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Arts Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.3390/arts14050103

Natalia Bursiewicz

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Saltatory Spectacles: (Pre)Colonialism, Travel, and Ancestral Lyric in the Middle Ages and Raymonda 《震荡的眼镜：（前）殖民主义、旅行和祖先的抒情在中世纪和雷蒙德》

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.3390/arts14050101

Kathryn Emily Dickason

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Operative Creativity: Art at the Intersection of Simulation and Realization 操作创造力：模拟与实现交汇的艺术

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.3390/arts14050099

Maayan Amir

{"title":"Operative Creativity: Art at the Intersection of Simulation and Realization","authors":"Maayan Amir","doi":"10.3390/arts14050099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts14050099","url":null,"abstract":"This essay proposes operative creativity as a conceptual and artistic response to the shifting roles of images in the age of algorithmic perception. Departing from Harun Farocki’s seminal artwork Eye/Machine, which first introduced the operative image as functioning not to represent but to activate within machinic processes, it traces the transformation of images from representational devices to machinic agents embedded in systems of simulation and realization. Although operative images were initially engineered for strictly technological functions, they have, from their inception, been subject to repurposing for human perception and interpretation. Drawing on literature theorizing the redirection of operative images within military, computational, and epistemic domains, the essay does not attempt a comprehensive survey. Instead, it opens a conceptual aperture within the framework, expanding it to illuminate the secondary redeployment of operative images in contemporary visual culture. Concluding with the artwork Terms and Conditions, co-created by Ruti Sela and the author, it examines how artistic gestures might neutralize the weaponized gaze, offering a mode of operative creativity that troubles machinic vision and reclaims a space for human opacity.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145026065","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}

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Curatorial Re-Action in Israel Post October 7th: The Approach of Empathy 十月七日后以色列策展人的反应：同理心的方法

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.3390/arts14050100

Tamar Mayer

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Expressive Circles—Original Concept Regarding the Structural and Dramaturgical Aspects of the Musical Composition in the Piece EXPRESSIVE CIRCLES—Three Pieces for Piano Trio: Composer’s Self-Reflection 表达圈——《表达圈》中关于乐曲结构与戏剧方面的原创概念——钢琴三重奏三首：作曲家的自我反思

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.3390/arts14040098

Patryk Kusiak

{"title":"Expressive Circles—Original Concept Regarding the Structural and Dramaturgical Aspects of the Musical Composition in the Piece EXPRESSIVE CIRCLES—Three Pieces for Piano Trio: Composer’s Self-Reflection","authors":"Patryk Kusiak","doi":"10.3390/arts14040098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts14040098","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this article is to present an original approach for modern composers to construct their musical work regarding its structural and dramaturgical aspects. The concept of Expressive circles originated primarily in inspirations taken from the movement in art called Surrealism and from music composed by Hanna Kulenty (which she describes as musique surrealistique). There are also parallels to other concepts (unism in music, surconventional deconstruction of the musical material) or to other composers (Witold Lutosławski). In the article, I present three types of Expressive circles (i.e., three form models)—closed structure, open structure and inverted structure. Each model is characterised by different approach to the musical theme and to its development in the musical piece. Considering the dramaturgical aspects of the work, the trance-like character of the music is important and there are two types of musical trances that I distinguish in Expressive circles, logarithm and drive; both are achieved differently in the musical work. The theoretical assumptions of the concept presented in the article are illustrated by chosen fragments from the score of my composition (EXPRESSIVE CIRCLES—Three pieces for piano trio) and by colourful schemes showing how the concept translates from theory to music.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025809","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}

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The Role of Art in the Revitalisation of Brownfield Sites—The Case of Nantes 艺术在棕地复兴中的作用——以南特为例

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.3390/arts14040097

Iwona Szustakiewicz

{"title":"The Role of Art in the Revitalisation of Brownfield Sites—The Case of Nantes","authors":"Iwona Szustakiewicz","doi":"10.3390/arts14040097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts14040097","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the role of art in the successful revitalisation of brownfield sites in Nantes. The city’s deindustrialization in the 1960s–80s caused a severe economic and social crisis. Significant areas were left behind by the abandoned factories, which were rapidly degrading, negatively affecting the entire city. Many of these were located on a river island in the city centre. Since the early 1990s, the Nantes authorities initiated a process of revitalising brownfield sites. They implemented several culture-led regeneration strategies. Nantes opened up to temporary events: street theatre shows and art festivals. The flagship project and symbol of renewal became Les Machines de Île, mobile, interactive machines that took over the previously degraded island and hark back to its industrial past. Site-specific art installations filled the city. The municipal authorities also started to implement the concept of a creative cluster, concentrating art colleges, cultural facilities, and creativity-related businesses on former wasteland. The use of a variety of strategies brought success, and the results went beyond the revitalised area. Cultural activities became an accelerator of change and contributed to the regeneration process of the city.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145026066","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}

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At Home in Chinatown: Community-Based Art Activism and Cultural Placemaking for Neighborhood Stabilization 在唐人街的家：社区艺术行动主义和社区稳定的文化场所营造

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.3390/arts14040095

Lily Song, Heang Leung Rubin

{"title":"At Home in Chinatown: Community-Based Art Activism and Cultural Placemaking for Neighborhood Stabilization","authors":"Lily Song, Heang Leung Rubin","doi":"10.3390/arts14040095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts14040095","url":null,"abstract":"Since the turn of the 21st century, urban studies and planning research has examined the strategic role of artists, arts organizations, and cultural activity as local and regional economic development catalysts. This article shifts the spotlight from the “creative class” and “creative industries” as drivers of a “creative city” to study the role of art, culture, and creative practices in community-led, place-based efforts to stabilize neighborhoods and advance more hopeful, healthy, and equitable urban futures. It explores Boston’s Chinatown, where community-based art activism has a long history of addressing critical issues such as reclaiming land taken by interstate highway and urban renewal projects, as well as combating gentrification and displacement through site activation. The case study focuses on Residence Lab, a community-based arts residency program initiated by the Pao Arts Center and the Asian Community Development Corporation that brought together multimedia artists with residents to collectively preserve Boston’s Chinatown through creative and artistic activation of underutilized sites in the neighborhood from 2019 to 2022. We examine a selection of ResLab projects, which give form and meaning to the struggles and aspirations of being at home in Chinatown and embody the art activism of partner organizations and program participants, along with the ResLab’s impacts on participating residents and artists. The concluding discussion considers ResLab’s contributions and implications for the shifting ways in which urban, political, and artistic cultures have intersected and impacted one another in Chinatown along with the relationship between collective action and the preservation and transformation of culture in the urban frame.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025386","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}

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“I Wanna See It Boil”: Satire as Eco-Political Performance in Talking Heads’s “(Nothing But) Flowers” (1988) and Anohni’s “4 Degrees” (2015) “我想看它沸腾”：讽刺作为生态政治表演出现在Talking Heads的《（除了）花》（1988）和阿诺尼的《4度》（2015）中

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.3390/arts14040096

Håvard Haugland Bamle

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When Words Become Voice: Intermedial Storytelling and Identity in the Georgian Folk Tale Master and Pupil 当言语成为声音：格鲁吉亚民间故事的主人和学生的中间叙事和身份

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.3390/arts14040094

Gül Mükerrem Öztürk

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The Specifics and Forms of Art in Contemporary Healthcare Facilities—European Trends 当代医疗设施艺术的特点和形式——欧洲趋势

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Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.3390/arts14040093

Rafał Strojny, Natalia Przesmycka

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