Rêver ou penser l’Anthropocène ? Usages de la ruine dans la non-fiction de l’extrême contemporain by Marine Aubry-Morici

“…This “catachronism” (Srinivas Aravamudan, 2013) chosen by some contemporary artists and writers prevents us from understanding global warming, because it aestheticizes the Anthropocene as a mesmerizing post-apocalyptic time. …”
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RACIONALIDADES NO FAZER ARTÍSTICO: ESTUDANDO A PERSPECTIVA DE UM GRUPO DE TEATRO by Mariana Mayumi Pereira de Souza, Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri

“…This paper aims at discussing which rationality types may orient contemporary artistic practice. This objective emerged from a researchmade in Grupo Galpão, a twenty-eight years old theatre group from Belo Horizonte. …”
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Sugar time: reactivating memories of Scottish empire through contemporary art and performance by Bond, E

“…Working in the interval between commemoration and ruination, it shows how Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014) has informed how contemporary artists and performers in Scotland engage with sugar histories in their practice. …”

الرعاية والخدمات الاجتماعية في عصر النبوة ودور المرأة المسلمة فيها = Al-re’ayah wa-al-khadamat al-ijtima'iyyah fi asr al-nubuwah wa daur al-mar'ah al-muslimah... by Jassim, Layeth Suud

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Visual and verbal elements in the Nuit Blanche ( the White Night) (2002-2010) by Diana Mesa R.

“…This initiative takes place in October in many French places -here, Paris- in order to bring together contemporary artistic interventions which may question the urban space through artistic proposals carried out all the night through, to finish at dawn. …”
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Vanitas Reloaded: a Remote Tableau Composition from the Corona “Home Wunderkammer” by Susanne Junker

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Transfigurations of the Commonplace: Hirst’s Tumbler, Joyce’s Tap by Judith Woolf

“…It is not surprising, then, that contemporary artists share a preoccupation with finding both mortality and transcendence in what John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester called “the lumber of the world.” …”
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‘A work of art does not contain the least bit of information’: Deleuze and Guattari and Contemporary Art by Stephen Zepke

“…What would this be in the case of contemporary artistic practice? Amongst various possibilities this paper will explore the sublime ramifications of a Deleuzean image of ‘thought’, and its position as the ‘immanent outside’ of art’s post-conceptual trajectory.…”
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The Peculiar Poetic Experience in the Ancient Algerian Prophetic Pastiche (Aesthetics of Intertextuality in Attari Pastiche) by Jamila Ramdane Maatouk

“…The originality of the research: The groundwork research attempts to illustrate the contemporary artistic methods that prove the creativity of the pastich poetic text. …”
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Female Photographic Representations in the Post-Ottoman Landscape: the Female Body as a Battleground of Imperialisms and Nationalisms by Aikaterini Gegisian

“…The paper explores how contemporary artistic practices employing archival methods can intervene in colonial, nationalist and gendered photographic representations. …”
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Public Spheres, Counterpublics’ Fears and Syncopolitics by Fred Dalmasso

“…This leads to an attempt to consider online hostile lay critics as a potentially legitimate public to address the dilemma faced by contemporary artists when engaging with society in an all-inclusive manner. …”
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« Cosas raras » : el juego del hermetismo en la ficción de César Aira  by Graciela Villanueva

“…Whereas hermeticism was a path towards the revelation of truth for Gnostics of the late second century, it is for Aira –and for many contemporary artists- a game that accounts for man’s experience in the world today, a game  between nonsense and some meaning that is always provisional, always precarious. …”
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FEMINISM IN CONTEMPORARY ART – PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION by RUSU, MARINELA

“…We can say that feminist ideas in art have managed to change the profile of contemporary artistic creation.…”
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Artistic Responses to Crossing the Kālā Pānī by Grace Aneiza Ali

“…This curatorial essay explores the work of three key contemporary artists of Guyanese heritage—Maya Mackrandilal, Michael Lam, and Suchitra Mattai—who underscore St. …”
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Wounded Beauty: Aesthetic-Theological Motifs in the Work of Alberto Burri and Anselm Kiefer by Isabella Guanzini

“…In order to better understand this aesthetic religious programme in all its ambivalences and polarizations, reference will be made to two emblematic contemporary artists, Alberto Burri and Anselm Kiefer. Their aesthetic programme revolves around the memory of the suffering and wounds of history and in seeking to understand these develops a compassionate perspective on them. …”
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Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe’s “Aphasia Poetry Club” and the Discourse of Disability in Contemporary Art by Leslie Cozzi

“…Tribe’s “The Aphasia Poetry Club” embodies a shift in contemporary artistic discourse around concepts of physical and cognitive disability. …”
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The Prince, the Noblemen and the Painter: Collectionso Works of Art in Copenhagen Between 1800 and 1848 by Charlotte Christensen

“…Major collectors of the Age were Prince Christian Frederik (later King Christian VIII of Denmark), who mainly acquired paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists, and the portrait painter Christian Albrecht Jensen, whose preference was to buy and sell the works of Old Masters. …”
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La experiencia estética de lo sublime en la danza butoh en comunicación con la naturaleza salvaje by Laura Maillo

“…Second, we will review and update this category by applying it to a contemporary artistic context: butoh dance. We will be guided by three ideas to establish the relationship between the sublime and butoh: absolute, dissolution and death. …”
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Deterritorialized Images: Future Visions, Past Memories by Elena Marcheschi

“…The essay describes the work of some contemporary artists (Mittelstäd, Vogel, Klasmer), where the choice of a notably inter-media representation condenses the spirit of the history of photography and moving images, in a parabola that originates in pre-cinema to reach electronic experimentation and go towards the all-comprehensive logic of the metamedium-passeur. …”
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Furniture and Function. Donald Judd vs Muller Van Severen about designing furniture by Ingrid Moortgat, Fátima Pombo

“…The aim of this text is, then, to expand the discussion from arguments based upon the voice of three contemporary artists that designed furniture and art: Donald Judd (1928-1994), Fien Muller (°1978) and Hannes Van Severen (°1979) who founded the studio Muller Van Severen. …”
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