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Arts Pub Date : 2026-07-08 DOI: 10.3390/arts15070160

Alexandra Kolb

{"title":"The Whimsical Inflatable: Pneumatic Objects in Contemporary Visual and Choreographic Art","authors":"Alexandra Kolb","doi":"10.3390/arts15070160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15070160","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses pneumatic (inflatable) objects as used in the work of four contemporary European artists from diverse disciplinary backgrounds: choreographers Adrienne Hart and Gabriella Engdahl, and visual artists Michael Shaw and Bambí Benkö. Deployed across deconsecrated churches, swimming pools, theatres, galleries and streets, these works demonstrate a broad spectrum of engagement with inflatables, ranging from formalist to existential, social and political-activist purposes—all implicating choreography in an expanded sense. Informed by theories from the visual arts, dance studies and sociology, as well as interviews with the artists themselves, the analysis adopts a multi-methodological approach attuned to this diversity. Overarching concerns about spectatorship, site and materiality centre on how inflatables’ precarious properties—porous seams requiring continual reinflation—engender playful instability and encourage interaction with audiences. Proposing ‘whimsy’ as a critical lens, the essay reimagines contemporary inflatables as cultural-choreographic objects that question disciplinary boundaries. The artists’ practices both extend a 1960s legacy of pneumatic experiments and redirect their utopian-critical impulses toward twenty-first-century issues.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148429221","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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Perspectives on Agency in New Kingdom Theban Tombs 新王国底比斯墓的代理透视

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-23 DOI: 10.3390/arts15070147

Marina Sartori

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Art- and Land-Oriented Educational Programmes in Britain, 1925 to the Present 1925年至今的英国艺术与土地导向教育计划

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-22 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060146

Anna Colin

{"title":"Art- and Land-Oriented Educational Programmes in Britain, 1925 to the Present","authors":"Anna Colin","doi":"10.3390/arts15060146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15060146","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes an exploration of British educational initiatives since 1925 that have brought together art- and land-oriented practices, particularly ones that are social, regenerative, and reparative. By juxtaposing historical and contemporary case studies, this article highlights uncharted connections between artistically infused ecopedagogies of past and present. Beyond surveying defunct and currently active educational programmes and comparing and analysing their mode of operation, pedagogies, and contributions to systems change, the article highlights a pattern of emergence, brief flourishing, and closure in art and ecology educational and research programmes in Britain since the 1990s. While Dartington Hall and the Village Colleges, the historical case studies, draw on secondary research, the contemporary ones—Goldsmiths’ MA Art & Ecology, Black Mountains College’s BA (Hons) Sustainable Futures: Arts, Ecology, and Systems Change, The Gathering, and The Gramounce—are composed from interviews conducted with their founder and other key protagonists as well as from empirical research. This article captures the continuities and discontinuities between historical experiments and contemporary initiatives, arguing for the ongoing relevance—and the institutional fragility—of an educational mode that refuses the separation of art and land.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148305421","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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How to Sample and Stretch a Prison Break: A Prelude to the Attica Blues 《越狱：阿提卡蓝调的前奏》如何取样和延伸

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-22 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060145

Christopher R. Rogers

{"title":"How to Sample and Stretch a Prison Break: A Prelude to the Attica Blues","authors":"Christopher R. Rogers","doi":"10.3390/arts15060145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15060145","url":null,"abstract":"In this experimental inquiry, I welcome readers into an unfolding undisciplined platform, expanding upon my earlier theorizing of philly soul musicking through insurgent listening to Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues in all of its radical, beautiful, and tragic public memory work of the 1971 Attica Uprising. Philly soul musicking gives regional texture to a transgenerational Black diasporic performance practice that serves to archive the complexity of Black lived experiences and articulate felt collective visions of liberated Black futures. Through these introductory comments, I improvise what I reckon to be essential to the secretive sonic histories of the album, giving shape to a fire music organizing praxis meant to call us into being-with the anticolonial worldmaking project that the men of Attica advanced with their hearts, minds, and bodies on the line. This prelude foreshadows a wider overall project speculating upon how Attica Blues and other related avenues of Black compositional practice attune us to assembling active solidarities with militants/rebels on the frontlines inventing rhythmic zones of autonomy, freedom, and liberation. I ask of the music’s fugitive archive, to draw on the words of James Baldwin, what are the contemporary use(s) of the Attica Blues?","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"251 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148305247","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 Porous Line 多孔管线

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-19 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060144

Jan Margaret Hogan

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“Blue, Upon Your Grave”: The Testament of Derek Jarman in Blue (1996) 《蓝色，在你的坟墓上》：德里克·贾曼的遗嘱（1996）

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-17 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060142

Cían Ó Donnchadha

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Contemporary Art on Climate Adaptation: Staking Trees and Bracing Spines in Singapore 适应气候变化的当代艺术：在新加坡树桩和支撑脊柱

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-15 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060139

Brianne Cohen

{"title":"Contemporary Art on Climate Adaptation: Staking Trees and Bracing Spines in Singapore","authors":"Brianne Cohen","doi":"10.3390/arts15060139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15060139","url":null,"abstract":"The Singaporean government’s Green Plan 2030 aims to “galvanize a whole-of-nation movement and advance [its] national agenda on sustainable development,” transforming the Garden City into a City in Nature. The state’s #OneMillionTrees campaign, which intends to plant a million trees over a decade, seems less focused on climate adaptation, given Singapore’s unresolved environmental issues such as oil refinement, terraforming, and hyperconsumption. Instead, it appears to superficially address deeper socioenvironmental wounds inflicted on the postcolonial people and land. In this article, I explore the visual culture of Singapore’s ableist-nationalist greening campaigns alongside artworks such as Marvin Tang’s A Guide to Tree Planting and History of 39 Cuttings—Hybrids, and Woong Soak Teng’s Ways to Tie Trees and Rules for Photographing a Scoliotic Patient. I argue that Tang and Woong highlight adaptation issues in the face of eco-ableist sustainability in Singapore, challenging simplistic notions of climate adaptation by attending to vulnerable, sexed and gendered more-than-human bodies. The field of art history has an opportunity to probe ableist visions of ecological sustainability—within an emerging discourse between environmental justice and disability studies—by historicizing and interpreting such art, as it speaks to enduring, more-than-human impairment and climate adaptation.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"23 1","pages":"139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148385879","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 Second that Emotion’: Modifiers as Expressive Devices in Songs by The Miracles “我支持那种情绪”：奇迹乐队歌曲中的修饰语作为表达手段

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-11 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060138

Bláithín Duggan

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Mosaic Methodologies: What Does a Regenerative Art Practice Look Like? 马赛克方法论：再生艺术实践是什么样子的？

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060119

Jesse Ash

{"title":"Mosaic Methodologies: What Does a Regenerative Art Practice Look Like?","authors":"Jesse Ash","doi":"10.3390/arts15060119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15060119","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reflects on how regenerative strategies used within the field of ecology can be considered in terms of Fine Art practice and pedagogy (and vice versa) and proposes how these methodological alliances inform and extend our understanding of the relationship between these disciplines. Building on recent interest in regenerative practice in the field of design and contemporary art, this piece of writing compares actions of ecological restoration with methods and processes taking place in the artist’s studio. Referencing specialists in the fields of regenerative agriculture, ecology and contemporary arts practice, this text suggests potential alignments and coalescences that broaden our understanding of what a ‘regenerative’ perspective may mean for art practice and, in particular, that of collage and painting, which are central to the author’s own work. This essay includes accounts and anecdotes from conversations with students in studio tutorials alongside recollections of conversations with tutors when I was a student, where discussions highlight processes and decision-making that align with what a ‘regenerative art practice’ might look like. In conclusion, building on Basarab Nicolescu’s proposal of the transdisciplinary, this essay locates the edge of boundaries as fertile ground for radical method-making.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"69 1","pages":"119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285623","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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Innovative Means of Artistic Expression in the Pipe Organ Music Literature and Improvisation Achieved Through the Use of Mechatronic Programmable Key Action Control System 利用机电可编程键动作控制系统实现管风琴音乐文学与即兴创作艺术表现的创新手段

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Arts Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.3390/arts15060120

Tomasz Mateusz Mońko

{"title":"Innovative Means of Artistic Expression in the Pipe Organ Music Literature and Improvisation Achieved Through the Use of Mechatronic Programmable Key Action Control System","authors":"Tomasz Mateusz Mońko","doi":"10.3390/arts15060120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/arts15060120","url":null,"abstract":"The pipe organ, unlike many other instruments used in so–called classical music, is inextricably entwined with technology and contemporary improvements throughout its history. The craftsmanship of organ building is closely related to the evolution of organ music, as can be seen in musical literature. These two fields have always propelled each other. This article provides a view of the author’s invention and its effect on music. The described project comprises two parts and closely links two supposedly distant fields. The first part is the instrument: a pipe organ equipped with a prototype mechatronic programmable key action. The other is the recording of the interpretations of existing baroque and contemporary literature and original improvisations, which constitutes research material and demonstrates the improved elements of artistic expression enabled by the enhanced capabilities of the prototype. Two methods of research were used: perceptual evaluation of the innovative means of expression and simplified FFT analysis of selected samples. Research results prove that automating the key action in the described manner leads to a significant expansion of the range of means of artistic expression achievable on the pipe organ.","PeriodicalId":30547,"journal":{"name":"Arts","volume":"13 1","pages":"120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148289688","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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