Returning to Another Black Darkness
This article foregrounds a specific, memorable reading of the photobook Another Black Darkness by Sakiko Nomura to unravel the different socio-political agencies of objects and environments that configure how we interpret and understand photobooks, as individual creative works, and as a medium in ge...
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| description | This article foregrounds a specific, memorable reading of the photobook Another Black Darkness by Sakiko Nomura to unravel the different socio-political agencies of objects and environments that configure how we interpret and understand photobooks, as individual creative works, and as a medium in general. It demonstrates a ‘methodology of encounter’ that revisits an autoethnographic response written in 2018 to critique the ways that materiality, place, positionality, coincidence and time configure certain experiential knowledges that are situated in time and place. Repeat readings of the book and the original text uncover deeper analysis of these entangled affects. Photobooks are produced in multiple, and can be found in many different environments, with different rules of engagement, so it is necessary to develop a critical understanding of the medium that can account for this plurality of encounter. Through focusing on performative, relational moments of meaning-making with photobooks, the article links substance with significance, or, “matter and mattering” (Barad), and shows distinct, experiential capabilities of the photobook as an artistic form. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-424d68fbcbb14453b498aa49dd4c78dc2023-12-24T00:15:46ZengCentre for Comparative StudiesCompendium2975-80252022-12-01210.51427/com.jcs.2022.0016Returning to Another Black DarknessBriony Anne Carlin0Newcastle UniversityThis article foregrounds a specific, memorable reading of the photobook Another Black Darkness by Sakiko Nomura to unravel the different socio-political agencies of objects and environments that configure how we interpret and understand photobooks, as individual creative works, and as a medium in general. It demonstrates a ‘methodology of encounter’ that revisits an autoethnographic response written in 2018 to critique the ways that materiality, place, positionality, coincidence and time configure certain experiential knowledges that are situated in time and place. Repeat readings of the book and the original text uncover deeper analysis of these entangled affects. Photobooks are produced in multiple, and can be found in many different environments, with different rules of engagement, so it is necessary to develop a critical understanding of the medium that can account for this plurality of encounter. Through focusing on performative, relational moments of meaning-making with photobooks, the article links substance with significance, or, “matter and mattering” (Barad), and shows distinct, experiential capabilities of the photobook as an artistic form.https://compendium.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/compendium/article/view/48New Materialismautoethnographyways of knowinglibrarySakiko Nomura |
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