New Cartographies, Nomadic Methodologies

This volume embraces the critical turn of new materialism in order to address how creative and social practices allow for the definition of alternative subject positions and to examine how power relations operate at an embodied, relatable level: it proposes to think global but act local.

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Maria Parsons is a senior lecturer in the Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. Her research interests are in gender, the body, contemporary critical theory and popular and digital cultures. She has published in the fields of gothic and horror and queer studies. Anne Goarzin is Professor of Irish literature and culture at the University of Rennes 2 France and a member of the research group CRBC (EA 4451). Her research focuses on Irish literature and the visual arts and on contemporary critical theory. She is the chair of the French Society for Irish Studies (SOFEIR) and of GIS E.I.R.E, a research network for Irish studies.

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Introduction: New Materialist Encounters Anne Goarzin and Maria Parsons

Part I Artistic Intra-actions

Force of Nature: Earth Stories (a Conversation with Lisa FitzGerald) Siobhán McDonald

Diffractive Practice: Supercollisions in Art and Science (a Conversation with Maria Parsons) Sinéad McDonald

CONTAGION Rachel Gallagher, Jack Hogan and Moira Tierney

The Plurality of Existence in the Infinite Expanse of Space and Time Clodagh Emoe

Part II Bodies, Performance, Memory

'Dirty matter': New Material Terrains in Irish Poetry Anne Karhio

Material Bodies: Three Performance-Based Interventions in the Irish Landscape Lisa FitzGerald

'Choreographies of becoming' in Mia Gallagher's Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland (2016) Fiona McCann

Part III Shared Places and Diffracted Voices

Fractured Liminality in Kabosh's Green and Blue and Lives in Translation Eva Urban-Devereux

Narrative 4 Story Exchanges: Fostering Empathy Marie Mianowski

Performing Jazz and Sharing Creative Spaces: An Interview with David Lyttle Fabrice Mourlon