{"title":"Gathering effects: structuralist activity in Form, 1966-69","authors":"Matthew Allen","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2023.2214412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2214412","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The collision of constructivist artistic practice and structuralist philosophy was showcased in the journal Form, published from 1966 to 1969 out of Cambridge, England. Concrete poetry flourished alongside kinetic art; architecture dissolved into environmental design; experimentation with new media techniques replaced expressions of meaning. This essay describes how the editorial work that brought Form into being served to gather disparate strands into a shared disciplinary agenda that marks an apotheosis of 1960s visual art.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"85 1","pages":"147 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363808","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}
{"title":"Already bad enough when the name was but a name","authors":"Christian Bök","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2022.2148899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2022.2148899","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson recounts the story of a man divided against himself, oscillating between two identities – one decent (named Jekyll) and one wicked (named Hyde). This short essay by Christian Bök examines the transitions that occur in the narrative, when the proper names shift from one moniker to the other in reference to the protagonist: each name vying for ‘citation’ in the story, thereby attempting to predominate, as a signifier, throughout the course of events. The narrative (perhaps coincidentally) maintains an almost equal usage of these two names, as if preserving an equilibrium of tensions between their contrarian identities, balancing them almost perfectly, giving each character 100 chances to be mentioned. The form of the story thus seems to perform the idea of eponymic division, indicated within the plot.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"79 1","pages":"287 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364201","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}
{"title":"Separate States","authors":"Jane Birkin","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2022.2141425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2022.2141425","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This piece separates various parts of a series of readymade archival image descriptions and relocates them into new, categorised spaces. With separation and relocation, the narrative of events apparent in the descriptions and in the album of photographs they define is de-emphasised (although the narrative can, in part, be re-built, due to archival systems of enumeration). The rules, conventions, tropes and repetitions of description writing are exposed in this piece, and this allows new connections to be made and imagined across the unseen images themselves.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"49 1","pages":"203 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363622","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}
{"title":"Situating deaf-gain: performance and writing in the work of and Aaron Williamson","authors":"Aaron Williamson, Larry Lynch","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2023.2221910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2221910","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article takes the form of an interview, between performance artist and writer, Aaron Williamson, and the poet, artist and teacher, Larry Lynch. Talking across Williamson’s practice of the last three decades, and its compositional, conceptual, and contextual development, the conversation focusses on the situating of language and writing in, and around, a broad conception of performance. The discussion is further framed by Williamson’s experience as a d/Deaf person, a subject position that invigorates a radical socio-linguistic critique.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"8 1","pages":"291 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363484","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}
{"title":"Visual inspirations of A Little Life","authors":"C. Özmen","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2023.2195235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2195235","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Hanya Yanagihara’s critically acclaimed second novel A Little Life was published in 2015 and despite its length and disturbing thematic concerns soon became a bestseller. Yanagihara has laid her creative process bare in various interviews and has been open about the intermedial inspiration she has drawn from photography and painting. These sources provide an opportunity for the scholar to accurately and precisely trace how visual arts interact with the text before, during, and even after its conception. Critics predominantly responded to the novel about how comprehensively the author depicted child sexual abuse, violence, and trauma. The author merges generic conventions such as the Bildungsroman and fairy tale while constructing her plot and draws a significant amount of her inspiration from images. Seemingly contrasting affective impressions emanating from the images and the text converge in harmony and lead to an apt portrayal of the protagonist’s psyche and the reader’s ambiguous perception of his trauma. The article scrutinizes the use of photographs, paintings, and other visual material in the creative process of the novel in an ekphrastic mode both descriptively and non-descriptively, the latter to create a mood in the story rather than present a realistic depiction of the objects in question.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"10 1","pages":"229 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363651","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}
{"title":"Situations of writing","authors":"Jane Birkin, Sunil Manghani","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2023.2237318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2237318","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article provides a critical introduction to a double issue of Journal of Visual Art Practice. The issue, titled ‘Situations of Writing’, explores the intersections of art practice, hybrid forms of writing, and knowledge production. It draws together a variety of contributions that variously delve into the complexities of writing with and around images, emphasising experimental approaches, and reimagining traditional scholarly publishing. This introduction situates the key problematics, drawing upon historical examples, but within the present-day context of academic, digital publishing. The editors urge practitioners to challenge conventional modes of academic writing, inviting makers, authors and readers to have a stake in an evolving landscape of art practice and visual culture studies. Setting out a combined exploration (and making) of form, content, and the structures of address, this special issue paves the way for new possibilities in scholarly research and knowledge dissemination.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"532 1","pages":"93 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363630","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}
{"title":"Good form: visual and textual notes on an archive activation","authors":"Andrea Stultiens","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2023.2170074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2170074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How can artistic interventions inform these photographs while both literally and proverbially ‘reframing’ them in an attempt to contribute to decolonial thinking? This journal contribution provides insight into a methodology of artistic research, based on Jacques Rancière's positioning of artistic practice, used to investigate a collection of photographs produced by a researcher collecting data in Sierra Leone in 1934. The photographs were produced in an unequal power relationship facilitated by colonial conditions. The historical pictures are reframed by expanding the individual photographic frame within the historical collection of photographs, and with present day stakeholders in Sierra Leone.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"88 1","pages":"273 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364086","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}
{"title":"Marcel Duchamp’s ‘The Creative Act’","authors":"Jacquelynn Baas","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2023.2185371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2185371","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT An exegetical hermeneutical commentary on Marcel Duchamp’s essay ‘The Creative Act,’ where Duchamp summarized his views on the nature of the creative process, the ‘work’ of art, and the roles played by artists, art participants, and posterity.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"8 1","pages":"133 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139364224","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}
{"title":"Tangled Hierarchy: an interview with Jitish Kallat","authors":"Ed D’Souza, Sunil Manghani","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2023.2240157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2023.2240157","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents an interview with artist Jitish Kallat, on the occasion of his curation of the exhibition, Tangled Hierarchy (2 June–10 September 2022), at the John Hansard Gallery (UK); and later staged at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India (13 December 2022–10 April 2023). The focal point of the exhibition are five brief notes written by Mahatma Gandhi on the backs of old envelopes, which Kallat viewed in the Archives of the University of Southampton. Penned on 2 June 1947, as a means of communication with Lord Mountbatten despite Gandhi undertaking a vow of silence, the envelopes pertain to the imminent partition of the Indian subcontinent. Opening on 2 June 2022, so marking 75 years of the momentous meeting, Tangled Hierarchy presented a carefully curated display of historically and geographically diverse contributions; establishing a complex, layered reading of histories, perspectives and meanings.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"9 1","pages":"211 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363768","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}
{"title":"Between in three times","authors":"Victor Burgin","doi":"10.1080/14702029.2022.2160545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2022.2160545","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The author retrospectively reviews the aesthetic and political preoccupations of his 1986 book Between on the occasion of its 2020 republication.","PeriodicalId":35077,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Visual Art Practice","volume":"28 1","pages":"167 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363853","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}