scholarly journals “Hysterical” Bodies in Contemporary Art of Estonia

2021 ◽  
pp. 322-343
Author(s):  
D.O. Martynova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
Transgressive Behavior ◽  
Split Personality

After 1991, the proclaimed Second Republic of Estonia restores individual freedoms, which leads to the problems of individualism, personal borders, transgressive behavior, identity, equality and corporeality in Estonian art after the 1990s. In this article, the author will examine the works of key Estonian contemporary artists who address the problems of identity crisis and “split personality”, which are so characteristic of modern Estonia, where issues of cultural memory, national identity and disciplinary authority are acutely relevant. Marge Monko and Liina Siib analyze the construct of “femininity” and various female cliché images through the sociocultural phenomenon of hysteria. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that in the context of the identity crisis that reigns in modern Estonian society due to historical and geographical circumstances, artistic representations of a split, “hysterical” personality, embodying established social and cultural patterns that affect individuals, become especially relevant. Through both self-analysis and analysis of the collective unconscious, the artists seek to reveal the reasons for the oppression of “deviant” behavior, as well as the influence of “foreign” culture on Estonia.

scholarly journals Spaces of identity in the context of media images and artistic representations of refugees and migration in Austria

2019 ◽  
pp. 136754941988604
Author(s):  
Ricarda Drüeke ◽  
Elisabeth Klaus ◽  
Anita Moser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Media Images ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Migration

The article focuses on media images and artistic discourses on refugees and migration. In both discourses, by the arts and media, stereotypical identities are constructed and reproduced, but are also at times modified or rejected. Theoretically, the article relates to the concept of media-constructed spaces of identity developed with reference to cultural studies. Analytically, three types of such places have been distinguished: geopolitical spaces, spaces of identification and spaces of in-between. We argue that the concept can be fruitfully extended to artistic representations. Following this, the article presents the results of an exemplary analysis of Austrian press photographs accompanying reports on flight and refugees in 2015. While geopolitical spaces and spaces of identification are clearly marked in the media images, spaces of in-between are rare. However, these abound in artistic productions on the subject. Finally, the article discusses media and contemporary art as distinct spaces of identity construction and formation.

Art, Myth and Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
Alessandra Campoli
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between collective and cultural memory, myth, and contemporary art practice. Artists in the past have relied on the power of myth to visually speak to their audience, re-presenting myths in an illusionistic way. Today art is not conventionally telling stories anymore and is disentangled from the need for mimesis. How has the relation between art and myth changed outside the framework of representational art? Is the connection between myth and collective and cultural memory used in contemporary art practice? How do art and myth intersect today?

scholarly journals The Pedagogy of the Evangelization, Latinity, and the Construction of Cultural Identities in the Emblematic Politics of Guamán Poma de Ayala

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Carlos Pérez-González ◽  
Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Colonial Education ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Good Government ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Colonial Order

Transculturation processes and the formation of identity are analyzed in this investigation into the emblematic politics of the Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (First new chronicle and good government) of Guamán Poma de Ayala (ca. 1616). Understood as pluricultural acts of discourse between Andean cosmological visions and the new systems of European cultural codification, this study follows the emblematic chronicler from Poma on the subject of colonial education and the Ladino Indian, through structured relations fixed between space, icon, and symbol. The careful iconographic arrangement of the drawings of Guamán are the result of conscient knowledge of the usefulness of the image and its didactic, persuasive, propagandistic, and mnemotechnic potential. Learning the reading and writing of the Castilian language will be presented here as one of the most effective social instruments in the colonial order and in the defense of native Indians before Viceroyal authorities. Mastery of writing sets the foundation for shaping a multiple and transcultural non-exclusive identity, which shows evidence of dialogic and effective communication of a cultural memory, the result of the negotiation of two identities, one from the awareness of the pre-Hispanic past and another orderly realignment in accordance with European cultural patterns.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL UNIVERSALITY OF MEMORY AND OBLIVION CATEGORIES IN LITERATURE

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Valerii Bren
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Individual Memory

This research is devoted to the concepts of memory and oblivion in terms of the universality of these categories for literature, and their interdisciplinary in history, culturology, and sociology. The theoretical basis for analysis in the artistic text is shown on the example of Ukrainian and foreign researchers, specified and illustrated manifestations in the Ukrainian novels by Y. Andrukhovych, O. Zabuzhko, S. Zhadan, O. Irvanetz, etc. Literature is the centre of individual and national cultural memory and a means of creating of it. However, it becomes a platform for social discourse of memory, as well as the preservation of individual memory as a genetic key in the text. Consequently, modern literary studies require a well-balanced approach and analysis of the ways, means, methods, and forms of its functioning in contemporary art. Such approach will enable an understanding of the past experience, as well as assessments of contemporary imprints of events in the future, on a qualitatively new level.

scholarly journals Dobre słowo jako tekst magiczny. Życzenie — pozdrowienie — błogosławieństwo

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Masłowska
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Memory ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
Principal Criterion

Good words as a magical text: Wishes, greetings, blessingsThe article is devoted to cultural patterns of creating favourable reality by means of magic words and gestures. The analysis of cognitive settings of wishing scenarios is focused on the semantic memory of symbols referring to a myth and reactivated in the ritual of blessing or expressing good wishes, lexical items etymological meaning and connotation and axiology — the principal criterion of selection which explains the use of traditional patterns and modifications of the code. The author explores the semantic core of wishing rituals preserved in stereotypical patterns of cultural memory and examines their linguistic manifestations.

scholarly journals JĘZYKI I PAMIĘĆ KULTUROWA. O GLOTTODYDAKTYCZNYM POTENCJALE MIEJSC PAMIĘCI

Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Camilla Badstübner-Kizik
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
German Speaking

Looking for motivating concepts to stimulate integrated language andculture-related teaching and learning processes in the foreign languageclassroom, the vibrant concept of Cultural Memory is certainly an issueto pay attention to. It offers a variety of occasions for language and cultureawareness training tightly connected with language learning, reachingfar beyond traditional regional studies. Realms of memory, acting asproducts and markers of a complex cultural memory, can reveal to whatextent (by whom, by which means, to what aims) cultural patterns andmeanings are constructed, how they change or under which circumstancesthey survive long periods of time. Up-to-date foreign languagedidactics can make use of this in aiming at symbolic competence (ClaireKramsch). Understanding culture as an ongoing process of (de-and re-)construction, learners might be enabled to notice and (partly) participatein authentic discourses, going on in different languages. Realms ofmemory, manifesting themselves per definition e.g. as texts, pictures,sounds, buildings, historic or mythic persons, objects, terms or whole culturalconcepts, own a considerable linguistic and cultural potential. Thisclearly points at content and process oriented learning processes involvingthe foreign language as a natural means of exploration.The article discusses criteria which might help to choose realms ofmemory suitable for the foreign language classroom and takes a look attwo genuinely “German-speaking” examples in the field of sport (Córdoba1978) and everyday objects (Schweizermesser). They can illustratethe wide range of didactic possibilities and stimulating methods whicharise from authentic and vivid parts of a widely understood culture.

scholarly journals INTERTEXTUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART OF KAZAKHSTAN IN THE ASPECT OF CULTURAL MEMORY

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-190
Author(s):  
D. S. Sharipova ◽  
S. Zh. Kobzhanova ◽  
A. B. Kenzhakulova
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
Spiritual Foundations ◽  
Single Field ◽  
Classical Culture

For the masters of modern art of Kazakhstan, along with the importance of samples of classical culture and discoveries of modernist art, Kazakh folk art is becoming a single field of tradition today. Intertextuality, constant dialogue with different layers of world and national painting and sculpture determine the search for new expressiveness in art. This article describes the role of intertextuality in the development of new forms of artistic statements, namely, as in the works of modern Kazakh sculptors (S.Bekbotayev, D.Sarbasov, Z.Kozhamkulov), jewelers (A.Mukazhanov), tapestry masters (A.Bapanov), the importance of the values of native culture as a space of cultural memory is preserved. Experiments with the material are perceived as a ritual, a creative act, a search for their own author's style, modern means of expression of the artist. It is shown that the danger of losing one's own national identity associated with the process of globalization explains the interest of the masters in the author's myth-making, designed to awaken the spiritual foundations of the nation in the minds of contemporaries. Through mechanical details, sculptors create new myths in order to streamline the ethical and psychological state of a modern person, while in the works of masters of decorative and applied art, bricolage is practiced as a combination of different materials and textures, meanings and images closest to the construction of a myth.

scholarly journals The Countryside in Indonesian Contemporary Art and Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 175 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-473
Author(s):  
Edwin Jurriëns
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Urban Rural

Abstract This article analyses explorations of social and environmental problems and solutions in artistic representations of the Indonesian countryside and rural society, culture, and wisdom. It focuses on urban–rural creative collaborations that combine traditional culture and knowledge with modern technology and media, such as drones and the Internet, to empower local communities, promote artistic innovation, and enhance environmental sustainability. It seeks to demonstrate that contemporary art and media strengthen the urban–rural network and the accessibility and exchange of creative ideas and information. At the same time, the author argues that some of the causes of cultural conflict and anthropogenic disaster are embedded in forms of audio-visual representation itself. The display of urban–rural encounters in art festivals and social media can even instigate new forms of surveillance, and power and knowledge hierarchies, or reinforce regimes of consumer culture, partially responsible for the very problems the audio-visual representations and collaborations seek to address.

scholarly journals Practical Applications of the Understanding of Foreign Cultures in Japanese-language Teachings

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 19-22
Author(s):  
Junjie Xing
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Thinking Styles ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Foreign Culture

Due to differences in cultural patterns, backgrounds, and thinking styles, it is difficult to learn foreign languages. By integrating the understanding of foreign culture into Japanese-language teachings, students may be able to use Japanese in a more standardized manner based on the understanding of Japanese culture; hence, improving their Japanese proficiency. This article explored the practical strategies of understanding foreign cultures in Japanese-language teachings in hope of helping students improve their Japanese proficiency.

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