktikan dalam karya seni, salahsatunya gerakan seni rupa kontemporer. Kajian karya berdasarkan aspek psikologis, salah satunya katarsis termasuk hal yang krusial untuk dilakukan.  Metode pada penelitian ini menerapkan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan multidisiplin (psikologi seni dan semiotika). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Perspektif lebih obyektif karena seniman sebagai kreator berbanding lurus dengan karya yang disajikan. Elemen visual yang dipilih dan disajikan seniman tersusun berdasarkan kemampuan kreatif menyusun citra visual yang berangkat dari aspek pengalaman yaitu berupa rasa khawatir/kegelisahan atau ketakutan yang mendasarinya dalam berkarya. Karya seni yang terwujud representasi dari dunia psikis seniman sebagai kreator. Pendekatan psikologis dalam berkarya dengan dipadukan kemampuan akademik dari aspek keilmuan seni rupa setidaknya mampu memperkaya keilmuan dalam keberagaman seni rupa. Dalam konstelasi seni rupa Indonesia kontemporer, kajian dari perspektif psikologis, khususnya katarsis pada karya seni berelasi dengan psikobiografi atau pengalaman pribadi seniman. This research aims to explore the role of catharsis psychological aspects in visual artwork. The principle surrounding the psychic can be practiced in the artwork. One of them is contemporary art movements. A study of works based on psychological aspects, one of which is cathartic includes the crucial thing to do.  The method in this study implements a qualitative method with a multidisciplinary approach (the psychology of Art and semiotics). The results show that perspective is more objective because the artist as a creator is directly proportional to the work showed.The selected and presented visual elements by the artist are arranged based on a creative ability to compose a visual image that influences the experience aspect of worry/anxiety or fear underlying it in the works. The artwork embodied is a representation of the part of a psychic artist as creator. The psychological approach of working combined with the academic ability of the science aspect of the arts is at least, capable of enriching science in the diversity of visual arts. In the constellation of contemporary Indonesian visual art, a study from a psychological perspective, especially catharsis on artwork relates to a psychobiography or an artist's personal experience.

scholarly journals DISSENTING BODY AND ITS CREATIVE RECONTEXTUALISATION IN LITHUANIAN VISUAL ARTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-375
Author(s):  
Basia Nikiforova ◽  
Kęstutis Šapoka
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Cultural Biography ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Art As Research

The body is an important starting point concept throughout deconstruction, reconstruction and recontextualization of the body’s concept. This change of focus in research that stems from the results to the process of contextualization means that the researcher should engage with texts or images, as they are reflected in the process of cultural development and exchange, through which decontextualization is exhibited. This article deals with the concept of new materialism and endeavors to explain, how discourses come to matter. It examines the issue of how new materialism tackles visual art in innovative ways – through the intersections of artistic practice, art-as-research, and philosophical analysis. Such definitions as Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s “a bodily being”, Julia Kristeva’s “the abjection of the self”, Arjun Appadurai’s “the aesthetics of decontextualization” and “singularized object”, Igor Kopytoff’s “the cultural biography of things”, and Nicholas Thomas’ “entangled objects”, constitute the methodological frameworks of our research. We will analyze such approaches as Hans Belting’s concept of body as a “living medium”, Giorgio Agamben’s view on body as an object of commodification and Jacques Derrida’s “trust in painting”. An attempt to understand body reconceptualization and deconstruction through the categories of new materialism is the most important aim of this article. Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action (that implies a clear-cut subject-object distinction) is crucial to our research, which underlines that bodies have no inherent boundaries and properties and that the analyzed representations are “material-discursive phenomena”. The artworks under consideration will be confronted with a diagnosis that, according to Barad, all bodies come to matter thanks the intra-activity and its performativity. The case studies of Svajonė Stanikienė and Paulius Stanikas, Evaldas Jansas and Eglė Rakauskaitė works show how the image of the body is developed through the processes of their deconstruction and decontextualization.

CAMP- ITS EXPANSION IN VERBAL ARTS, FINE\VISUAL ARTS, PERFORMANCE ARTS AND ITS POSSIBLE LINKAGE WITH SCHOOL TRANING PROGRAMS IN VIETNAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (11) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Giang Ho Quynh
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Learning Attitudes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Performance Arts ◽  
Insight Into

The idea about camp is still an unfamiliarity in the country of Vietnam while it is likely a large part of the daily and academic life in the western society. Camp can be found in many arts forms like literature, architecture, paintings, sculptures, music and fashion from the history up to the present days. However, it seems that the presence of camp was not widely recognized until the release of Sontag’s essay in 1964. Therefore, it has led to the rationale to make an insight into it on the scales of the above fields. From the analysis it can be summarized that camp exists in arts with three specific ways of influence. Firstly, it evokes extreme emotions among audiences while examining the arts works. Besides, camp is both evident and visible in gaudiness of the products in those target fields. Moreover, under the influence of camp all what is traditional is subverted to set a new norm welcome by the contemporaneity. Apart from this, a link between camp and liberal education is speculated urging a mobilization of camp in Vietnam schools for this country is on its way to reach liberal education. For it to be done, it requires the innitiatives from teaching staffs in terms of methodology and from learners in terms of learning attitudes. It can be concluded that the spirit of camp should be encouraged in Vietnam education even before liberal education is activated.

Personality and interest in the visual arts

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Bachleda ◽  
Asmae Bennani
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between personality and interest in the visual arts in a sample of Moroccan workers. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered from 210 respondents to an online survey. Findings Results indicate that interest in the visual arts is associated with openness and sensation seeking, even after controlling for income and education. Practical implications This study suggests that to increase consumption of visual arts products or experiences, arts marketers should focus on the personality traits of openness and sensation seeking rather than the demographic variables of income and education. Originality/value Results extend conclusions about openness and interest in the visual arts to a non-student sample and extend the importance of sensation seeking to visual art interests as opposed to visual art preferences and art judgement. This study also represents the first empirical examination of interest in the arts in Morocco.

scholarly journals Extracurricular Activity on Music and Visual Art Associates with Children’ Academic Achievement by Transferring Each Subject Score

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiaki Ishiguro ◽  
Toru Ishihara ◽  
Noriteru Morita
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Extracurricular Activity ◽  
English Music ◽  
The Arts

Abstract The present longitudinal study examined whether extracurricular activities in the arts have a positive association with general academic performance, which is mediated by improved art scores. Data was collected from 700 seventh-grade children (379 boys and 321 girls) for over three years. Information regarding their participation in extracurricular activities in music and visual arts, grade points in general academic performance (i.e., Japanese, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, and English), music, and arts were obtained, at the end of the seventh and ninth grades. Structural equation modeling revealed that both participation in extracurriculars in music and visual arts was positively associated with improvements in general academic performance from seventh to ninth grade, and these associations were mediated by improvements in music and visual arts scores. This finding suggests that arts education can contribute to improving general academic performance.

scholarly journals The arts and their functions

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-44
Author(s):  
Steven Brown
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Interpersonal Coordination ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Symbolic Function ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Tonal Pitch ◽  
Insight Into

In asking the question ‘What is art?’, four major conceptions of a work of art can be considered: an object; an indicator of beauty; an indicator of craftsmanship or creativity; and a process of performance. This chapter contends that the two principal functions of the arts are re-creation and interpersonal coordination. Re-creation reflects the inherently narrative and symbolic function of the arts, as conveyed through storytelling, acting, narrative dance, and figurative forms of visual art. Interpersonal coordination—as seen in artforms such as dance and music—occurs in the three domains of time, physical space (dance), and tonal pitch space (music). A unified view of the arts reveals not only the cognitive similarities among artforms, but the widespread ability of artforms to combine with one another to form syntheses, as seen in songs with words and dances choreographed to music. A comparative analysis of the arts provides greater insight into each artform than is possible by looking at artforms in isolation.

Nature's Wild

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andil Gosine
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Award Recipient ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Book Award ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Gender Based

In Nature's Wild, Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially influenced human/animal divide. Gosine refutes this presupposed binary and embraces animality through a series of case studies: a homoerotic game called puhngah, the institution of gender-based dress codes in Guyana, and efforts toward the decriminalization of sodomy in Trinidad and Tobago—including the work of famed activist Colin Robinson, paintings of human animality by Guadeloupean artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Gosine's own artistic practice. In so doing, he troubles the ways in which individual and collective anxieties about “wild natures” have shaped the existence of Caribbean people while calling for a reassessment of what political liberation might look like. >Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

scholarly journals Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Bentz ◽  
Letícia do Carmo ◽  
Nicole Schafenacker ◽  
Jörn Schirok ◽  
Sara Dal Corso
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis paper argues for an integrative approach to sustainability transformations, one that reconnects body and mind, that fuses art and science and that integrates diverse forms of knowledge in an open, collaborative and creative way. It responds to scholarship emphasizing the importance of connecting disparate ways of knowing, including scientific, artistic, embodied and local knowledges to better understand environmental change and to foster community resilience and engagement. This paper draws on the experience of an arts-based project in Lisbon, Portugal, and explores embodied and performative practices and their potential for climate change transformations. It puts forward and enlivens an example, where such forms of engaging communities can provide new insight into how equitable, just and sustainable transformations can come about. The process involved a series of interactive workshops with diverse arts-based methods and embodied practices to create performative material. From this process, a space emerged for the creation of meaning about climate change. Three key elements stood out in this process as being potentially important for the emergence of meaning-making and for understanding the impact of the project: the use of metaphors, embedding the project locally, and the use of creative, embodied practices. This furthers research, suggesting that the arts can play a critical role in engaging people with new perspectives on climate change and sustainability issues by offering opportunities for critical reflection and providing spaces for creative imagination and experimentation. Such processes may be important for contributing to the changes needed to realize transformations to sustainability.

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