131 research outputs found
GUNHILD BORGGREEN and RUNE GADE, eds., Performing Archives/Archives of Performance
No full textPerforming Archives/Archives of Performance. GUNHILD BORGGREEN and RUNE GADE, eds. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013. 495 pp. ISBN 978-87-635-3750-6
Introduction:The Archive in Performance Studies
No full textEn introduktion til arkivteoriens relevans inden for Performance Studie
Cute and Cool in Contemporary Japanese Visual Arts
No full textUnder the headline of 'Japan Cool', popular culture from Japan has gained a significant role in the global market within the last decade. One of the concepts related to 'Japan Cool' is kawaii, meaning cute and sweet, both as a style and a lifestyle. Kawaii can be seen as visual trademarks in fashion, manga, animé, and many other parts of popular culture, as well as in visual arts by neo-pop artists such as Murakami Takashi and his associates. However, kawaii as a critical concept, has been flourishing in Japan since the 1980s, and has been the topic of sociological research that stresses the subversive and critical dimensions of the word. This article investigates how artworks can offer an ethnographic account of kawaii as a sign of ambiguity and thus signify important social currents in Japanese youth culture in the decade before 'soft power' became the agenda for official Japan
The Myth of the Mad Artist: Works and Writings by Kusama Yayoi
No full textKusama Yayoi has been active as an artist for more than 50 years, and is highly acclaimed both in her native Japan and in the United States, where she spent more than a decade of her career. A large corpus of critical reviews, catalogue texts, interviews and autobiographical writings by and about Kusama has been published over the years, and this paper investigates a specific topic in these texts concerning the discourse of madness. A persistent myth of Kusama as a'mad' artist emerged in the early and mid-1980s, but has influenced the interpretations of her whole oeuvre. Based on three texts written by Kusama, this paper shows that the artist herself did not describe her artistic processes in psychopatholocial terms at the early stages of her art production. I shall argue for more accurate interpretations of Kusama's art, based on the artist's own accounts as well as trends on the contemporary internatinoal art scene
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