Coracle’s Unpainted Landscapes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Hair
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Small Press ◽  
Work Community ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Alternative Spaces ◽  
Alternative Space

Chapter 6 examines the ways in which the English publisher Coracle has utilized the ‘alternative space’ of the book and other printed platforms to critically rethink representations of place and space. Coracle’s approach to the question of landscape is shown to have anticipated recent developments in the field of cultural geography regarding ‘non-representational theory’ and its emphasis on the ‘small stories’ of landscape. Chapter 6 examines how a number of poets and artists associated with Coracle (Erica Van Horn, Simon Cutts, Stephen Duncalf, Colin Sackett, Richard Long) have significantly paralleled many of these non-representational approaches to landscape and revised the grand, heroic values traditionally attributed landscape representations by engaging the modest means of small press publications. It is argued that the space of the allotment is of particular significance for Coracle as an ‘unofficial’ landscape analogous to Coracle’s own emphasis on co-operative work, community, and creative singularity. The chapter concludes by discussing Richard Long’s installation Stone Field in the semi-refurbished space of Renshaw Hall in Liverpool. Despite its immense size, chapter 6 demonstrates how Long’s installation reiterates the qualities associated with the ‘alternative spaces’ of small press publishing and its broader possibilities on and off the page.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN RUANG URBAN ALTERNATIF MELALUI PERFORMANCE ART

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Surya Farid Sathotho
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Abstract Space ◽  
Urban Place ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
New Space ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Alternative Space

 Abstract: Space is created by the action of historical subject. This notion is refer to Urban in space context which is fluid and its fluidity is challenging to any subject to offer new idea of its space. Performance as historical subject has capacity to create certain space in the process while performance per se takes in certain place, mostly in the urban place, and space.  By shifting the performance’s place, the alternative space will be created which might include alternative urban space. Although the idea of shifting of place in performance is nothing but cliché, but the place is can always be new, hence the space created as well. Furthermore, the performativity of the space is also taken into consideration.This essay carries out the process and implication of the new space created by shifting a performance’s place through the close watching of M Brilyan’s Mother’s Dance (2018). Key words: space, urban, shifting, performance, performativity, Mother’s Dance

scholarly journals Explicit and implied significance of contemporary public spaces. Part 2: Alternative spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 083-102
Author(s):  
Dariusz Dziubiński
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
Social Game ◽  
Spaces Of Resistance ◽  
Alternative Spaces ◽  
Alternative Space

This paper is a continuation of deliberations on meaning (sense) of public spaces. It refers to unofficial spaces for informal activities, which could be called informal alternative spaces or maybe even a bit exaggeratedly “spaces-of-resistance”.  Their extremely important features include absence of control and lack of rules, which distinguish them from other spaces. The paramount advantage visitors gain from these places is the ability to give the space a meaning of their own, thus changing the users’s position from that of a mere user into the user  in possession. It also changes his/her relation to the space which ceases to be only a ‘closed object’. It is brought into use, as it is created and linked only for the time of the actor-user's (own) performance. The experimental character of the game leads to a reinterpretation of the meaning (or even necessity to change it)  that the space has. Such an approach breaks with the patterns embedded in a collective imaginarium, which promote safe, comfortable behaviours – an unofficial, alternative space must be created each time from scratch, such space is a process. It is not treated as a product, it becomes space of commitment – it becomes political space, but as such, it is a challenge and thus it is interesting only for few people. By meeting each other and being with others we fulfill our basic psychological need, but  simultaneously we enter into different roles in a social game in which our own “win” often counts above all. Our private satisfaction can also be valued by a sense of community,  collaboration, having something in common, and this obviously can bring benefits to everyone. However, without a deeper thought practices that seek and provide best possible conditions for staying in space can lead to a certain inertia, which can turn into “algorithmization” in satisfying space users, specialized only in passive satisfaction of thoughtless users.

scholarly journals Analyzing Meaning-Making in Network Ties—A Qualitative Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691878710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Basic Operation ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Practical Procedure ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Empirical Perspective ◽  
Small Story ◽  
Small Stories

How to understand meaning-making in social relations has long been a key issue in sociological network thinking and research and has been addressed by an impressive body of research, most with either a theory-oriented or a method-oriented focus. This article argues for the value of strengthening the links between both approaches to meaning-making in networks. From an empirical perspective, this article draws on small story research and combines it with recent advances in network theory led by Harrison C. White. People relate to one another by telling small stories that engage positioned identities in story lines. Meaning-making in social relations builds on and continues this shared storytelling history. I suggest two basic analytical operations to reconstruct meaning-making in social ties from textual data. The first basic operation disentangles small story sequences from a text and investigates their identity positionings (small story level). The second basic operation integrates all small stories about a tie and teases out varieties of identity positionings, their patterning, and their inner logic (tie level). This article presents a practical procedure to analyze meaning-making in network ties that is simultaneously combined with qualitative research principles and consistent with recent developments in sociological network thinking.

scholarly journals The FLAT Gallery : a documentation and critical examination of an informal art organisation in Durban

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Siemon D. Allen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Alternative Spaces ◽  
Contemporary Artist ◽  
Alternative Space

In this research paper I will examine the Durban based 'alternative/informal' art space, the FLAT Gallery, which operated from October 1993 to January 1995. I will begin by first defining what is meant by an 'alternative space' and by looking at the historical development of such spaces both in South Africa and the United States of America. This will include an investigation into the ideological motivations and socio-political influences behind such spaces, as well as an exploration of what is meant by 'alternative practice', which I will show as being inseparable from the mission of the 'alternative space.' This will by no means be a comprehensive survey of alternative spaces in South Africa or the United States, but rather a tracing of the phenomenon with relevant examples. Here, I will explore the similarities that existed between the FLAT and other contemporary artist initiatives in South Africa and the United States, drawing comparisons between the FLAT and other similar venues. I will examine the particular circumstances that catalyzed the FLAT Gallery in the specific cultural and historical context of Durban, South Africa in 1993 and 1994. I will then construct a chronological documentation of the FLAT Gallery' s programme including interviews and extensive visual and audio archives. With this archival information and with detailed descriptions of each event, exhibition or performance, I will create a comprehensive record of the FLAT Gallery's activities. This will include an investigation into the historical influences, with specific examples of linkages to other artist-motivated projects in the past. In this way, I will both identify important precedents for many of the FLAT projects. I will conclude with those 'FLAT activities' that continued beyond the operation of the 'alternative/informal' space. It is my intention to create a document that not only offers a comprehensive study of the FLAT Gallery's programme, but also offers students, recent graduates and emerging artists useful practical information. This document is an affirmation of the possibilities for working and exhibiting once one has left the 'comforts' of faculty guidance, peer support, studio facilities and venues for showing work that the institutional environment provides. My claim is that there rests in the artist the responsibility to actively build a place where his/her development as a creative individual can flourish; that one must not wait for 'permission' or for 'someone' to offer validation of one's work. With this document I intend to demonstrate that it is indeed possible here in Durban to do Something!

scholarly journals Interrogating spaces of and for the dead as ‘alternative space’: cemeteries, corpses and sites of Dark Tourism.

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Young ◽  
Duncan Light
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Alternative Space

Abstract This paper considers spaces associated with death and the dead body as social spaces with an ambiguous character. The experience of Western societies has tended to follow a path of an increased sequestration of death and the dead body over the last two centuries. Linked to this, the study of spaces associated with death, dying and bodily disposal and the dead body itself have been marginalised in most academic disciplines over this period. Such studies have therefore been simultaneously ‘alternative’ within an academic paradigm which largely failed to engage with death and involved a focus on types of spaces which have been considered marginal, liminal or ‘alternative’, such as graveyards, mortuaries, heritage tourism sites commemorating death and disaster, and the dead body itself. However, this paper traces more recent developments in society and academia which would begin to question this labelling of such studies and spaces as alternative, or at least blur the boundaries between mainstream and alternative in this context. Through considering the increased presence of death and the dead body in a range of socio-cultural, economic and political contexts we argue that both studies of, and some spaces of, death, dying and disposal are becoming less ‘alternative’ but remain highly ambiguous nonetheless. This argument is addressed through a specific focus on three key interlinked spaces: cemeteries, corpses and sites of dark tourism.

scholarly journals Place and Space in the Song of Songs

2015 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anselm C. Hagedorn
Keyword(s):  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Structure Sociale ◽  
Alternative Spaces ◽  
Greek World ◽  
Limited Usefulness

The article investigates the role of space in the Song of Songs. Taking recent theoretical insights into spatiality (M. Foucault, E. Soja, H. Lefebvre) as a starting point for an exegesis of selected passages from Song of Songs (Cant 4,12–5,1; 6,2 f.) it is argued that by using the imagery of the garden and the vineyard, Song of Songs creates spaces that are in between the enclosed world of city and house and the wide-open countryside. Since the protagonists of the Song of Songs move and operate in all of these three spaces, binary opposites are only of a limited usefulness when explaining the structure of social and spatial relationships in the Song. The creation of alternative spaces beyond the public and private or town and countryside dichotomy enables the man and the woman of Song of Songs to contest and re-negotiate boundaries and cultural identity. In a further interpretative step the imagery of garden and vineyard is supplemented by comparative material from the Greek world.Der Beitrag untersucht die Funktion des Raumes im Hohelied. Ausgangspunkt sind raumtheoretische Überlegungen (M. Foucault, E. Soja, H. Lefebvre), die zur Exegese ausgewählter Passagen des Hoheliedes (Cant 4,12–5,1; 6,2 f.) herangezogen werden. So ist es möglich zu zeigen, dass das Hohelied den Garten und den Weinberg benutzt, um Räume zu schaffen, die zwischen der abgeschlossenen Welt der Stadt und der offenen, der freien Natur liegen. Da die Protagonisten sich in allen drei Räumen bewegen, sind binäre Interpretationsmodelle der Struktur der sozialen und räumlichen Beziehungen nur bedingt hilfreich. Indem sog. Zwischenräume geschaffen werden, können der Mann und die Frau im Hohelied die Grenzen der eigenen kulturellen Identität verschieben. Im Rahmen eines kulturellen Vergleichs werden die Bilder und Konzeptionen mit vergleichbarem Material aus dem griechischsprachigen Raum ergänzt.Cet article est une enquête sur la fonction de l’espace dans le Cantique des Cantiques. En partant des éléments théoriques sur la spatialité (M. Foucault, E. Soja, H. Lefebvre), l’exégèse de certains passages choisis (Ca 4,12–5,1; 6,2 f.) montrera qu’en utilisant l’imagerie du jardin et de la vigne, le Cantique des Cantiques crée des espaces, qui se situent entre le monde clos des villes ou des maisons et la campagne vaste et ouverte. Comme les protagonistes du Cantique des Cantiques se déplacent entre ces trois espaces, les oppositions binaires ne sont pas très utiles quand il faut expliquer la structure sociale et spatiale dans le Cantique. La création d’espaces alternatifs, au-delà de la dichotomie du publique et du privé ou de la ville et de la campagne, permet à la femme et à l’homme du Cantique des Cantiques de contester et de renégocier les frontières et l’identité culturelle. Dans un effort d’interprétation supplémentaire, l’imagerie du jardin et de la vigne est complétée avec du matériel comparatif tiré du monde grec.

Recent developments in social and cultural geography in Spain

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Dolors Garcia-Ramon ◽  
Abel Albet ◽  
Perla Zusman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Recent Developments

scholarly journals THEORETICAL EXPLORATION OF THE CAFE'S PROXEMICS AS A TRANSITIONAL EDUCATIONAL SPACE

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1177
Author(s):  
Sakuntala Verlista ◽  
Djuli Djatiprambudi ◽  
I Nyoman Lodra
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Alternative Learning ◽  
Traditional Definition ◽  
Alternative Spaces ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Alternative Space ◽  
Selection Of

This paper was a theoretical exploration of proxemic discourse and the experience of cafe space as a transitional educational space. It was based on the development of a paradigm in the 21st century that has targeted the cafe sector and provided the potential to be converted into an alternative educational space, especially for the millennial generation, called students. This study theoretically explored based on the phenomena seen at Yoman Cafe in Surabaya, Indonesia, which often became an alternative learning place for students at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. The research was conducted through participatory observations during March 2021, and it was analyzed by carrying out theoretical exploration of proxemics, spatial experiences, and alternative spaces. The results showed that the cafe currently had a dual role which was known as hybrid. Apart from being a cafe with the traditional definition of being a place to eat, the current cafe also had a role as an alternative space. This was based on the achievement of several aspects to create a sense of comfort as a transitional educational space, namely table settings that provided private space for visitors, comfortable and comprehensive furniture, selection of materials, ambiance entertainment, lighting and acoustics, colors, and use of aesthetic elements.

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