Showing papers in "Journal of Visual Art Practice in 2018"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore ways along which archaeological and artistic practices of improvisation become entangled and productive through their different modes of mark-making, including remote sensing, surveying, mattocking, trowelling, drawing, photographing, videoing and sound recording.
Abstract: In this article we explore what we perceive as pertinent features of shared experience at the excavations of an Iron Age Hillfort at Bodfari, North Wales, referencing artist, archaeologist and examples of seminal art works and archaeological records resulting through inter-disciplinary collaboration. We explore ways along which archaeological and artistic practices of improvisation become entangled and productive through their different modes of mark-making. We contend that marks and memories of artist and archaeologist alike emerge interactively, through the mutually constituting effects of the object of study, the tools of exploration, and the practitioners themselves, when they are enmeshed in the cross-modally bound activities. These include, but are not limited to, remote sensing, surveying, mattocking, trowelling, drawing, photographing, videoing and sound recording. These marks represent the co-signatories: the gesture of the often anonymous practitioners, the voice of the deposits, as well as the imprint of the tools, and their interplay creates a multi-threaded narrative documenting their modes of intra-action, in short our practices. They occupy the conceptual space of paradata, and in the process of saturating the interstices of digital cognitive prosthetics they lend probity to their translations in both art form and archive.
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TL;DR: The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials as mentioned in this paper is a valuable addition to the scholarly literature on biennials and other large-scale art exhibitions, focusing on the relationships between artists and artists.
Abstract: The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials is, in many respects, a valuable addition to the scholarly literature on biennials and other large-scale exhibitions. Panos Kompatsiaris’s book draws on a...
8 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how their scholarly training as an anthropologist informs the way they produce and understand what they do as a traditional Thai temple muralist, thinking about personhood and con...
Abstract: In this article, I explore how my scholarly training as an anthropologist informs the way I produce and understand what I do as a traditional Thai temple muralist. Thinking about personhood and con...
8 citations
TL;DR: There has been very little literature published to date on the links between the feminist art movement and its connection with specific art media, other than the notion of the feminine embracing of women as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: There has been very little literature published to date on the links between the feminist art movement and its connection with specific art media, other than the notion of the feminine embracing of...
4 citations
TL;DR: The authors explored the social and political implications of art and left-wing populism through the work of the British artist and taxi driver Mark McGowan and his project Artist Taxi Driver, employing a direct language and an aggressive anti-neoliberal rhetoric grounded on widespread populist binaries, such as the "elites" and the "people".
Abstract: Philosophical aesthetics is routinely grounded upon a binary opposition separating art, a reflective and contemplative activity, from popular culture, the brute and philistine cultural expressions of the masses. While art is expected to have a broadly conceived educational mission, it has to simultaneously denounce such popular culture forms that involve propaganda, didacticism and immediacy in order to legitimize itself socially. This paper explores the social and political implications of art and left-wing populism through the work of the British artist and taxi driver Mark McGowan and his project Artist Taxi Driver. Employing a direct language and an aggressive anti-neoliberal rhetoric grounded on widespread populist binaries, such as the ‘elites’ and the ‘people’, McGowan enacts a militant artistic persona in his series of YouTube videos. His daily commentary on subjects such as the Greek crisis, the Scottish referendum and the Jeremy Corbyn election both challenges the split between art and p...
4 citations
TL;DR: Artists' embedded reinterpretation results in responsive artwork, made and sited in proximity to existing artefacts, the latter acting as a source as discussed by the authors, which holds implications and anticipations for a body of cultural history while contesting periodisation.
Abstract: Artists’ embedded reinterpretation results in responsive artwork, made and sited in proximity to existing artefacts, the latter acting as a source. Typically applied through the practice of contemporary art interventions in museums and other sites of cultural heritage, the methodology provides a practice-based means of broad thematic, conceptual or contextual critique, which goes beyond approaches which emphasise purely formal resonances. How embedded reinterpretation produces dramatic juxtaposition as a form of historicisation is important as its associated methods enable both a retrospective and a prospective focus. This holds implications and anticipations for a body of cultural history while contesting periodisation, enabling imaginative disruption of otherwise orderly environments.
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TL;DR: In this article, the holographic model is assumed to be a form of post-conceptual art, and the authors propose a holographic form as a physical alternative that combines the same three definitions of an object into a unified physical form.
Abstract: Among all of the new media arts, holography has not yet been thoroughly understood due to its complicated visual and technical structure, which may cause misconceptions about its real content or perhaps an underestimation of its artistic value This research, therefore, raises an attempt to reinterpret the visual representation theory of the holographic object by using Joseph Kosuth’s conceptual assumption in his conceptual artworks as a model to conceptually decode the holographic scene While Kosuth’s conceptual art is represented by three separate conceptual definitions of an object (real, visual and verbal), this research investigates the holographic form as a physical alternative that combines the same three definitions of an object into a unified physical form Hence, this research assumes that the holographic model is a form of post-conceptual art By emphasizing the crucial role of scientific research in the recent revolutionary artistic and cultural trends in our contemporary societies, t
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TL;DR: In the late 1950s, interest in intermedium experimentation prompted North American avant-garde artists and poets to explore the visuality of writing at an unprecedented level as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Beginning from the late 1950s, interest in intermedium experimentation prompted North American avant-garde artists and poets to explore the visuality of writing at an unprecedented level. Thanks to...
3 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the role of inertia as a self-referential force, which at the same time is propulsive and negative, in regard to the w...
Abstract: Inertia is a movement, whose dynamic is self-referential: it arrests and returns to itself. I will consider this force, which at the same time is propulsive and negative, in regard to the w...
2 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which "pictorial art" resists legibility, transparency and coherence is explored. And the analysis of three artistic case studies, Idris Khan, Maria Chevska and Jane and Louise W...
Abstract: The article explores the extent to which ‘pictorial art’ resists legibility, transparency and coherence. The analysis of three artistic case studies, Idris Khan, Maria Chevska and Jane and Louise W...
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TL;DR: The authors describe a piece of practice-led drawing research called Nine Drawings (2016), which is a first-person investigation combining serial drawing, Bergsonian philosophy, and a p...
Abstract: This article describes a piece of practice-led drawing research titled: Nine Drawings (2016). Treated as a first-person investigation combining serial drawing, Bergsonian philosophy and a p...
TL;DR: In this article, the perceptual phenomenon of indistinctness and its connection to abstract concepts is discussed. And the authors argue that the "indistinct" serves the function of experiential "source domain" for the abstract "target domain" concepts of non-duality, limitlessness, infinity and existential immersion.
Abstract: I address the perceptual phenomenon of indistinctness and its connection to abstract concepts. The paradox that interests me is how a situation of diminished clarity and ambiguity problematizes and undermines normal vision while making way for another kind of seeing and knowing where we seem to inhabit a slippery moment of change or action, and are engaged in mobile, transitory and spontaneous negotiations of space and time. My discussion relates to the shift in theory and practice towards the exploration of the elusive middle, in-between or nondichotomous relation. Applying conceptual metaphor theory, I argue that the ‘indistinct’ serves the function of experiential ‘source domain’ for the abstract ‘target domain’ concepts of non-duality, limitlessness, infinity and existential immersion. I use a comparative methodology by exploring intercultural aesthetics and draw attention to an alternative paradigm. I look at a recursive orientation in which the ‘indistinct’ carries a more positive ontologica...
TL;DR: The Chair of La Biennale di Venezia, Paolo Baratta, has written that the overarching concept of the 2017 Viva Arte Viva is to be a celebration of "the very existence of art and...
Abstract: The Chair of La Biennale di Venezia – Paolo Baratta – has written that the overarching concept of the Venice Biennale of 2017 Viva Arte Viva is to be a celebration of ‘the very existence of art and...
TL;DR: In this paper, the power of invisibility to provoke and unsettle in two of the Wilson's installations: Stasi City (1997) and A Free and Anonymous Monument (2003) is examined.
Abstract: This article examines the power of invisibility to provoke and unsettle in two of the Wilson’s installations: Stasi City (1997) and A Free and Anonymous Monument (2003). The two installations are distinct, and by no means repeat their claims. Nevertheless, their juxtaposition gives insight into some of the different guises of invisibility threaded through two of the Wilson’s most visible installations. Through an exposure of the invisible, I argue that the Wilson sisters’ experimental images and installations are involved in a complex multi-layered critique of otherwise secret political and ideological structures, structures and systems that are in every way off-limits. The two installations do not just make visible what is invisible – state crimes, personal violation, abandonment, social neglect – they probe this invisibility and find what it is not permissible to visualize.
TL;DR: In this article, a reader may be somewhat bemused by the enormity of this book's title, behind the hyperbole lies a valid and valid question: "What Do Drawing and Painting Really Mean?"
Abstract: ‘What Do Drawing and Painting Really Mean?’ is a question that demands attention. While a reader may be somewhat bemused by the enormity of this book’s title, behind the hyperbole lies a valid and ...
TL;DR: In the last decade, everything has been slowly experimented against and smashed to pieces, from mimetic representation, through image making, canvas, colour, artwork, all the way to the artist herself, her signature,...
Abstract: Everything has been slowly experimented against and smashed to pieces, from mimetic representation, through image making, canvas, colour, artwork, all the way to the artist herself, her signature, ...