Carnal Knowledge
Towards a New Materialism through the Arts
Published on 30. November 2012
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-78076-265-4 (ISBN)
Description
Carnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived of as reality and materiality, described as the 'material turn'. It draws together established and emerging writers, whose research spans dance, music, film, fashion, design, photography, literature, painting and stereo-immersive VR, to demonstrate how art allows us to map the complex relations between nature and culture, between the body, language and knowledge. These writings are unique in the field because they represent the authors' commitment to a new materialism through the creative arts. The questions they address include: Does the material turn in the creative arts take a different turn from continental epistemology, philosophy and the humanities? How does the agency of matter, the material nature of artistic practice and the notion of 'truth to materials' affect what we understand as the 'new materialism'? In engaging with these questions the book offers perspectives on the emergence of this exciting fresh field of new materialism.
Reviews / Votes
Carnal Knowledge is a new materialist collection, not only because it brings together new materialist work, but also because it consistently and constantly reflects on what is new about new materialisms (it does not apply conceptual tools such as affect, but traverses bodies of thought). Iris van der Tuin, Women's Studies International ForumMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
12 integrated bw
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78076-265-4 (9781780762654)
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Persons
Estelle Barrett is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Kristeva Reframed:Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts (2011) and is co-editor, with Barbara Bolt, of Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (2007), both I.B.Tauris. Her reviews and articles have appeared in such publications as Text, Social Semiotics, Double Dialogues and the Journal of Visual Arts Practice. Barbara Bolt is Associate Professor in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. She is a practising artist and art theorist. Her publications include Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image (2004) and Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts (2011), both I.B.Tauris. She is also co-editor of Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (I.B.Tauris, 2007) with Estelle Barrett, and of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (2007) with Felicity Coleman, Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward.
Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Notes on Contributors Introduction Towards a "New Materialism" Through the Arts Barbara Bolt DISCOURSE, AFFECT AND MATERIAL INTERVENTIONS Chapter 1 From Double Navel to Particle-Sign: Towards the A-Signifying Work of Painting Katve-Kaisa Kontturi Chapter 2 Metaphors of the Mind: Art Forms as Modes of Thinking and Ways of Being Danielle Boutet Chapter 3 Effect: Initiating Heuristic life Jondi Keane Chapter 4 Materiality, Affect, and the Aesthetic Image Estelle Barrett THE MATTER OF FILM Chapter 5 The Matter of Film: Decasia and Lyrical Nitrate Nicholas Chare and Liz Watkins Chapter 6 Recovering the Hidden through Found-footage Films Dirk de Bruyn Chapter 7 Moments of Affection: Jayce Salloum's everything and nothing and the Thresholds of Testimonial Video Ilona Hongisto CARNAL INSISTENCE Chapter 8 In the Name of the Author: Towards a Materialist Understanding of Literary Authorship Kaisa Kurikka Chapter 9 The Sublime: Process and Mediation Liza McCosh Chapter 10 Fashion as an Embodied Artform Llewellyn Negrin MATERIALITY THE VIRTUAL AND THE REAL Chapter 11 Material-Character Animation: Experiments in Life-like Translucency Cathryn Vasseleu Chapter 12 Instrumental Vision Rose Woodcock Chapter 13 Real Immateriality in Australian Indigenous Art Brian Martin Chapter 14 The Primacy of Movement: Intermediality, Affect, and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen's Hunt Jussi Parikka and Milla Tiainen Notes References Index