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Blazing Century 1: Creative Interventions on the Margins of Two Worlds - Studio-Based Art and Connective Social Practice
Get PDFMy research explores and formulates creative interventions on the margins of two worlds: studio-based art and connective social practice. This thesis proceeded as a reflective commentary on this inquiry while engaging five experimental art projects, mainly carried out in Nigeria and South Africa. I have employed the dynamic model of practice-as-research as a conceptual framework that allows the evolving art-research process to draw on a range of theoretical/practical methodologies.
While most of my experimental projects are formulated on post-conceptual contemporary art practice, I have remained fixated on the theoretical and practical application of frameworks from social sculpture (Joseph BEUYS and Shelley SACKS), Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas BOURRIAUD), Connective Aesthetics (Suzi GABLIK), and environmentally sustainable and political-ecological (Bruno LATOUR). I have approached my experimental projects with critical praxis, allowing me to overlap existing theoretical frameworks with my artistic practice to produce new outcomes and knowledge.
In a working context like Nigeria and South Africa, art practice from the perspective of Fine Art or art-for-art’s sake is geared toward producing “commodified objects”. These forms are charged with visual aesthetic components. They depend highly on the existing socio-economic conditions and lack profound socio-ethical causes. My central question is: is it possible to develop alternative artistic models as forms of creative interventions between a traditional individual studio-based art practice and extended connective social practice?
As practice-based research, my work is exploratory and embedded in creative and experimental processes formulated to contribute new forms of knowledge to the field of art. My research’s critical locus evolves from a mediating point of interaction and critique between these two worlds. This allows me to create asymmetric relations between their margins and prompt new “relational encounters” that reproduce a series of “mediated objects.” In this investigation, I consider the concept of “mediated objects” as embodied agencies that hold visual-aesthetic and socio-ethical components. They address the critique outlined in studio-based art and social practice using converging interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and context-specific methodologies and approaches.
My goal in this research is to propose and encourage alternative models of artistic practice – characterised by structurally positioning the five experimental projects through performance action, sound/music, photography/film, and creative vision workshop as firm propositions. These inspired propositions have complex aesthetics and socio-political, cultural, and ecological components. They serve as a more potent alternative art practice in Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries on the African continent, where contemporary socially-engaged art practice is underdeveloped and, in some areas, sparingly practiced in recent years
The African Meta-Medical Science of Ukpuho Ukpong (Soul Transplantation): A Philosophical Critique
Get PDFThe human soul has been believed to be immaterial and immortal element which exclusively inheres in the human body. Ukpugho ukpong (soul transplant) is an ancient meta-medical science of the Annang and Ibibio people, which is hinged on the belief that the human soul is transcendent and it exclusively inheres in proxy animal; that the soul is mortal, and can be surgically transplanted in the likeness of somatic tissue transplant. This study aimed at carrying out a philosophical critique of this belief in order to determine its significance as a metaphysical concept. It also aimed at critically examining the philosophical as well as sociological discussions on the subject of ukpuho ukpong. The study was discussed on the framework of African concept of mind which holds that the soul has dual nature, namely – the Active Principle and the Quiescent Counterpart. The paper debunks the doctrines of metempsychosis and transmigration as alien to African metaphysics. The method of ordinary language analysis was employed to analyze the concepts ukpong and mbukpong. In conclusion, the paper made the following observations that: the soul is transcendent but perishable substance, the mind has dual nature, the soul does not transmigrate and the science of ukpuho ukpong is not a pseudo-metaphysical concept but was founded on African logic of dualistic mind. The paper notes that the science of ukpuho ukpong is bugged with a number of unresolved philosophical problems. Despite that the paper discovered that the science of ukpuho ukpong can contribute significantly to meta-medicine and sustainable environmental values
Determinants of industry herding in the US stock market
Get PDFThis article provides empirical evidence on the determinants of herding in the US using both market and industry level data. We examined herding based on market returns, volatility and trading volume, using the daily data from 1990 to 2020. The findings demonstrate that herding at the market level does not exist, however some herding becomes visible at the industry level. The results also demonstrate significant evidence of anti-herding behaviour at the market and industry level.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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