Open Arts JournalPub Date : 2020-08-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2020s00
Fionna Barber, E. Byrne
{"title":"BREXIT WOUNDS: ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESPONSES TO LEAVING THE EU: INTRODUCTION","authors":"Fionna Barber, E. Byrne","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2020s00","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2020s00","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue offers a timely and current critical evaluation of the morbid symptoms and potential wounds of ‘Brexit Culture’ as its implications, causes and effects unravel in front of a global audience via multiple media in real time. Brexit cultures, for the purposes of our articles here, attends to the role of cultural production in forging political choices, and to the cultural dimensions of Brexit – as a response to living in times of crisis and uncertainty. Departing from solely political or economic evaluations of Brexit’s effects, contributions to the special issue explore how the humanities and social sciences, artists and writers engage with the challenges, threats and potential disasters of Brexit. This issue interrogates how multiple constituencies that make up the inhabitants of the UK deal with a climate of continued uncertainty about definitions and effects of Brexit as they unfold in everyday cultural practices and specific locations, and what kind of responses or symptoms we can identify in current discourses of national and international culture. In these unusual and unprecedented circumstances, this issue brings together academics and practitioners from the arts, humanities and social sciences in a creative and constructive dialogue around the cultural issues posed by Brexit. The articles cover subjects such as migration, citizenship and populism, violent borders and hostile environments, Brexit as an empty vessel, imaginary landscapes, fictions of the nation, banal nationalism, Brexit wounds – hurts, pains and feelings. They reflect on conceptualisations of Brexit as disaster, deferral, delay and repetition, Brexlit and new cultural forms, Brexit metaphors and tautologies, populism and resistance, citizenship, race and belonging, Brexit’s effects on individuals, communities and constructions or depictions of families.","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115870200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 2019-05-13DOI: 10.5456/ISSN.2050-3679/2019S00
Tilo Reifenstein
{"title":"Between sensuous and making-sense-of: an introduction","authors":"Tilo Reifenstein","doi":"10.5456/ISSN.2050-3679/2019S00","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/ISSN.2050-3679/2019S00","url":null,"abstract":"In seeking to position the Open Arts Journal’s special issue ‘Between sensuous and making-sense-of’ the introduction opens by probing notions of binarity that are instrumental to the commonplace division of affect and meaning, sensing and intelligibility, material and discursive, and sensuous and sense-making. Subsequently, a variety of philosophical approaches that have sought to recognise the metaphysical underpinnings of such oppositionality are presented to indicate why this special issue has sought to explore the shared spaces of these terms as a fruitful arena of enquiry. Writing itself, whether art-historical writing or any other, is presented as a practice that inevitably partakes in material contingencies that engage the writer sensorially and sensuously. The epistemic trajectory of writing is thus already embroiled in the contingencies of material encounters. The introduction therefore indicates how writerly approaches that break down the binaries of intelligibility and the sensible fit into the historically shifting understanding of knowledge. Finally, a brief sketch of discourses around materiality and precis for all contributions are provided.","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114844286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s08
V. Campbell
{"title":"Pompa in Pompeii: Experiencing a funeral procession in the ancient city","authors":"V. Campbell","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117135009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s03
Nathaniel B. Jones
{"title":"Material and immaterial religion in Pompeian painting","authors":"Nathaniel B. Jones","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"379 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114889130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s05
S. Buoso
{"title":"Outside the spectrum: poietic encounters of light-matter","authors":"S. Buoso","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s05","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes a re-think of the poiesis of materiality in contemporary arts through arguments about the agency, processuality and ethics of the material and its supplements. Informed by new materialisms, the essay contributes to the repositioning of the practice of poiesis in an artistic context by establishing a new modality of Althusser’s ‘encountering the material’ from proximity to matter to the mastery of techniques. By investigating the etymology of the term ‘spectrum’, the paper sidelines the logic of classical materialism that encounters affective dispositions in the milieu of materiality, which reaches into the space of language, re-presentation and experience. The paper focuses on the poiesis of light’s matter by introducing James Turrell’s artistic practice, which explores the epiphany of a materiality of difference. Poiesis comes to identify a disposition toward the potentialities and actualities of the material, where the sensorium of experience coexists with the logic of techne. While the frames of material practices interrogate both the originary system of materiality and the virtuality of technologies, poiesis draws on these differences to cultivate a horizon of meaning and experience.","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125102062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s03
Thalia Allington-Wood
{"title":"Rocky encounters in the Sacro Bosco of Bomarzo","authors":"Thalia Allington-Wood","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114746695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s07
J. Boivin
{"title":"Rocaille ornamental agency and the dissolution of self in the rococo environment","authors":"J. Boivin","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2019s07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128323864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s06
J. Sheppard
{"title":"Guardians of the threshold: The image of the gladiator and its protective function in Pompeii","authors":"J. Sheppard","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128048746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s07
Ivo van der Graaff, E. Poehler
{"title":"Tracing procession routes for the principal cults in Pompeii","authors":"Ivo van der Graaff, E. Poehler","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s07","url":null,"abstract":"Pompeii preserves vivid representations of religious processions in frescoes painted on the Shop of the Carpenter’s Procession and in the House of the Wedding of Hercules. Announcements for gladiatorial games as well as a funerary relief recovered from the necropolis at the Stabian gate attest to the presence of processions associated with festivities in the Amphitheatre and the Forum. A further inscription placed inside the Stabian gate describes a Via Pumpaiiana, presumably named for its role as a possible processional route (Greek pompé, procession). These glimpses into processional events suggest that vibrant displays were common in Pompeii, yet the routes that such processions took remain virtually unknown. Using evidence from inscriptions, visual culture, spatial analysis, and Roman religious traditions, this chapter is a preliminary attempt to gather the evidence for processional routes related to the principal cults in Pompeii. From this evidence, it proposes to chart a few tentative routes taken by public religious processions.","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128406054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open Arts JournalPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s00
Jessica Hughes
{"title":"Material religion in Pompeii: Introduction","authors":"Jessica Hughes","doi":"10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s00","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5456/issn.2050-3679/2021s00","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":269843,"journal":{"name":"Open Arts Journal","volume":"480 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116535677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}