scholarly journals Los Qualia y la Experiencia de la Consciencia en el Arte

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Belén León-Río

Our life would be surrounded by a universal property called qualia that would constitute the everyday qualities of existence that would encompass among other things our sensations, perceptions, feelings and intuitions so that we would experience the world in the form of qualia such as light, sound, color, the shape or texture. These qualities would give cohesion to our senses and would have an important role in the art world to be closely linked to our subjective world.In this article we will see how our consciousness would create reality manifesting itself in art through various perceptual experiences related to a qualia network where introspection, intuition, imagination, and creativity would also enter into a more subtle plane. The qualia would help the artist to project himself into everything he would experience, not only in the act of observing but also in the same artistic processes where emotions would be translated into symbols that would enhance our evolution, as the next leap we would make would have to do with our consciousness.

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Trish McTighe

In an era of public consciousness about gendered inequalities in the world of work, as well as recent revelations of sexual harassment and abuse in theatre and film production, Beckett's Catastrophe (1982) bears striking resonances. This article will suggest that, through the figure of its Assistant, the play stages the gendered nature of the labour of making art, and, in her actions, shows the kind of complicit disgust familiar to many who work in the entertainment industry, especially women. In unpacking this idea, I conceptualise the distinction between the everyday and ‘the event’, as in, between modes of quotidian labour and the attention-grabbing moment of art, between the invisible foundations of representation and the spectacle of that representation. It is my thesis that this play stages exactly this tension and that deploying a discourse of maintenance art allows the play to be read in the context of the labour of theatre-making. Highlighting the Assistant's labour becomes a way of making visible the structures of authority that are invested in maintaining gender boundaries and showing how art is too often complicit in the maintenance of social hierarchies.


Author(s):  
Sharon Hecker

Medardo Rosso (1858–1928) is one of the most original and influential figures in the history of modern art, and this book is the first historically substantiated critical account of his life and work. An innovative sculptor, photographer, and draftsman, Rosso was vital in paving the way for the transition from the academic forms of sculpture that persisted in the nineteenth century to the development of new and experimental forms in the twentieth century. His antimonumental, antiheroic work reflected alienation in the modern experience yet showed deep feeling for interactions between self and other. Rosso's art was transnational: he refused allegiance to a single culture or artistic heritage and declared himself both a citizen of the world and a maker of art without national limits. This book develops a narrative that is an alternative to the dominant Franco-centered perspective on the origin of modern sculpture in which Rodin plays the role of lone heroic innovator. Offering an original way to comprehend Rosso, the book negotiates the competing cultural imperatives of nationalism and internationalism that shaped the European art world at the fin de siècle.


Author(s):  
Mariya Stoilova ◽  
Sonia Livingstone ◽  
Giovanna Mascheroni

Mobile devices play a growing role in the everyday lives of children around the world, prompting important questions about their effects on childhood experiences. Exploring the recent global trends in children’s use of smartphone devices, the authors examine the reconfiguring of children’s communicative practices and cultures of connectivity, documenting the opportunities and risks that smartphone technology affords. Throughout the chapter the authors challenge the notion of “digital childhoods,” drawing on the most reliable research on children and smartphones including findings from Global Kids Online, which suggest that digital divides intersect with existing social inequalities, exacerbating the barriers for less privileged children. This raises further questions about the long-term consequences for children’s development, rights, and future access to opportunities and resources.


Author(s):  
Carol Mei Barker

“In China, what makes an image true is that it is good for people to see it.” - Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1971 The Olympic Games gave the world an opportunity to read Beijing’s powerful image-text following thirty years of rapid transformation. David Harvey argues that this transformation has turned Beijing from “a closed backwater, to an open centre of capitalist dynamism.” However, in the creation of this image-text, another subtler and altogether very different image-text has been deliberately erased from the public gaze. This more concealed image-text offers a significant counter narrative on the city’s public image and criticises the simulacrum constructed for the 2008 Olympics, both implicitly and explicitly. It is the ‘everyday’ image-text of a disappearing city still in the process of being bulldozed to make way for the neoliberal world’s next megalopolis. It exists most prominently as a filmic image text; in film documentaries about a ‘real’ hidden Beijing just below the surface of the government sponsored ‘optical artefact.’ Film has thus become a key medium through which to understand and preserve a physical city on the verge of erasure.


2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

How do we identify and understand transformative agency in the quotidian that is not contained in formal, or even informal structures? This article investigates the ordinary agency of Palestinian inhabitants in the violent context of the divided city of Jerusalem. Through a close reading of three ethnographic moments I identify creative micropractices of negotiating the separation barrier that slices through the city. To conduct this analytical work I propose a conceptual grid of place, body and story through which the everyday can be grasped, accessed and understood. ‘Place’ encompasses the understanding that the everyday is always located and grounded in materiality; ‘body’ takes into account the embodied experience of subjects moving through this place; and ‘story’ refers to the narrative work conducted by human beings in order to make sense of our place in the world. I argue that people can engage in actions that function both as coping mechanisms (and may even support the upholding of status quo), and as moments of formulating and enacting agential projects with a more or less intentional transformative purpose. This insight is key to understanding the generative capacity of everyday agency and its importance for the macropolitics of peace and conflict.


Antiquity ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (290) ◽  
pp. 825-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë Crossland

The landscapes of the central highlands of Madagascar are inhabited by the spirits of the dead as well as by the living. The ancestors are a forceful presence in the everyday world, and the archaeology of the central highlands is intimately entwined with them. This is made manifest both in the on-the-ground experiences encountered during fieldwork, and in archaeological narratives, such as the one presented here. Tombs are a traditional focus of archaeological research, and those that dot the hills of the central highlands are part of a network of beliefs and practices which engage with the landscape as a whole and through which social identity is constructed and maintained. In the central highlands, and indeed elsewhere in Madagascar, there is an intimate relationship between peoples’ understandings of their social and physical location in the world and their understanding of their relationship to the dead.


Temida ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic ◽  
Marina Kovacevic-Lepojevic

In the last two decades stalking phenomenon is recognized and actualized in the world in professional, scientific circles, in media and the everyday talk. Recently, stalking is identified as specific and complex problem studied separately from domestic violence, workplace abuse, sexual harassment, threats, following, homicide, voyeurism and the other phenomenon to which stalking may or not be related. This paper is aimed to determine the notion of stalking and its relationship with similar phenomena, to review the research about the prevalence and nature of stalking, as well as to review the measures for its prevention, supporting victims and prosecution of offenders. Finally, the paper intend to contribute toward initiation of research and legal reforms regarding stalking victimisation in Serbia.


Author(s):  
Elena García-Oliveros ◽  
Gloria G. Durán Durán

RESUMENEste artículo ahonda en la perspectiva activista y transformadora de las artistas feministas que surgieron en la década de los años 70, indagando en su particular visión acerca de la capacidad del arte para crear nuevos modelos sociales integradores. A partir del caso de la artista norteamericana Suzanne Lacy, con quien las autoras han mantenido diversos encuentros de carácter público en el Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Matadero de Madrid, se pormenorizan las estrategias que el feminismo ha trabado en torno al arte público y se busca una redefinición de los ejes principales que sustentan el medio artístico actual: la autoría, la obra y su difusión y el valor final de la pieza. La investigación continúa con los estudios de caso de la artista ciberfeminista Shu Lea Cheang, la artista de origen paraguayo Faith Wilding y el colectivo madrileño Toxic Lesbian.PALABRAS CLAVESArte activista, arte colaborativo, arte procesual, ciberfeminismo, feminismo.CHUKAI KAWAITA CHUKANGAPA KAUSAITA WARMI KAWASPA RIMAPARLAMI TUKUIKUNAWA SUZANNE LACY SUGLLAPIKai iskai iacha warmikuna kawachirrei karrariskakuna kanchis wata Worramana tapuchingapa i Kawangapa imasan musu ruraikuna Kaiarrengapa, kai warmimSuzanne Lacy suti kawachii kallariska Sugrigcha ruraikuna katichingapa kasama kai kilkai suti Matadero de Madrid, kunaurra Maskanakui ima ministirri kaikama Chaiangapa, pim ruraska kawachiska y pasrlaska tukurregta kai Parlu kai iskai warmikuna shua Lea Cheang paraguaipi wiñaska Chasata kai warmi Faith Wilding Chasallata aidanakume. Toxio Lespian Madridmanda.IMA SUTI RIMAI SIMI: Arte Activista, Arte colaborativo, arte procesual, ciberfeminismo, feminismo.CHANGING ART TO CHANGE THE WORLD (A FEMINIST APPROACH) OPEN DIALOGUES WITH SUZANNE LACY ABSTRACTThis article delves into the activist and transformative perspective of feminist artists who emerged in the 70s, looking into their personal view about the ability of art to create new socially integrating models. Based on the case study of American artist Suzanne Lacy, with whom the authors have held several meetings of public character at the Center for Contem- porary Art Matadero of Madrid, the authors reveal the strategies that feminism has interwo- ven around public art, while at the same time looking for a redefinition of the main pillars that support the current art world: the author, the work and its dissemination, and the final value of the piece. The article concludes with case studies of cyberfeminist artist Shu Lea Cheang, the Paraguayan born artist Faith Wilding and Toxic Lesbian collective Madrid. t Autoretrato. Fotografía análoga. Fotografía: Camila Camacho. 2012KEYWORDSActivist art, collaborative art, process art, cyberfeminism, feminism.CHANGEZ L’ART POUR CHANGER LE MONDE (UNE PERSPECTIVE FÉMINISTE) UN DIALOGUE OUVERT AVEC SUZANNE LACY RÉSUMÉCet article se penche sur la perspective militante et transformatrice des artistes féministes qui ont émergé dans les années 70, en regardant dans leur point de vue personnel sur la capacité de l’art de créer de nouveaux modèles sociaux intégrateurs. À partir du cas de l’artiste américaine Suzanne Lacy, avec lesquels les auteurs ont tenu plusieurs réunions à caractère public au Centre d’Art Contemporain Matadero de Madrid, on détaille les stratégies que le féminisme a empêtré autour de l’art public, et on recherche une redéfinition des principaux piliers qui soutiennent le monde de l’art actuel : l’auteur, l’œuvre et sa diffusion et la valeur finale de la pièce. Les recherches se poursuivent avec des études de l’artiste cyberféministe Shu Lea Cheang, de l’artiste d’origine paraguayenne Faith Wilding et du collectif Toxic Lesbian de Madrid. MOTS-CLEFS Art activiste, art collaboratif, process art, cyberféminisme, féminisme.MUDAR A ARTE PARA MUDAR O MUNDO (UMA PERSPECTIVA FEMINISTA) DIÁLOGO ABERTO COM SUZANNE LACY RESUMOEste artigo aprofunda na perspectiva ativista e transformadora das artistas feministas que surgiram na década dos anos 70, questionado em sua particular visão sobre a capacidade da arte para criar novos modelos sociais integrados. A partir do caso da artista americana Suzanne Lacy, com quem as autoras têm mantido diversos encontros de caráter público no centro de Arte Contemporâneo “Matadero de Madrid”, se pormenoriza as estratégias que o feminismo há travado em torno à arte pública e se busca uma redefinição e o valor final da peça. Este artigo trata na perspectiva ativista e transformadora das artistas feministas que sur- giram na década dos anos 70, indagando em sua particular visão. PALAVRAS CHAVES Arte ativista, arte colaborativo, arte processual, ciber-feminismo, feminismo.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Van Oudtshoorn

Jesus� imperatives in the Sermon on the Mount continue to play a significant role in Christian ethical discussions. The tension between the radical demands of Jesus and the impossibility of living this out within the everyday world has been noted by many scholars. In this article, an eschatological-ontological model, based on the social construction of reality, is developed to show that this dialectic is not necessarily an embarrassment to the church but, instead, belongs to the essence of the church as the recipient of the Spirit of Christ and as called by him to exist now in terms of the coming new age that has already been realised in Christ. The absolute demands of Jesus� imperatives, it is argued, must relativise all other interpretations of reality whilst the world, in turn, relativises Jesus� own definition of what �is� and therefore also the injunctions to his disciples on how to live within this world. This process of radical relativisation provides a critical framework for Christian living. The church must expect, and do, the impossible within this world through her faith in Christ who recreates and redefines reality. The church�s ethical task, it is further argued, is to participate with the Spirit in the construction of signs of this new reality in Christ in this world through her actions marked by faith, hope and love.


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (57) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitória Mendes Alves ◽  
Israel Martins Araujo

Este ensaio visual trata do mundo da vida cotidiana de camponeses agroextrativistas no Pará, especificamente no baixo Tocantins, região das ilhas do município de Mocajuba. Segue o método da etnografia sensorial, discute a relação entre corpo, ambiente e formas de aprendizagem técnica com a virtuosidade dos indicadores socioambientais e argumenta que tais técnicas não são transmitidas, mas ensinadas e aprendidas por meio de um complexo engajamento sensorial com o ambiente.Palavras-chave: Camponeses agroextrativistas. Cotidiano. Trabalho. Etnografia Sensorial. Corpo. Ambiente.  Glueing fragments of the world of life: cuttings from the daily life of peasants from downtown Tocantins paraense Abstract: This visual essay deals with the respect of the everyday life world of agro-extractivist peasants in Pará, specifically in the lower Tocantins, region of the islands of the municipality of Mocajuba. It follows the method of sensory ethnography, discusses the relationship between body, environment and forms of technical learning with the virtuosity of socio-environmental indicators and argues that such techniques are not transmitted, but taught and learned through a complex sensory engagement with the environmentKeywords: Agroextractive peasants. Daily. Work. Sensory Ethnography. Body. Environment.


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