SCA Research Working Papers
WORKING PAPERS is a collection of texts related to SCA academic's current research interests, including conference and symposium presentations, interviews, completed or in-progress research papers/findings, essays, and artist statements.
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Beyond the pale: psychotic art and the boundaries of genius
Colin Rhodes
Between 1930 and 1933, an exhibition of art by psychiatric patients toured nine German cities, mostly in art association spaces. It originated from the Heidelberg psychiatric hospital, whose large collection of psychotic art had already achieved fame outside of the psychiatric community through the publication of Hans Prinzhorn’s richly illustrated book, Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (Artistry of the Mentally Ill) in 1922. By revealing creative work produced by people institutionalized because of psychiatric illness and presenting it as art proper, the show aimed to remind the public of this group’s continued humanity in the face of psychological and physical suffering.
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Placeful interventions in spatial incommensurability
Margaret Roberts
The paper discusses models of site-specific art proposed by Miwon Kwon in the light of the significance of the devaluation of place drawn from Anthony Giddens' account of modernity. Abstract available on http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/aaanz/abstracts/margaret_roberts
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The status of place and the phenomenological model of the site.
The paper discusses alternatives to the models of site-specific art proposed by Miwon Kwon in' One Place After Another', and argues for the social and political significance of what is referred to as the phenomenological model of the site, in light of the threats to the inhabitability of physical space by climate change.
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