Overview
- Fills a significant gap in the literature by bringing together images, theatre scripts, reflections on performances, artistic practices or music production alongside academic texts that consider both how art-making is shaped by these approaches to spatial enquiry, and how geographic research has been influenced by artistic practice
- Provides a clear and concise overview of the principles of non-representational theory for researchers and practitioners in the creative arts
- The first book to jointly examine the impact of non-representational theory on contemporary art practice and geographical research methods
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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.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Situated Practices in Art, Craft and Design
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Artistic Engagements with Geography
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Geographers Exploring Artistic Practice
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Reviews
“Weaving together tales by scholars and practitioners, Non-representational Theory and Creative Arts is an important and timely contribution to the ongoing dialogue between cultural geography and creative art practice. Ambitious in scope, varied in style and innovative in format, the collection takes the reader on a compelling journey through stitches and studios, trees and art installations, water streams and ruins, geothermal vapours and musical tunes. It pushes for new tropes and vocabularies to talk about familiar and unfamiliar atmospheres, places, gestures, and all that stirs and eludes the human senses and imagination.” (Veronica Della Dora, Royal Holloway University of London)
“Over the past fifteen years, non-representational theories have become central to the social sciences and humanities, inaugurating new ways of conceptualising and approaching the world. Featuring a multidisciplinary range of contributors who have been at the forefront of non-representational styles of thought and research, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts is unique for its sustained and experimental engagement with the practices, styles and techniques of research that non-representational theories invite and offer. As such, it will become an invaluable resource for researchers hoping to learn new ways of encountering and presenting the world.” (Ben Anderson, Durham University, UK)
“How might we envision a geography in the making, in the moving? With thought-provoking contributions that activate the affective force of the geologic, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts explores the thresholds that move geography beyond representation toward its creative force. Entering the space of encounter, this book tests the limits of writing in a field that has always explored what lurks at the interstice of line and fold.” (Erin Manning, Concordia University, Montréal)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Candice Boyd is Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne with a PhD in psychology and a joint PhD in cultural geography and the creative arts. She is a practice-based researcher with interests in the geographies of mental health and wellbeing, rural youth, contemporary museums, and sonic geographies.
Dr Christian Edwardes is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Illustration at the Arts University Bournemouth. His recent research is focused on studio geographies and the geoaesthetics of art production, which also form a central strand of his artistic practice. His works have been exhibited in the UK and Australia.
Dr Christian Edwardes is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Illustration at the Arts University Bournemouth. His recent research is focused on studio geographies and the geoaesthetics of art production, which also form a central strand of his artistic practice. His works have been exhibited in the UK and Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts
Editors: Candice P. Boyd, Christian Edwardes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5749-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5748-0Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-5749-7Published: 15 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 371
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Performing Arts, Arts