Thinking with the Harrisons

Thinking with the Harrisons

Re-imagining the Arts in the Global Environment Crisis

Fremantle, Chris; Douglas, Anne

Leuven University Press

10/2024

248

Mole

9789462704268

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: SEEKING A DIFFERENT PLACE FOR THE ARTS IN SURVIVAL

CHAPTER 2: 'THINKING WITH' WHITEHEAD, STENGERS AND THE HARRISONS
The Bifurcation of Nature
Nature as emergent
Adventure and/as a 'leap of the imagination'
What is 'adventure' in the Harrisons' works?
Inhabiting the bifurcation of nature

CHAPTER 3: THE LAGOON CYCLE
The Poem as Visual Essay
Bifurcation of Nature: Collisions between East and West
Bifurcation of Nature: Exploitation
The Leap of the Imagination
Inventing a field
Adventure
Storytelling
In what sense is The Lagoon Cycle an event?
Conclusions

CHAPTER 4: ON IMPROVISATION
What is improvisation?
An instrument in skilled hands
A fine line between communicability and adventure, between certitude and risk
A predicament, not something freely chosen ...
Creating a 'more to life'
Generative metaphor
What does improvisation make matter?

CHAPTER 5: ON THE POETICS AND AESTHETICS OF SYSTEMS 109 Systems: A way of thinking
Artists and systems - Haacke and Ukeles
Burnham's Proposed 'Systems Aesthetics'
The Harrisons' use of 'systems'
Spoils Pile Reclamation
Reclamation for whose benefit?
Metaphor as organiser

CHAPTER 6: ON THE POLITICAL
Re-finding humanity: Arendt's context for writing on the political
Kant's construction of the political in aesthetics
What does it mean to develop politics based in judgement?
The Harrisons and their publics
The Art of Narrative resides in the Ability to condense the Action into an Exemplary Moment (Kristeva 2020, 17)
The Spectator is not Involved in the Act (Arendt 1992, 63)
Mortality, Communicability, Freedom
How does the political as outlined here work with codes of conduct and constitutional forms?
Otherwise the race of devils would destroy themselves (Arendt 1992, 18)
What to do?

CHAPTER 7: ARTISTS 'THINKING WITH' ONE ANOTHER
On questions that drive practice
Pedagogy: Curriculum Proposals
Ballengee, Bon, Goto-Collins and Collins, Sprinkle and Stephens, Wallen
A Wider Reimagining of the Role of the Arts

CONCLUSIONS
NOTES
TIMELINE
REFERENCES
INDEX
Art;Ecology;Artistic Research;Improvisation;Systems Aesthetics;Art and the Political