Animating Tangible Futures

Borrowing from Isabelle Stengers's calls to 'reclaim animism' in practices that inherent to Western modernity and not racially equated with the supposedly regressive modalities of primitive thought, this essay seeks to investigate what an ecologically inflected model of 'animated...

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Published in:Performance research 2019-09, Vol.24 (6), p.29
Main Author: Lavery, Carl
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Hassall, Lee
Islands
Motion pictures
Race
Spectatorship
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Summary:Borrowing from Isabelle Stengers's calls to 'reclaim animism' in practices that inherent to Western modernity and not racially equated with the supposedly regressive modalities of primitive thought, this essay seeks to investigate what an ecologically inflected model of 'animated' criticism might entail. It does so by engaging with Lee Hassall's film Return to Battleship Island, a work that focuses on the ruins of Hashima Island in Japan. The aim of the text is to highlight how artworks are able to produce an (in)tangible or virtual space where perception is exposed to the touch of the world and implicated in its becoming. A chain is set up, in other words, where the world impacts on the artist who, in turn, fashions a space - an artwork - whereby that impact is expressed and translated in and for a spectator.
ISSN:1352-8165
1469-9990
DOI:10.1080/13528165.2019.1686591