Pip Fincher, John McLoughlin, Morgan Lee, Gifty Andoh Appiah
{"title":"Identity, Creativity and Performance Spaces in Wales and Southwest England","authors":"Pip Fincher, John McLoughlin, Morgan Lee, Gifty Andoh Appiah","doi":"10.18573/ipics.132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/ipics.132","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, performative spaces and venues of artistic creativity are governed by sets of conventions which impact the creative process. In this article, we discuss the experiences of four different creatives, operating in four different creative spaces. A poet and football player, a theatre producer and script writer, a gallery curator, and a ballet dancer have all shared their experiences of how traditionally white and heteronormative discourses regulate their respective creative spaces, the ways they conform to or transgress these norms, and the ways their interactions with their chosen creative spaces affect their creativity. These creatives have identities which are somehow ‘marked’, somehow ‘different’ from the ‘norms’ Wales and South-West England. Whether members of the LGBTQ+ community, migrants to Wales from European and Caribbean countries, or being a different race to many around them, the creatives all have complicated interactions with the norms of their creative spaces within Wales and South-West England. These creative’s identities often clash with an entrenched lack of diversity and the broader expectations of British society. Despite, or perhaps, because of, these conflicts and tensions, each of the creatives discussed here found immense joy in the relationship between their identity/ies and their creative spaces and discovered how their own identity/ies are a central driving force for their creativity. Regardless of the differences of their mediums, each creative interviewed sought to centre their identity, to help them create art which can challenge dominant white and heteronormative discourses in wider British society.","PeriodicalId":429920,"journal":{"name":"Intersectional Perspectives: Identity, Culture, and Society","volume":"229 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141834357","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":"Spectrality and the Plural Body: A Comparative Study of the Works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Korakrit Arunanondchai","authors":"Yana Naidenov","doi":"10.18573/ipics.124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/ipics.124","url":null,"abstract":"This article surveys the role of the spectral body as a device of transgression, multiplicity and entanglement, through a comparative study of the film Uncle Boonmee Who Recalls His Past Lives (2010), by the contemporary artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and short film installation by contemporary artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, titled No History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 5 (2018) at Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, co-produced with Alex Gjovic and boychild. The body enacts a spectral, pluralistic device in the narrative strategies devised by the authors, traversing physical and spiritual dimensions in diegetic and extra-diegetic spaces, entangling subjects, territories, esoteric and spiritual traditions, postcolonial histories, and sociological dimensions.","PeriodicalId":429920,"journal":{"name":"Intersectional Perspectives: Identity, Culture, and Society","volume":"45 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141121941","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":"Reaffirming the Queer Traumatized Self through Home: An Analysis of the Potential of Traumascapes in John Elizabeth Stintzi’s Vanishing Monuments (2021). \u0000 ","authors":"Navalón-Guzmán, Corpus Navalón-Guzmán","doi":"10.18573/ipics.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18573/ipics.123","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines John Elizabeth Stintzi’s novel Vanishing Monuments (2021) applying the views of trauma, queer theory, and the potential discussions around the notion of place. The main issue in Vanishing Monuments is how returning home implies grappling with a non-linear account of haunted memories related to identity and trauma. Drawing on Maria Tumarkin’s concept of traumascapes and connecting it to Cvetkovich’s notion of “queer trauma,” this article aims at disclosing the potentialities that physical spaces can have for the traumatized queer subject. Firstly, this paper’s analysis will draw a connection between trauma and place to examine the function that the protagonist’s house has in the enactment of their trauma. Secondly, I will explore how the main character’s trauma is embodied in the narrative through a link between the concept of traumascapes and Ann Cvetkovich’s notion of queer trauma. This article concludes by evaluating the role that traumascapes might have for the queer subject to productively respond to trauma outside pathological boundaries.","PeriodicalId":429920,"journal":{"name":"Intersectional Perspectives: Identity, Culture, and Society","volume":"24 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140699478","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}