Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies: Peripheries in Parallax (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists. The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial, conceptual, and theoretical hierarchies and biased assumptions of ‘peripheries’ are challenged. Chapters provide a diverse collection of viewpoints, analyses, and provocations on ‘peripherality’ through bringing together international specialists to discuss the socio-political, aesthetic, artistic, ethical, and legal implications of ‘peripheral approach.’ The aim is to illuminate the existing, hidden, often incommensurable, and controversial margins in the society at large from equal, ethical, and empathic perspectives. The book is designed to assist established researchers, academics, and students across disciplines who wish to incorporate novel, arts and practice-based research and critical approaches in their research projects, artwork, and academic writing. Providing both a consolidated understanding of the peripheries, visual studies, and artistic research as they are and setting expansive and new research insights and practices, this book is essential reading for scholars of arts and humanities, visual culture, art history, design, philosophy, and cultural studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Contributors Introduction Notes References Part I: Sites and sentients 1. Performing with trees as shifting attention Practicing in a park Repeated visits and respect for the site Hanging in a pine tree Does this make sense to you, pine? Addressing the pine Notes References 2. Nomadic scenography and fictional space-body A journey to the periphery of design Scenography as bringing-forth Connection to the art of walking Wandering room and speculative middle Antihumanism and distributed agency Place of emptiness and state of lack Wandering towards assemblage Varpusenlinna Päijätsalo, Pulkkilanharju and Kelvenne Place of emptiness and scenographic assemblage By nomadism towards the rhizome Return from the periphery to the centre Notes References 3. Urban spaces between norms and dreams City space forming in the crossing of normative and affective practices Attachment to a site Situational practices in arts Art intervening the top-up ruled city space Putting dreaming techniques into practice Horizons Notes References 4. Spatial references of home: Moving on the periphery of public space Introduction First experiential artistic operation Second experiential artistic operation Third experiential artistic operation Fourth experiential artistic operation A phenomenon emerges on the fringe of our immediate surroundings Walking home Rehearsing home Gaining home Moving home in public space A prosthesis of home An aesthetic experience on the borders of the public and private Wanderlust and the screen - representing the unreal-real home Conclusion Notes References Part II: Aesthetics and practices 5. Photographic parafictions (an aside) Placing Construction Parafiction (a paradox) Beside Point taken Unknown fear The peripheral space of photography Dissemination in place of a conclusion Notes References 6. Formation of artistic identity: Applying themes of narrative identity development in two artists' life stories Narratives of artistic identity formation Themes of agency and communion Generativity The role of chance in becoming an artist Conclusion Notes References 7. Temporal perspectives on Arctic peripheries Introduction Arctic peripheries From arctic peripheries to a Mediterranean centre The arctic: the global gaze to the north Journeying to the centre of the earth A deep-time view Bjørnøya's deep time exposures Tetrapod trackways Disrupting temporal structures Making impressions along Bjørnøya's coast Sailing through an ice field Resonances of snow and ice Conclusion Notes References 8. We, a peripheral time-space-body: Notes on encounter-investigation, corpo-reality, and the gentleness of stones A flickering landscape Many of them cried From limit to threshold Near and yet far The sound of subversion Towards a peripheral being Epilogue Notes References Part III: Visual culture rearticulations 9. Something is happening in and to the margins: Black and Brown cultural interventions changing a multiple Northern periphery Brown girls - a virtual space by and for Brown people Yeboyah - picturing different Finnishness, making new spaces of comfort Notes References 10. Touching gestures: An affective reading of a photograph of asylum seekers Affective and multisensory approaches The photograph as a site for sensory experiences Affective resonance in a photograph Finding a place in the northern landscape Towards the affective reading method and challenging assumptions Notes References 11. Can artists and lawyers see the same goal?: Understanding the law of ecocide through art, articulations, and creativity The peripheral boundaries of heart, law, and mandala land art Rearticulations as the powerhouse for the song Wonder (Law of Ecocide) Turtle Song - the pace of amending international criminal law and the changing consciousness Conclusions Notes References In memoriam Ari Hirvonen: Balcony: a peripheral space between intimate and political Introduction Balcony watches you Space of interiority Space of power Space of community Space for disagreement Conclusions References Index