Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Creative Practice and the Non-Representational

   • Candice P. Boyd, Christian Edwardes

   Pages 1-15

3. Situated Practices in Art, Craft and Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Geo/Graphic Design

      • Alison Barnes

      Pages 19-32

   3. Geologic Landscape: A Performance and a Wrecked Mobile Phone

      • Veronica Vickery

      Pages 33-51

   4. Micro-Geographies of the Studio

      • Christian Edwardes

      Pages 53-68

   5. Making, Knowing and Being Made: Hand-Stitching Beyond Representation

      • Emma Shercliff

      Pages 69-84

   6. Queerly Feeling Art in Public: The Gay Liberation Mo(nu)ment

      • Martin Zebracki

      Pages 85-100

4. Artistic Engagements with Geography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Affecting Objects: The Minor Gesture Within a Performative, Artistic Research Enquiry

      • Sarah Bennett

      Pages 103-116

   3. Circadian Rhythms, Sunsets, and Non-Representational Practices of Time-Lapse Photography

      • Kaya Barry

      Pages 117-131

   4. “Call That Art? I Call It Bad Eyesight”: Seeing or Not Seeing in the Context of Responsive Art Practice

      • Annie Lovejoy

      Pages 133-151

   5. Forward Back Together, and the Materialities of Taking Part

      • Simon Pope

      Pages 153-167

   6. Where Does ‘Your’ Space End and the Next Begin? Non-Representational Geographies of Improvised Performance

      • Candice P. Boyd, with Yan Yang, Juana Beltrán, Clinton Green, Jordan White, Carmen Chan Schoenborn et al.

      Pages 169-180

5. Geographers Exploring Artistic Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Making Theatre That Matters: Troubling Subtext, Motive and Intuition

      • Ruth Raynor

      Pages 183-193

   3. Creativity, Labour and Captain Cook’s Cottage: From Great Ayton to Fitzroy Gardens

      • Tim Edensor

      Pages 195-209

   4. Material Conditions in the Post-Human City

      • Andrew Gorman-Murray

      Pages 211-226

   5. Attuning to the Geothermal Urban: Kinetics, Cinematics, and Digital Elementality

      • Matthew Shepherd

      Pages 227-242

   6. Thresholds of Representation: Physical Disability in Dance and Perceptions of the Moving Body

      • Michelle Duffy, Paul Atkinson, Nichola Wood

      Pages 243-262

This book presents distinct perspectives from both geographically-oriented creative practices and geographers working with arts-based processes.  In doing so, it fills a significant gap in the already sizeable body of non-representational discourse by bringing together images and reflections on performances, art practice, theatre, dance, and sound production alongside theoretical contributions and examples of creative writing.  It considers how contemporary art making is being shaped by spatial enquiry and how geographical research has been influenced by artistic practice.  It provides a clear and concise overview of the principles of non-representational theory for researchers and practitioners in the creative arts and, across its four sections, demonstrates the potential for non-representational theory to bring cultural geography and contemporary art closer than ever before.

• non-representational theory
• creative arts
• new materialisms
• situated art practice
• creative geographies
• cultural geography

“Weaving together tales by scholars and practitioners, Non-representational Theory and Creative Arts is an important and timely contribution to the ongoing dialogue between cultural geography and creative art practice. Ambitious in scope, varied in style and innovative in format, the collection takes the reader on a compelling journey through stitches and studios, trees and art installations, water streams and ruins, geothermal vapours and musical tunes. It pushes for new tropes and vocabularies to talk about familiar and unfamiliar atmospheres, places, gestures, and all that stirs and eludes the human senses and imagination.” (Veronica Della Dora, Royal Holloway University of London)

“Over the past fifteen years, non-representational theories have become central to the social sciences and humanities, inaugurating new ways of conceptualising and approaching the world. Featuring a multidisciplinary range of contributors who have been at the forefront of non-representational styles of thought and research, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts is unique for its sustained and experimental engagement with the practices, styles and techniques of research that non-representational theories invite and offer. As such, it will become an invaluable resource for researchers hoping to learn new ways of encountering and presenting the world.” (Ben Anderson, Durham University, UK)

“How might we envision a geography in the making, in the moving? With thought-provoking contributions that activate the affective force of the geologic, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts explores the thresholds that move geography beyond representation toward its creative force. Entering the space of encounter, this book tests the limits of writing in a field that has always explored what lurks at the interstice of line and fold.” (Erin Manning, Concordia University, Montréal)

• School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

  Candice P. Boyd

• Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, UK

  Christian Edwardes

Dr Candice Boyd is Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne with a PhD in psychology and a joint PhD in cultural geography and the creative arts. She is a practice-based researcher with interests in the geographies of mental health and wellbeing, rural youth, contemporary museums, and sonic geographies.

Dr Christian Edwardes is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Illustration at the Arts University Bournemouth. His recent research is focused on studio geographies and the geoaesthetics of art production, which also form a central strand of his artistic practice. His works have been exhibited in the UK and Australia.

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