Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts

Description

This book presents distinct perspectives from both geographically-oriented creative practices and geographers working with arts-based processes. In doing so, it fills a significant gap in the already sizeable body of non-representational discourse by bringing together images and reflections on performances, art practice, theatre, dance, and sound production alongside theoretical contributions and examples of creative writing. It considers how contemporary art making is being shaped by spatial enquiry and how geographical research has been influenced by artistic practice. It provides a clear and concise overview of the principles of non-representational theory for researchers and practitioners in the creative arts and, across its four sections, demonstrates the potential for non-representational theory to bring cultural geography and contemporary art closer than ever before. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Creative Practice and the Non-Representational (Candice P. Boyd, Christian Edwardes)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Geo/Graphic Design (Alison Barnes)....Pages 19-32 Geologic Landscape: A Performance and a Wrecked Mobile Phone (Veronica Vickery)....Pages 33-51 Micro-Geographies of the Studio (Christian Edwardes)....Pages 53-68 Making, Knowing and Being Made: Hand-Stitching Beyond Representation (Emma Shercliff)....Pages 69-84 Queerly Feeling Art in Public: The Gay Liberation Mo(nu)ment (Martin Zebracki)....Pages 85-100 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Affecting Objects: The Minor Gesture Within a Performative, Artistic Research Enquiry (Sarah Bennett)....Pages 103-116 Circadian Rhythms, Sunsets, and Non-Representational Practices of Time-Lapse Photography (Kaya Barry)....Pages 117-131 “Call That Art? I Call It Bad Eyesight”: Seeing or Not Seeing in the Context of Responsive Art Practice (Annie Lovejoy)....Pages 133-151 Forward Back Together, and the Materialities of Taking Part (Simon Pope)....Pages 153-167 Where Does ‘Your’ Space End and the Next Begin? Non-Representational Geographies of Improvised Performance (Candice P. Boyd, with Yan Yang, Juana Beltrán, Clinton Green, Jordan White, Carmen Chan Schoenborn et al.)....Pages 169-180 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Making Theatre That Matters: Troubling Subtext, Motive and Intuition (Ruth Raynor)....Pages 183-193 Creativity, Labour and Captain Cook’s Cottage: From Great Ayton to Fitzroy Gardens (Tim Edensor)....Pages 195-209 Material Conditions in the Post-Human City (Andrew Gorman-Murray)....Pages 211-226 Attuning to the Geothermal Urban: Kinetics, Cinematics, and Digital Elementality (Matthew Shepherd)....Pages 227-242 Thresholds of Representation: Physical Disability in Dance and Perceptions of the Moving Body (Michelle Duffy, Paul Atkinson, Nichola Wood)....Pages 243-262 Interlude: Supervising (Harriet Hawkins, Rachel Hughes)....Pages 263-274 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Audio Recording as Performance (Michael Gallagher)....Pages 277-292 Psy(co)motion: Anti-production and Détournement in Affective Musical Cartographies (Tina Richardson)....Pages 293-310 Walk with Me (Jeffrey Hannam, Lawrence Harvey)....Pages 311-324 Imaginal Travel: An Expedition in Fine Art Practice in Search of the Loneliest Palm (Gayle Chong Kwan)....Pages 325-335 Fragments (Formerly Tales from the Asylum) (Thomas Jellis, Joe Gerlach)....Pages 337-350 On Edge: Writing Non-Representational Journeys (David Bissell)....Pages 351-358 Back Matter ....Pages 359-371