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January 01 2023 Table of Contents Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1537-9477 Print Issn: 1520-281X © 2023 Performing Arts Journal, Inc.2023Performing Arts Journal, Inc. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (2023) 45 (1 (133)): i–ii. https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_x_00653 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Table of Contents. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 2023; 45 (1 (133)): i–ii. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_x_00653 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsPAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art Search Advanced Search Remixing The Human Voice Mert Dilek Benjamin Gillespie The Big Puppet in the Big Apple Claudia Orenstein Winter Report from New York City Kate Brehm Politics, Art, and Bread and Puppet Theater John Bell Skye Strauss The Persians, by Aeschylus, performed by Bread and Puppet Theater, directed by Peter Schumann, Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival, Chicago, IL Paul Bedard Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a performance by Bread and Puppet Theater, directed by Peter Schumann, Theater for the New City, New York, NY Robin Frohardt Theatre of Image and Metaphor Kathleen Cioffi Antoine Wagner in conversation with Philip Cluff Dragonfly/Robin Laverne Wilson in conversation with Joy Brooke Fairfield Bess Rowen Seagull, a performance by Elevator Repair Service, directed by John Collins, NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY Janine DeFeo The Medium Is Not the Only Message, Suzanne Lacy exhibition, Queens Museum, Queens, NY Jacki Apple it's alive,... You do not currently have access to this content.

Имперская окраина. Опера на Дальнем Востоке в период между двух войн: 1906–1914 годы

The period between 1906–1914 in the history of the development of music theatre in the Far East is distinguished due to a change in the functioning conditions of one of its important branches — opera. Regional art history does not consider the issues of periodization of pre-revolutionary music theatre, which emphasizes the relevance and novelty of this work. An additional criterion for periodization was an immanent process in the field of regional music theatre. Based on a systematic approach, taking the opera as one of the genre subsystems, the author considers changes in its internal elements: the dynamics and characteristics of production activities and forms of organization of theatre business, repertoire trends, accompanying art journalism, the training of vocal personnel and the touring and concert practice of opera performers. Thus, the author concludes that during the specified period only touring activities of opera enterprises were practiced, which was connected with the economic and logistical difficulties of organizing opera seasons in remote territories. The most important event in the music and theatre life was the tour of the Russian Opera of M. Maksakov in 1913; amateur and united troupes were increasingly turning to the opera genre. There was a significant increase in the amount of Russian operas performed. The changes in the art-critical sphere were connected with the large-scale analytical articles, and the introduction of elements of enlightenment into the reviews. The opening of a vocal class and an opera studio at the music school of the local branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society diversified the concert activity and theatre playbill of the region, while the repertoire of guest vocalists acquainted the Far East with unknown items in the opera.

Editorial Special Issue on Governance: International Journal of Film and Media Arts

In 2017, the Rome Declaration signaled the EU pledge to work towards a ‘Union where young people receive the best education and training and can study and find jobs across the continent. In that same year the Commission set out the vision of the European Education Area (EEA) as a genuine common space for quality education and lifelong learning across borders for all. Further acknowledgment of the key role higher education plays in the future of Europe occurred with the publication of the “Council Resolution on a strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training towards the European Education Area and beyond (2021-2030)” in February 2021 (2021/C 66/01). In order to attain this European Education Area and the related European Space for Higher Education, many actions have since then been designed and implemented, of which one of the most important is the “European Strategy for Universities” that aims to support the higher education sector in adapting to changing conditions and strengthen cooperation across borders. One of the key initiatives of this European Strategy for Universities is the “European Universities” initiative. Since 2020, this initiative has been supporting 44 Alliances of European Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in which approximately 340 HEIs take part, in reaching higher levels of cooperation and integration.

Becoming Molecular as a Condition for Creating New Spaces of Freedom

This volume includes texts by authors who are explicitly inspired by the ecosophical pragmatics of Félix Guattari or who resonate with it. Published in a blend of English and Spanish, the thirteen articles were written by researchers, artists, art historians, philosophers, and schizoanalysts from Asia, America, and Europe. Their methods, ideas, and approaches highlight the ability of creative practice to map and engender complex, relational, singularized, transversal, and constitutive forms of life. Departing from bold analyses of capitalism’s mechanisms of subjection, their contributions describe how art is able to resist the repressive politics of dominant representations and mobilize processes of existential heterogenesis through molecular becomings. The origin of this publication is the IV International Symposium Mutant ecologies in contemporary art: machinic capitalism, molecular beings, and subsistence territories that took place online on November 25-26, 2020, which had as special guest the philosopher and art theorist Gerald Raunig. This special issue of the Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art builds on the project started with the book Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona) which investigated the conjunction of the ecological turn in contemporary art and Guattarian ecosophy to inquire about the role of art in light of the challenges posed by the environmental degradation and the socio-political crises of today. Thirty years after Guattari’s death and the publication of Chaosmosis (1992), this collection of texts testifies that Guattari’s clinical and critical analyses continue to infuse artistic, ecological, and political practice with a revolutionary potential.

Editorial - Audiovisual and Creative Industries - Present and Future

This International Journal of Film and Media Arts’ (IJFMA) issue is built upon a selection of papers that were presented at the 8th edition of the International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers/ Congresso Internacional de Investigadores de Audiovisual (CIIA), which took place and was organized by Lusofona University, from June 23 to 25, 2021. In this edition, the theme chosen was “Audiovisual and Creative Industries – Present and Future”, thus recognizing the importance of reflecting and discussing the challenges that the audiovisual media were facing in the sector within the broader context of the creative industries. This event was attended by more than two hundred researchers, mainly from Spain and Portugal, but also from countries such as Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, China, Russia, Israel, Slovenia and Italy. The standards of this selection complied with all academic criteria, namely double-blind peer-review system.

Theoretical Concepts of Film Studies in Cinema Art Journal in the First Post-Soviet Years: 1992–2000

Theoretical Concepts of Film Studies in Cinema Art Journal in the First Post-Soviet Years: 1992–2000

Theoretical Concepts of Film Studies in the Cinema Art Journal During the Perestroika Era: 1986−1991

Theoretical Concepts of Film Studies in the Cinema Art Journal During the Perestroika Era: 1986−1991

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Journal Article Abstracts Get access Oxford Art Journal, kcac009, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcac009 Published: 21 September 2022 Article history Received: 23 August 2022 Corrected and typeset: 21 September 2022 Published: 21 September 2022

Visions for Future Cities

Expanding Horizons for new Visions & Perceptions about future cities have always formed our prime concerns and ultimate intentions. This coincides with the global technological Innovations that create immense transformation in the way cities and communities organize and develop their environments… Launching our second scientificassembly, our aim is to mingle all levels of city designing concepts with the continuous upcoming technological ideas & themes, to accomplish environmental efficiency and prosperity… Thus, the conference incorporates a wide range of themes concerning Architecture design, Sustainability, Green Infrastructure, Socio-economics, Environmental engineering, BIM and several other themes acquiring knowledge, innovations and environmental technologies. The conference is jointly organized by Cairo Higher Institute (CHI) and ARCH space, in collaboration with a group of honorable international experts enriching the research community in fields of environmental,urban design and city planning…Supported by the Journal of Architecture,Arts and Humanistic Science, the conference attempts to enhance and add value for current research and produce an exceptional environment of knowledge exchange…All accepted paper will be published in scientific journals.List of Partners, Scientific Committee, Organizing Committee, Conference Main Themes, Conference Dates are available in this Pdf.

Рецензия на книгу: Самсонова А.А. Арт-журналистика. Речевые техники оценивания произведения искусства. Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, 2021. 118 с.

The review is devoted to the monograph by a young St. Petersburg scientist A.A. Samsonova, who considers art journalism as a discourse formed in the process of evaluating works of art. The author mainly focuses on the innovative nature of the scientific concept proposed by the researcher.

Calendar of Events in Church and State

10th Annual International Conference on Humanities and Arts in a Global World January 3–6 Athens, Greece The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) invites participants to its 10th Annual International Conference on Humanities and Arts in a Global World. The conference is sponsored by the Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts. ATINER conferences are non-thematic; however, academic members and friends can take the lead to organize and chair a stream as part of this conference. The deadline to register is December 5, 2022. For more information, please visit https://www.atiner.gr/humanities. 93rd Annual Southern Political Science Association Conference January 11–14, 2023 St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA The Southern Political Science Association is pleased to invite political scientists from across the United States and around the world to participate in its 2023 Annual Meeting. The annual meeting will provide a forum for sharing ideas, research results, and professional insights in a collegial setting. For more information or to register, please visit https://spsa.net/annual-meeting/2023-conference-information/.

Transcultural curation and the post-COVID world

New and complex forms of entanglements and power dynamics have taken place via a transcultural curation ethos of Chinese contemporary art in recent decades – the frictions of which have amplified during pandemic times. This Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (JCCA) focuses on curatorial research and debates on the transcultural and the post-COVID world in China and beyond. The editorial sets out the key conceptual framework for assessing the significance of transcultural curation and Chinese contemporary art, both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The editorial unpacks key concepts and ideas such as transculturation as theory, method and practice; interrogates the processes and challenges of curating Chinese contemporary art in a transcultural context and the post-COVID world; and maps the issue content and structure. The Special Issue invocation to transcultural curation in a post-COVID world serves as a provocation to think carefully about the connections between past, present and future, and what continues and what is new for curatorial imaginaries.

“Contiguity” as a process of semiotic lenition in Polish socialist realism art (1949–1953)

This paper investigates one aspect of the socialist enterprise that was imposed on Eastern Europe starting from 1945: the reflection of Marx’s communist ideology in the art of the period. Socrealism was but a brief episode on the Polish artistic scene, spanning only several years of the apogee of Stalinism (1949–1953). The raison d’être of this type of creative output can be circumscribed by two main tenets: (i) utter repudiation of formalism in art and stressing the need of constant vigilance for any traces thereof, and (ii) a conviction of the absolute ideological utilitarianism of art. Our project aims to semiotically inquire into the repercussions of refuting formalism in art and to disambiguate the semiotic mechanisms behind ideologically loaded artistic expression of the period, focusing on the dynamic aspect of semiosis. This will be done using the paradigm of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics and tropology in art (Chrzanowska-Kluczewska e.g. 2014). In particular, we will concentrate on the Tartu concepts of entropy, vacuous interlocutor, semiotic transparency and the metaphor-versus-metonymy dyad. The emerging category is contiguity: in Peircean as well as in cognitive terms. The study is informed by materials from the collections of Muzeum Śląska Opolskiego (Museum of Opole Silesia), in particular those presented in the exhibition Sztuka musi być zrozumiała dla mas [Art must be comprehensible for the masses] (Opole, Poland 2012, curator: Joanna Filipczyk) in particular paintings and texts, and by material excerpted from selected issues of the art journal of the period, Przegląd Artystyczny [Art Review] from the years 1949–1953. The study shows that the processes underlying this type of output can be classified as semiotic reduction relying on contiguity.

Prince(ss) Charming of the Japanese Popular Theatre

Prince(ss) Charming of the Japanese Popular Theatre

Theoretical Concepts of Film Studies in Cinema Art Journal: 1956–1968

Theoretical Concepts of Film Studies in Cinema Art Journal: 1956–1968

Professional and Personal Identity, Precarity and Discrimination in Global Arts Journalism

ABSTRACT Arts journalism, journalism on the arts and entertainment industries, has been primarily defined in a Western European context within Journalism Studies. Yet this neglects the globalised nature of arts and entertainment production and consumption and the mobile reporters who cover it, and the nationally contingent challenges and opportunities they face. In a world still grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, arts reporters face a triple threat: the precarity of what is often a freelance career, the financial disruption of the global media and entertainment industries, and the biases of a media ecosystem that favours reporters from the Global North. Drawing on 24 interviews with arts journalists from 12 different countries in four continents in 2020–2021, we explore how such journalists are increasingly subsidising their work with employment beyond the media sector. Arts journalists from Europe grapple with complex issues relating to their professional and personal identities, in contrast to journalists from the Global South, where questions relate primarily to economic and structural challenges. Journalists from West Africa interviewed face increasing if sporadic interest from media organisations in global economic centres, and the emerging content possibilities of internationally funded digital and streaming platforms, mirroring broader economic flows of capital and labour.

Influence of deep learning-based journal reading guidance system on students' national cognition and cultural acceptance.

The purpose is to explore new cultivation modes of college students’ national cognition and cultural acceptance. Deep learning (DL) technology and Educational Psychology theory are introduced, and the influence of art journal reading on college students’ national cognition and cultural acceptance is analyzed under Educational Psychology. Firstly, the background of Educational Psychology, national cognition and cultural acceptance, and learning system are discussed following a literature review. The DL technology is introduced to construct the journal reading guidance system. The system can provide users with art journals and record the user habits like reading duration and preferences. Secondly, hypotheses are proposed, and a questionnaire survey is designed, with 12 specific indicators to investigate and collect research data. Finally, the collected data are analyzed. The results show that women’s cognition of Chinese traditional culture, Chinese excellent revolutionary culture, and Chinese national identity is higher than that of men. By comparison, men’s cognition of Chinese advanced socialist culture is higher than women’s. After using the journal reading guidance system, the cognition of female college students on traditional Chinese culture is improved by 16.3%. Before and after reading art journals, the overall national cognition and cultural acceptance of Minority students are higher than that of Han students. The overall cognition of Literature and History students is higher than that of Science and Engineering students in traditional Chinese culture and China’s excellent revolutionary culture and lower in advanced Chinese socialist culture and Chinese national identity. The overall cognition of college students’ party members to the advanced socialist culture is higher than league members. As students read more art journals through the guidance system, their overall national cognition and cultural acceptance have increased. Therefore, reading art journals can promote college students’ national cognition and cultural acceptance. A national cognition and cultural acceptance promotion system that conforms to the current situation of college students is constructed. The finding provides a reference for developing complex emotion recognition technology in human-computer interaction.

Subverting the inverted pyramid: Kevin McCarra and the revolution in British football journalism 1988-2020

Football sports writing in Britain’s quality broadsheet newspapers has undergone a stylistic revolution since the 1990s. Despite being pioneered by colourful individuals in the inter-war period, football writing has usually been relegated to minor partner in the editorial mix of papers like The Guardian, The Times, and the Sunday Times. Writers such as Don Davies, Brian Glanville, and Hugh McIlvanney set a template upon which writing about sport, and football in particular, became recognised as having the same high cultural status as political or arts journalism. Reporting about football moved away from the functional telling of the narrative of a match through the five W’s of the inverted pyramid (Who, What, Where, When, and Why), towards a deeper more intellectual analysis of the cultural and social importance of the game. Kevin McCarra, who wrote for The Guardian from 2002 until his death in 2020, exemplified the new literary approach to football and helped to inspire its development online. This paper analyses where he sits in the pantheon of modern British football writing and identifies how those he has inspired to carry on the tradition have brought football writing full circle back to the pioneers of the inter-war period.

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Journal Article Abstracts Get access Oxford Art Journal, Volume 45, Issue 1, July 2022, Pages 61–63, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcac003 Published: 12 July 2022 Article history Corrected and typeset: 12 July 2022 Published: 12 July 2022

Marketing coup or paradigm shift? Reflections on the Dutch media interpretations of the 2017 ‘Mata Hari: de mythe en het meisje’

Following the major Fries Museum exhibition about Margaretha Zelle MacLeod aka Mata Hari (1876–1917), this article explores how Dutch arts journalism reflected its successful balance of commercial appeal, subject complexity, and contemporary relevance. The curators aimed to balance research with aestheticism to offer a more sympathetic view of this historically controversial subject. This article furthermore investigates how Dutch arts journalists shaped and responded to this new narrative through an analysis of relevant media reviews and reports. The resulting discourse reflected how the Fries Museum’s use of artefacts created a narrative of Mata Hari which could comment on the broader challenges for women in early twentieth century Europe. We argue that the exhibition and its reportage built upon and reflected advances in recent historiography to offer a fresh perspective on Mata Hari. Moreover, the review analysis suggests that the exhibition successfully balanced seemingly paradoxical needs, as set out in its prospectus, through the creation of such nuanced narratives.