1st Edition

Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies Peripheries in Parallax

Edited By Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta, Jonna Tolonen Copyright 2024
198 Pages 9 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 9 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 9 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists. The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial, conceptual, and theoretical hierarchies and biased assumptions of ‘peripheries’ are challenged.... Read more

Part I: Sites and Sentients

1. Performing with Trees as Shifting Attention

Annette Arlander

2. Nomadic Scenography and Fictional Space-Body

Liisa Ikonen

3. Urban Spaces between Norms and Dreams

Maiju Loukola

4. Spatial References of Home – Moving on the Periphery of Public Space

Denise Ziegler

Part II: Aesthetics and Practices

5. Photographic Parafictions (An Aside)

Harri Laakso

6. Formation of Artistic Identity – Applying Themes of Narrative Identity Development in Two Artists’ Life Stories

Mari Myllylä and Jonna Tolonen

7. Temporal Perspectives on Arctic Peripheries

Eimear Tynan

8. We, A Peripheral Time-Space-Body: Notes on Encounterinvestigation, Corpo-Reality, and the Gentleness of Stones

Christoph Solstreif-Pirker

Part III: Visual Culture Rearticulations

9. Something is Happening in and to the Margins: Black and Brown Cultural Interventions Changing a Multiple Northern Periphery

Leena-Maija Rossi

10. Touching Gestures – An Affective Reading of a Photograph of Asylum Seekers

Mari Mäkiranta and Eija Timonen

11. Can Artists and Lawyers See the Same Goal? Understanding the Law of Ecocide through Art, Articulations, and Creativity

Raila Knuuttila

Biography

Maiju Loukola is an artist-researcher and university lecturer at the Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Helsinki.

Mari Mäkiranta is a visual artist and associate professor at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, and a docent at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies.

Jonna Tolonen is an artist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design.