Dissenting the master narrative.
By Maya Love.
Alice Procter guides Uncomfortable Art Tours through British museums as an act of dissent. She begins by describing an object, how it is displayed and how it might have arrived in a museum. Using visual analysis as a point of entry, she opens the door to discuss the museum as a colonial institute…
Material and Spatial Immersion: Embodiment Intensified, Dissolved, Transcended and Problematised
By Tamar Torrance McCambridge
‘Immersion’ is a term with equivocal meaning—a homonym, used often to describe qualities of illusion, interaction, involvement, absorption, and so on. However, while certainly manifold in its characterisations, consistently, the conceptualisation of immersion—as both a process and state of being—involves the dissolution, or transgression of conventional boundaries which separate oneself from the external world.
The Theatricality Of The Everyday: A Question Of Absorption In Contemporary Photography
By Annie Curtis
In the interest of portraying the utmost naturalism, immersion has long been employed by artists to suggest the unique quality of ‘being-in-the-world’ that defines our very existence. Indeed Heidegger explains his conception of ‘dasein,’ or human beings, as inseparable from the sphere in which they live, permanently ‘in pursuit’ of meaning rather than simply ‘being present’ as mere ‘entities’ or objects…
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