Creative Crisis Research Articles

Wartime living of Salomėja Nėris. Lithuanian writers in Penza in 1941

The article uses recently discovered memoirs to portray the everyday life of writers evacuated to Penza, including Salomėja Nėris, whose character and biographical events related to the early war period are the focus of this study. The poet’s daily life, view of current events, as well as her literary activities and family affairs are reconstructed based on the reminiscences of her husband P. Veržbilauskas. The article details the locals’ perception of the phenomenon of evacuees arriving from various Soviet republics, quoting common people as well as party bureaucrats. It investigates the creative crisis faced by the evacuated intelligentsia and their dealing with this through consolidating their writers’ community. The relevance of the study stems from the fact that the testimonies by members of artistic intelligentsia have considerable cognitive potential for reconstruction of Penza’s everyday life culture during the Great Patriotic War. The article introduces a body of archived sources subjected to scholarly analysis for the first time.

ЗАВЕРШЕННАЯ НЕЗАВЕРШЁННОСТЬ ПОЭМЫ Н. В. ГОГОЛЯ «МЕРТВЫЕ ДУШИ» В «ГОГОЛИАНЕ» В. ОТРОШЕНКО

The article is devoted to the consideration of the mythologizing receptive model in relation to the fact of the creative biography of N. V. Gogol, the unfinished poem “Dead Souls”, in the cycle of essays by the modern writer V. Otroshenko “Gogoliana”. The author analyzes V. Otroshenko’s reliance on the complex of ideas of the philosopher L. Wittgenstein during the creation of the “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” based on the understanding and reconstruction of the causes of Gogol’s creative crisis. The ontological aspect of the interpretation of the relationship between Gogol’s creative consciousness and language, proposed by Otroshenko, is revealed.

И. С. Панов о предпосылках Казымского восстания

the article is devoted to the study of the Kazym rebellion in the creative work of I. S. Panov. This rebellion and the memory about it have a special place in the ethnic history and modern self-identification of the Ob Ugrians. In the last decade, the historiography of the rebellion, as well as the history of the Soviet North as a whole, has shown interest to the problem of their reflection in the public consciousness of the pre-war era, to the problem of images associated with the process of Sovietization, support for Soviet transformations and resistance to them. In line with this interest is this study of the ideas of the Soviet writer of the “second plan” I. S. Panov, whose creative and personal fate was largely determined by his work on the northern theme and the choice of a civil position in relation to the Soviet transformations and to the Kazym rebellion. Objective: to identify the author’s vision of the causes of the Kazym rebellion in the context of his ideas about Soviet transformations in the North of the pre-war era. 175 Bulletin of Ugric Studies. Vol. 14. № 1 (56). 2024. Research material: works by I. S. Panov (the stories “The War on Kazym. Notes of the Teacher” and “In the Far North”, the novel “The Urman”, short stories), and information of the funds of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals. Results and novelty of the research: using the example of the creative work of I. S. Panov, a supporter of Soviet modernization, the attitude of the writing community to the transformations in the Ob North in the 1930s is presented, combining support for socialist transformations with criticism of “individual disadvantages.” I. S. Panov, at the same time, the supporter of official policy and, in fact, its victim, in his works he combined the exaltation of innovations with silence about the facts of repression. The reasons for resistance to Soviet transformations were reduced to the evil will of enemies and the private mistakes of enthusiasts. Such an interpretation could not withstand a collision with reality, caused a creative crisis and the writer’s refusal to continue writing and literary activity. The heroic death in the war became a kind of atonement for lies in the name of the revolutionary socialist ideals of the reconstruction of the North. Panov’s tragic fate prompts us to turn to the study of the ideological attitudes typical of the pre-war period of Soviet writers who wrote about the North, whose voices made up a noticeable spectrum of the Soviet northern discourse as a whole. The article represents the first experience of understanding the causes of the Kazym tragedy in the works of I. S. Рanov.

The phenomenon of creative self-reflection and the problem of creating a biography of the writer

The article deals with the consideration of numerous cases of the writer's self-reflection when creating his scientific biography, about the dialogical links of biography with the epoch. The creative life of an artist can develop both thanks to and despite the influence of time, or even independently of it. Attention is paid to the problem of the gradual formation of the writer, the creative person's awareness of his own mission, his socio-cultural destiny. There is an important question about the incentive motives for choosing a profession, which include a fateful meeting with a great artist, and the burden of accumulated life impressions, and the experienced psychological trauma. The importance of the writer's diverse reception of someone else's aesthetic experience is great. The attitude to this experience can be expressed as a triad: influence, repulsion, mutual enrichment. The article discusses the dual role of the creative crisis (the annoying lack of a theme, the feeling of exhaustion and frustration, the impoverishment of creative means), which can be considered not only as a failure, but also as a rare chance of a probable productive renewal. The examples of such radical renewal in the creative life of V.P. Kataev, Yu.V. Trifonov, V.F. Tendryakov in the 1960-1970s are given. In addition, the article takes into account the phenomenon of the literary generation, belonging to which can become a school for the writer and help him to determine the vector of further development, the problems of creativity, the choice of artistic language, creative manner. The author talks about the special importance of cultural generation and the own individual creative code developed by the writer, which the writer will pass on to future literary generations.

‘We’ve Never Done This Before’

How do you build a community around a systemic problem such as food justice in a crisis via creative resilience methodologies? In what ways can the lessons learned in a creative crisis response help foster a more adaptive and responsive food system in preparing for future crises? ‘We’ve never done this before’ became the motto of Fawkner Commons when local residents, Jen Rae from Fair Share Fare and partner Sally Beattie co-founder of Fawkner Food Bowls mobilised local food producers, community members and partners to covert a community garden into an urban farm and a disused lawn bowling club into a community-led COVID-19-response food hub. Fawkner, the most food insecure and culturally diverse suburb in the City of Merri-bek1 (5kms north of the CBD of Melbourne, Australia) was heavily impacted by the 2020–21 COVID-19 Victorian state lockdowns, restrictions, case numbers and deaths. While most food relief organisations closed or were overwhelmed, Fawkner Commons became a central hub for food aggregation and provisioning, distributing over $116K boxes of no-cost/low-cost culturally relevant food boxes and over 2,400 prepared meals in 2020. This article is a critical reflection delving into some of the creative methodologies underpinning the success of Fawkner Commons and its legacy in the community. With a focus on social cohesion, accessibility and inclusion, it offers lessons to support the transformation of other hyperlocal food systems to become more adaptive, responsive and collaborative working with communities, artists, local government and food organisations.

The "Creativity Crisis" as a Mind in Crisis: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position.

Creativity is considered a global ability and crucial for ordinary-daily and special (e.g., science, aesthetic) activities. In this paper, from the position of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), we expand the debate about the creativity crisis and hypothesize that the noted crisis is only the tip of the iceberg represented by the crisis of the postmodern' incoherent mind, reflecting the crisis of self-realization as a leading activity in the individualistic epoch. By investigating creativity as an original functionality of the mind, two key titles are stressed. One is the halting of the activity system; two,it is the inconsistency between the objective meanings sphere and the subjective sense-making sphere. Both titles represent the epistemological rupture embedded in the mainstream culture and praxis rooted in the internal contradictions of individualism and post-modernism as worldview and practices, leading the mind to close its eyes on the contradictions which are the crucial source of grasping the internal content (abstraction and generalization) of the given experience, hence, a crucial source of creativity. Thus, it is considered that not only creativity is in crisis, but also the coherence of the mind as well, as an extreme result of the shattered postmodern existence.

Constitution of intellectual horizons for approaching the creative crisis of the 21st century from the logic of articulation and overdermination

It is proposed to generate an intellectual horizon for the approach of the creative crisis of the XXI century for the inclusion in public policies of higher education. From the ontological closure of education, analyzed with the logic of articulation and overdermination of the discourse instituted from the voice of the agent and with a mixed methodological approach, the information obtained with the UGT.2021 questionnaire applied to 280 p. was analyzed and interpreted. The findings indicate that the opportunities generated by the creative crisis increase the imagination, generation of situated proposals, promoting the achievement of objectives of a humanist, socio-political and creative nature that were absent in the past. Keywords: Intellectual, 21st century, articulation

Does a ‘Creativity Crisis’ Truly Exist Among Science Learners?

The study aimed to understand the change in science learners’ creative potential from the perspective of their teachers. It was explored through changes in a few important factors of creativity - Ideation, Intrinsic motivation, Self-efficacy, and grit. The study was conducted through a web-based descriptive survey using a questionnaire. The samples consisted of teachers in India who teach science at various degree colleges and universities. The analysis of the data revealed that the creative potential of science learners has improved over the years, thus reducing the creativity crisis, with the exception of grit, which has shown a downward trend.

Does a ‘Creativity Crisis’ Truly Exist Among Science Learners?

The study aimed to understand the change in science learners’ creative potential from the perspective of their teachers. It was explored through changes in a few important factors of creativity - Ideation, Intrinsic motivation, Self-efficacy, and grit. The study was conducted through a web-based descriptive survey using a questionnaire. The samples consisted of teachers in India who teach science at various degree colleges and universities. The analysis of the data revealed that the creative potential of science learners has improved over the years, thus reducing the creativity crisis, with the exception of grit, which has shown a downward trend.

The Tragic Pages of Armenian History in Alan Hovhaness’ Works

The American Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness’ “otherness” in the context of the 20th century musical discourse can be explained by his Armenian-Scottish origins, Armenian-Eastern musical identity and his unique interpretation of different artistic traditions of eastern musical cultures - Indian, Japanese, Korean etc., available in his works. The tragic pages of Armenian history are reflected in Alan Hovhaness’ immense heritage; this article particularly focuses on the “Exile” symphony (No. 1, 1939), dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. The “Exile” is a kind of catharsis in the long run of Hovhaness’ pursuit of national spirit and musical identity to achieve solution to his psychological and creative crisis. The symphony became a symbolic self-acknowledgement of the composer’s Armenian identity, and an offering in commemoration of the Genocide victims in the realm of the musical space of the composer’s individual perceptions.

Creativity in the Age of Information: An Essay on Gilles Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricist Philosophy

ABSTRACT In this paper, I explicate twentieth-century French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze’s paper, “What is the Creative Act?” as a response to the “crisis of creativity” in the Age of Information. I contend that for him, the creative act does not consist of circulating information, but of eliciting the experience of “defamiliarization”. This thesis will be developed over the course of five sections: first, on Deleuze’s lecture, “What is the Creative Act?”, second on the “act of communication”, third and fourth on, respectively, “space–time(s)” and the “Idea”, and fifth, on a synthesis of the paper’s overall account of the creative act, along with a discussion of its role in transcendental empiricism. I draw from “What is the Creative Act?”, texts from throughout Deleuze’s oeuvre as well as the secondary literature. This paper aims to contribute to ongoing discussions in Deleuze Studies and the Philosophy of Creativity.

Research Roundup: Thinking Outside the Square: Cultivating Adult and Youth Creativity

Although we have experienced great advances in scientific and technological knowledge over the decades, research suggests that the pace of innovation is slowing down. Creativity is “the process of having original ideas that have value,” yet a recent article surveying decades worth of data and patents reports that innovative papers and patents in science and technology are becoming less disruptive over time.Since 1990, children have experienced compelling losses in scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). In 2010, educational psychologist, Kyung Hee Kim coined the term “creativity crisis” to refer to this steady decline.Having a creative thought and following it through with action is what has enabled humans to evolve. Without creativity, we would not have vaccines to combat illnesses, we would not have flush toilets, and we would not have libraries with electronic check-out systems. Creativity gives us the ability to face new problems and the courage to envision and try different solutions until we find the right one.

ТРЭВЕЛ-ЖУРНАЛИСТИКА К.Д. БАЛЬМОНТА НА СТРАНИЦАХ ЖУРНАЛА "ВЕСЫ" (ОЧЕРК "В СТРАНАХ СОЛНЦА")

The article analyzes the travel journalism of K.D. Balmont. In 1905, the famous symbolist poet turned to travel journalism for the first time. The essay “In the Countries of the Sun” described his journey to Mexico, primarily Mexican antiquities. The essay was published in the magazine “Libra” (“Vesy”), which expressed the literary position of the symbolists. However, despite Balmont’s belonging to the symbolists, they practically ignored the essay and considered it a symptom of Balmont’s creative crisis.

A phenomenological analysis of Fellini's films to understand the effect of LSD therapy on his creativity

Since its discovery in 1943, LSD has been used by artists, scientists, and intellectuals, amongst others, to stimulate their creative insights. Federico Fellini, one of the most important film directors in the XX century, used LSD when it was still legal under the guidance of his psychoanalyst during a phase of personal and creative crisis. This article proposes a phenomenological analysis of how his filmmaking and his creativity was enhanced after using LSD in such controlled therapeutic settings, according to four main domains: (a) time, (b) space, (c) body and others and (d) perception of the self. In particular, time flows irregularly and is punctuated by disorienting flashbacks, colours become supernaturally brilliant and detached from objects, sounds pop up independently from any visible source, and human bodies become often deformed, grotesque and caricatural. The boundaries between dream- and reality-worlds also collapses. His films became so distinctive and original that an adjective was coined felliniesque.

Angela Schwank and the Clouds

Angela Schwank – author of the artist book CIRREN – explains her preoccupation with clouds. In conversation with Peter Tepe, the artist talks about the history of her cloud project, a change of artistic programme in a creative crisis, the nature of her cloud studies, the formation of the specific connection between art and science, the stages of artistic development, the cooperation with meteorologists and the ambitions related to her cloud photos and drawings in the book.

Iklan Sebagai Komunikasi Krisis Pandemi Covid-19 Dalam Promosi Pariwisata

Hotels and tourism industries have been affected by Covid-19 pandemic crisis in Indonesia since the end of March 2020. Hotel Santika and Amaris Hotels suffered that impact too, thus to overcome its crisis, they needed to apply a way of creative crisis communication using advertisement. How were the symbolization of crisis communication of Covid-19 pandemic on audio visual advertisements of Hotel Santika and Amaris Hotels? This research was held using Ferdinand de Saussure’s semiotics, applying creative visual analysis, and interview. The research unit of analysis were Hotel Santika and Amaris Hotels advertisements, and hotels customers as informants. The semiotics creative visual analysis showed those symbols of advertisements have described the health protocols. The interview results showed the hotels customers interpreted those advertisements could answer their anxiety, those became a persuasion for the public in new normal life, and those could provide them senses of secure, comfortable, and healthy at hotels.

Creative Crisis? Performing Artists in Vienna’s Live Music Scene in the Age of COVID-19

Cultural workers are affected more than many other working populations by the pandemic COVID-19. Especially, live music as an antidote to crisis highlights the benefits of performing art in times of isolation; a practice that risks normalizing the idea that musicians are performing for free. This article discusses the intersection of live music with social and cultural issues, focusing on Vienna’s popular music scene. I begin my inquiry with an insight into the area of live music research, based on the works of Philip Auslander and Simon Frith. Throughout the text, I turn a critical eye to the broad impacts of the pandemic on music-making, the ways in which the potentials of emerging communities are leading to changed forms of appreciation, and emphasize the “sense of community” (Auslander) by way of three case studies. Ultimately, I aim to shed light on the strategies through which musicians deal with the crisis.

Поэтика эксперимента: неоконченная повесть М. Горького «Сон»

The article raises the question of Gorky as the Creator of a new aesthetic reality. The author shows his desire to overcome the spiritual and creative crisis of the early 1920s, which arose as a result of the tragic events of the First world war and the Russian revolution, and to update his creative method by including elements of modernist art: symbolism, impressionism, and the avant-garde. As an example, the author analyzes Gorky’s little — known unfinished novel “The Dream” (1923), it is shown that the writer widely used the key principle of modernist art-estrangement in its poetics. With this technique, the writer managed to create a text in which dream and reality, reality and illusion were artfully mixed and almost indistinguishable. The technique of detachment also helped Gorky to penetrate deeply into the spiritual world of his heroine and show the depicted reality through the eyes of a naive teenage girl.

Educational Robotics and Robot Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.

There is a growing literature concerning robotics and creativity. Although some authors claim that robotics in classrooms may be a promising new tool to address the creativity crisis in school, we often face a lack of theoretical development of the concept of creativity and the mechanisms involved. In this article, we will first provide an overview of existing research using educational robotics to foster creativity. We show that in this line of work the exact mechanisms promoted by robotics activities are rarely discussed. We use a confluence model of creativity to account for the positive effect of designing and coding robots on students' creative output. We focus on the cognitive components of the process of constructing and programming robots within the context of existing models of creative cognition. We address as well the question of the role of meta-reasoning and emergent strategies in the creative process. Then, in the second part of the article, we discuss how the notion of creativity applies to robots themselves in terms of the creative processes that can be embodied in these artificial agents. Ultimately, we argue that considering how robots and humans deal with novelty and solve open-ended tasks could help us to understand better some aspects of the essence of creativity.

"Monumental Picture" – an attempt to resolve the creative crisis in a non-homogeneous group

The article and the research presented in it are an attempt to resolve the creative crisis observed in students of grades 4-7 of primary school. The author tries to reawaken creative activity and the joy of creation by involving all students of the above-mentioned classes in a group art project. The task is to paint an abstract "Monumental Picture" together. The article is a description of the author's own research carried out on a non-homogeneous group of students using the case study method.