Locating the Self, Welcoming the Other

This volume addresses how spatialized identities, belongingness and hospitality are interrogated in British and Irish contemporary art (painting, installation, video, photography, new public art) at a time when economic and political crises tend to encourage individual or exclusive usages of space.

Autorentext

Valérie Morisson is a senior lecturer at the Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté (Dijon, France). She has studied Irish contemporary art and its relation with post-nationalist culture extensively and has published many academic texts on British contemporary art. Though firmly anchored in art history, her approach stresses the relevance of context in the understanding of visual culture and the arts and borrows from anthropology to shed light on the position of the artist as well as the role of art in society. Her publications focus on a wide range of subjects (feminist art, memory and the commemoration of history, the Northern-Irish situation, postcolonial art, lens-based art) and consistently emphasize field work and praxis in art as key vehicles for expression, analysis and critique.

Inhalt

Contents: Intimacy from the inside out Domesticity gone awry: Parodying gender Transitional objects: Collecting, recollecting, reconnecting Revisiting rurality Class-based perspectives: Occupying social and discursive spaces Stranded souls Toward utopia: Envisioning the future, restoring the commons Dialogical positionality.