Off the wall Marshall, Catherine
Irish arts review (2002),
07/2022, Volume:
39, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
An interview with artist Marie Hanlon is presented. Among other things, Hanlon talks about her abstract painting, her recent show 'Water - More or Less', and the scale and space in her largest work ...to date, When Water Becomes Explosive.
Portraits of an activist Cappock, Margarita; Baker, Hannah
Irish arts review (2002),
07/2022, Volume:
39, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Cappock and Baker review works from the oeuvre of artist Sarah Cecilia Harrison. Harrison's early painting Prodigal Son as Swineherd is an example of a draped nude, which Harrison represents as a ...biblical narrative. Female Nude is another example of Harrison's skilled depiction of the figure. After Harrison graduated from the Slade, she continued to use a technique based on a meticulous and exacting contour in all creative media she undertook. In order to cultivate this technique, Harrison looked to the Old Master Hans Holbein the Younger. Her infrequent use of her painting to illustrate social injustice may be reflective of a tendency, on her part, to compartmentalize the diverse causes to which she was committed. Harrison also painted a great many portraits of her family members throughout her lifetime. In 1926, she extended this theme with a posthumous portrait of her great-granduncle, United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken, who was executed for his cause.
The traveling art exhibit Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World (2017–2018) demonstrated three powerful art world tendencies: the use of fraud as an artistic register, the assertion of the artist ...as authority, and the decontextualization of the arts as an object-centered analysis. These three approaches are congruent with capitalism and the private market, while simultaneously negating Indigenous values of community-based knowledges that operate largely outside the commercial sphere. An analysis of these competing art world values reveals the complicity of public museums with private gain and not education, their stated mission. Ethnic fraud demonstrates how art institutions and their staff employ “selective worth” as a means to cloak the arbitrary exertion of power and simultaneous rejection of Indigenous studies as academic discipline built on the value of tribal sovereignty. Serving as a backdrop for these conversations are a discussion of the history of Native approaches to museology from the early tribal museum era forward and an examination of current “reformist” and “radical” approaches to theorizing Native arts.
POSTLUDES Armand, Louis
Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities,
09/2017, Volume:
22, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
An examination of how the Accelerationist imagination has failed in its deviation from Nick Land's radical metaphorics of an Artaudian and Bataille-esque signifying "economy without reserve" to a ...neo-Sovietised bureaucratic plan for the post-Anthropocene, per Benjamin Noys et al. Given a positivistic guise, futurology of the latter kind almost always masks a return of apocalyptic humanism. The fantasy of a species unified in solidarity, in full view of its techno-evolutionary obsolescence, seeks to magically transform the history of alienation into some transcendental "means" of global post-production: but what this amounts to in fact is the phantasmatic extension of the Situationist spectacle into a "collective" dream of living on beyond a "global" extinction event which, in reality, will have been nothing but that of an ideology.
For people living with dementia and their care partners, a decline in the ability to effectively communicate can cause significant distress. However, in recent decades, the arts have emerged as an ...effective care modality in fostering communication and expression for those with declining verbal skills and memory loss. Opening Minds through Art (OMA) is a national initiative that empowers people living with dementia by facilitating creative expression and social engagement through art-making in partnership with trained college student volunteers. Research has demonstrated that participation in the program benefits quality of life for those living with dementia and also improves student attitudes toward dementia. To date, however, no research has involved primary care partners. We implemented an OMA program at three residential care homes in State College, Pennsylvania, with residents cocreating artwork alongside primary care partners (i.e., a family member or primary medical personnel) over the course of four art-making sessions. We evaluated the effects of participation on quality of life and care partner burnout through pre–post use of “emotional thermometers” (measuring levels of distress, anxiety, depression, anger, and perceived quality of life), the National Institute of Health NIH emotional support scale, and the NIH caregiver assessment (care partner burnout). For people living with dementia, participation significantly increased perceived quality of life while decreasing distress, anxiety, depression, and anger (p < .01; n = 12) after each class; however, the intervention did not significantly impact perceived emotional support. For care partners, participation significantly lowered post-intervention measures of burnout and self-rated stress (p < .01; n = 9). This preliminary study suggests that a structured art-based activity appears to positively impact acute mood for patients and, importantly, decrease care partner burnout. Future research can bring more robust methods to bear in determining how to use OMA and other arts interventions to optimize social support for people living with dementia and their care partners.
By embracing a perspective grounded in the Theory of Reasoned Action, this paper investigates the mechanisms through which team climate affects individual improvisation. By relying on data from 134 ...individuals belonging to 25 artistic collectives, our paper shows that team innovative climate impacts individual improvisation by triggering individual proactive attitude and risk aversion attitude. Because our research spans across different levels of analysis, we developed a multilevel model for analyzing our hypotheses. Our study complements the results of previous research by asserting that improvisation is not an inherently individual phenomenon; rather, improvisation is also affected by the characteristics of the team in which individuals are embedded.
