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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.
List of contents
Part I: Sites and Sentients 1. Performing with Trees as Shifting Attention 2. Nomadic Scenography and Fictional Space-Body 3. Urban Spaces between Norms and Dreams 4. Spatial References of Home - Moving on the Periphery of Public Space
Part II: Aesthetics and Practices 5. Photographic Parafictions (An Aside) 6. Formation of Artistic Identity - Applying Themes of Narrative Identity Development in Two Artists' Life Stories 7. Temporal Perspectives on Arctic Peripheries 8. We, A Peripheral Time-Space-Body: Notes on Encounterinvestigation, Corpo-Reality, and the Gentleness of Stones
Part III: Visual Culture Rearticulations 9. Something is Happening in and to the Margins: Black and Brown Cultural Interventions Changing a Multiple Northern Periphery 10. Touching Gestures - An Affective Reading of a Photograph of Asylum Seekers 11. Can Artists and Lawyers See the Same Goal? Understanding the Law of Ecocide through Art, Articulations, and Creativity
About the author
Maiju Loukola is an artist-researcher and university lecturer at the Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Helsinki.
Mari Mäkiranta is a visual artist and associate professor at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, and a docent at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies.
Jonna Tolonen is an artist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design.
Summary
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.
