ArtsEqual 2015–2021: The challenges of a Large-Scale Research Initiative in Finland

The article presents the ArtsEqual initiative, which is funded by the strategic research council of the Academy of Finland. The six-year project, funded from a sub-programme aiming to increase equality in society, is constructed on the visionary question: What if the arts were understood to be an essential part of public services? The project sets out to identify mechanisms and remove barriers that hinder equality from being established both within the arts and through them in society at large. The project is multidisciplinary and draws largely upon participatory, practice-led methodologies. It is carried out in six research teams and in two phases, the first of which consisted of numerous arts interventions combined with research. The conclusive phase that links the findings and experiences from the case studies together via qualitative system analysis started in the beginning of 2018. The authors are leaders of two of the research teams, and here they present the entire research initiative as well as exemplary sub-studies from their own teams. They discuss the research project and the preliminary findings in view of the changing role of the artist in society, a shared problematic between their teams. They also reflect on the advantages and challenges that programmatic funding may bring to artistic practices and research.

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It’s All in the Reading

Arts ◽

10.3390/arts9010019 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 19

Author(s):

Déirdre Kelly

Keyword(s):

Contemporary Art ◽

Mass Production ◽

Large Scale ◽

Book Production ◽

Art Practice ◽

The Arts ◽

History Of ◽

First Time ◽

The City

It seems inherent in the nature of contemporary artist’s book production to continue to question the context for the genre in contemporary art practice, notwithstanding the medium’s potential for dissemination via mass production and an unquestionable advantage of portability for distribution. Artists, curators and editors operating in this sector look to create contexts for books in a variety of imaginative ways, through exhibition, commission, installations, performance and, of course as documentation. Broadening the discussion of the idea of the book within contemporary art practice, this paper examines the presence and role of book works within the context of the art biennale, in particular the Venice Art Biennale of which the 58th iteration (2019) is entitled ‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ and curated by Ralph Rugoff, with an overview of the independent International cultural offerings and the function of the ‘Book Pavilion’. Venetian museums and institutions continue to present vibrant diverse works within the arena of large-scale exhibitions, recognising the position that the book occupies in the history of the city. This year, the appearance for the first time, of ‘Book Biennale’, opens up a new and interesting dialogue, taking the measure of how the book is being promoted and its particular function for visual communication within the arts in Venice and beyond.

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The Changing Role of Tourism Policy in Singapore's Cultural Development: From Explicit to Insidious

Tourism Culture & Communication ◽

10.3727/194341419x15542140077648 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 231-242

Author(s):

Can-Seng Ooi

Keyword(s):

Social Engineering ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Cultural Development ◽

Cultural Dynamics ◽

The Arts ◽

Economic Support ◽

The Government ◽

City State ◽

Changing Role

In the last three decades, Singapore has transformed from a cultural desert to a global arts city, thanks significantly to tourism. The Singapore Tourism Board was proactively shaping the cultural dynamics and policy of Singapore until 2012. But since then its official role in the country's arts and cultural development almost disappeared. The disappearance of tourism interests in cultural development stems apparently from years of resistance, dialogues, and negotiation. This study argues that the tourism authorities are still maintaining influence in the cultural dynamics and development of Singapore by reframing its involvement. It insidiously asserts its influence by enticing members of the arts community with resources, opportunities, and economic support to participate in the tourism industry. This article provides a dialogical understanding of how tourism has shaped Singapore's cultural dynamics. Cultural dynamics and tourism development in Singapore must be understood within economic and social engineering perimeters defined by the government. The tourism authorities do not only work with other government authorities, they use similar techniques in managing and controlling cultural development in the city-state. The Bakhtinian Dialogic Imagination is the heuristic that organizes and structures the complex and dynamic tourism–culture relations in this study. Three dialogical concepts—carnivalesque, heteroglossia, and polyphony—are used. Besides documenting the ongoing evolution of tourism in the cultural development of Singapore, this study questions the effectiveness of the arm's length approach to managing cultural development. The Singapore case shows that there are subtle economic and political ways to go round that principle.

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Role of rift-inheritance and segmentation for orogenic evolution: example from the Pyrenean-Cantabrian system

BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin ◽

10.1051/bsgf/2020021 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 191 ◽

pp. 18 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rodolphe Lescoutre ◽

Gianreto Manatschal

Keyword(s):

Cross Sections ◽

Seismic Data ◽

Large Scale ◽

Sedimentary Cover ◽

First Order ◽

Segment Boundary ◽

Orogenic Wedge ◽

Mountain Belts ◽

Two Phases

The Basque-Cantabrian junction corresponds to an inverted rift accommodation zone at the limit between the former hyperextended Pyrenean and Cantabrian rift segments. The recognition of an inherited rift segment boundary allows to investigate the reactivation associated with large-scale rift segmentation in an orogenic system. We use criteria from published field observations and seismic data to propose a new map of rift domains for the Basque-Cantabrian junction. We also provide balanced cross-sections that allow to define the along-strike architecture associated with segmentation during rifting and subsequent Alpine reactivation. Based on these results, this study aims to characterize and identify reactivated and newly formed structures during inversion of two rift segments and its intermitted segment boundary. It also aims to describe the timing of thin-skinned and thick-skinned deformation associated with the inversion of segmented rift systems. During convergence, two phases have been recognized within the rift segment (eastern Mauléon basin). The Late Cretaceous to Paleocene underthrusting/subduction phase was mostly governed by thin-skinned deformation that reactivated the former hyperextended domains and the supra-salt sedimentary cover. The Eocene to Miocene collisional phase, controlled by thick-skinned deformation that took place once necking domains collided and formed an orogenic wedge. At the rift segment boundary, the underthrusting/subduction phase was already controlled by thick-skinned deformation due to the formation of shortcutting thrust faults at the termination of overlapping V-shaped rift segments. This led to the formation of a proto-wedge composed of the Basque massifs. We suggest that this proto-wedge is responsible for the preservation of pre-Alpine structures in the Basque massifs and for the emplacement of subcontinental mantle rocks at a crustal level beneath the western Mauléon basin. These results argue for a first order cylindrical orogenic architecture from the Central Pyrenean segment to the Cantabrian segment (up to the Santander transfer zone) despite rift segmentation. They also highlight the control of 3D rift-inheritance for the initial phase of orogenic evolution and for the local architecture of mountain belts.

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The Ecology and History of the Mediterranean Olive Grove: The Spanish Great Expansion, 1750 - 2000

Rural History ◽

10.1017/s0956793312000052 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 161-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

JUAN INFANTE-AMATE

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Olive Grove ◽

Crop Cultivation ◽

Industrial Enterprises ◽

History Of ◽

Olive Groves ◽

Olive Trees ◽

Peasant Farmers ◽

Changing Role

AbstractThis article argues that the landscape dominated by olive groves that is now seen as characteristic of southern Spain is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the eighteenth, nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, olives were not an industrial crop, grown on a large scale for the production of oil. Instead, olive trees were largely grown by small peasant farmers and used to produce timber and fodder as well as foodstuffs, forming one component of a diverse peasant economy. This article will analyse the changing role of the olive within the landscape of the Spanish Mediterranean, and explore the process by which production moved towards single crop cultivation by large industrial enterprises.

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Disorderly conduct: the community in the archive

Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447341895.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 19-38

Author(s):

Simon Popple

Keyword(s):

Research Council ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Essential Component ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

The Arts ◽

Disorderly Conduct ◽

Community Archive ◽

Changing Role ◽

Connected Communities

This chapter examines the transition and alignments of communities through a consideration built around the changing role of the community in the photographic archive and the shift from subjecthood to agency. It also examines the use of the photographic archive as a means of exploring the new potentialities of the community archive. The chapter reflects on the sense of the community as pictured within the archive and the increasing potential of self-archiving and curation afforded by new digital technologies. It draws on recent projects funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Connected Communities and Digital Transformations schemes. A model in which the disruptive can be privileged and the counterfactual become an essential component of the archivist's armoury is offered.

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THE ROLE OF OBIDJON MAKHMUDOV`S ARTICLES AT THE "SADOYI FERGANA" NEWSPAPER IN THE SOCIO-POLITICAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY

Конференции ◽

10.47100/conferences.v1i1.920 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Nodirbek Komilov

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Cultural Development ◽

Xxth Century ◽

History Of ◽

In The Beginning

This paper is devoted to the Obidjon Makhmudov articles` role inthe history of Turkestan at the end of 19th - in the beginning of XXth century. Articleprovides information about the large-scale reforms of the scientist as a publisher ofthe "Sadoyi Fergana" newspaper and a reformator.

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Frequency patterns of semantic change: corpus-based evidence of a near-critical dynamics in language change

Royal Society Open Science ◽

10.1098/rsos.170830 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (11) ◽

pp. 170830 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Q. Feltgen ◽

B. Fagard ◽

J.-P. Nadal

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Language Change ◽

Driving Mechanism ◽

Semantic Change ◽

Linguistic Item ◽

Frequency Of Use ◽

S Curve ◽

Two Phases ◽

Passage Times

It is generally believed that when a linguistic item acquires a new meaning, its overall frequency of use rises with time with an S-shaped growth curve. Yet, this claim has only been supported by a limited number of case studies. In this paper, we provide the first corpus-based large-scale confirmation of the S-curve in language change. Moreover, we uncover another generic pattern, a latency phase preceding the S-growth, during which the frequency remains close to constant. We propose a usage-based model which predicts both phases, the latency and the S-growth. The driving mechanism is a random walk in the space of frequency of use. The underlying deterministic dynamics highlights the role of a control parameter which tunes the system at the vicinity of a saddle-node bifurcation. In the neighbourhood of the critical point, the latency phase corresponds to the diffusion time over the critical region, and the S-growth to the fast convergence that follows. The durations of the two phases are computed as specific first-passage times, leading to distributions that fit well the ones extracted from our dataset. We argue that our results are not specific to the studied corpus, but apply to semantic change in general.

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