Cultural Studies ( IF 1.533 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 , DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2020.1844264 Minna Valjakka 1
ABSTRACT
The socio-political transformations of East and Southeast Asia, their direct impact on the changing norms of censorship, cultural and urban policies, and on growing surveillance have led people involved with the socially engaged artistic and creative practices to develop varied tactics and strategies to renegotiate the (im)material boundaries set for them. These mainly discursive, spatial, temporal and aesthetic forms of affective civic engagement aim to disseminate alternative envisionings without necessarily having a directly antagonistic agenda towards the establishment. Inspired by the recent discourses of affect and its potentiality not only in arts but more broadly in temporary, human/nonhuman encounters, and also in the urban environment, I propose that this kind of liminal and fluid self-positioning between ‘underground(s)’ and mainstream could be better understood as ‘affective paragrounds’. As an organic and continuously reconfiguring rhizomatic translocal network of protagonists – and their (in)tangible spaces – affective paragrounds are premised on mixed-method temporary approaches and alliances of communal collaborations with continuously changing positions, roles and strategies. By paragrounding themselves in ‘in-between-ness’ of private and public, they function on the borderline of (in)visibility to re-envision gradual transformations of socio-political and cultural conditions, at the same time raising awareness of freedom of expression, participatory citizenship and civil society formation.
中文翻译:
情感方面:新加坡多学科当代艺术的另类构想
摘要
东亚和东南亚的社会政治变革,其对不断变化的审查制度,文化和城市政策以及日益增长的监视的直接影响,导致参与社会参与艺术和创作实践的人们制定了各种策略和战略来重新谈判为他们设置的(im)物质界限。这些主要的话语,空间,时间和美学形式的情感公民参与旨在传播替代性设想,而不必对机构直接反对。受到最近关于情感及其潜力的论述的启发,不仅在艺术方面,而且更广泛地是在人类,非人类的暂时性相遇以及城市环境中,我建议可以更好地将“地下”和主流之间的这种边缘和流动的自我定位理解为“情感地下”。作为主角及其(在)有形空间中根际的有机且不断重新配置的情感情感,其前提是混合方法临时方法和位置,角色和策略不断变化的社区合作联盟。通过将自己置于私人和公共之间的“中间关系”中,它们在(看不见)边界上起作用,以重新构想社会政治和文化条件的逐步转变,同时提高表达自由的意识,参与性公民身份和公民社会的形成。作为主角及其(在)有形空间中根际的有机且不断重新配置的情感情感,其前提是混合方法临时方法和位置,角色和策略不断变化的社区合作联盟。通过将自己置于私人和公共之间的“中间关系”中,它们在(看不见)边界上起作用,以重新构想社会政治和文化条件的逐步转变,同时提高表达自由的意识,参与性公民身份和公民社会的形成。作为主角及其(在)有形空间中根际的有机且不断重新配置的情感情感,其前提是混合方法临时方法和位置,角色和策略不断变化的社区合作联盟。通过将自己置于私人和公共之间的“中间关系”中,它们在(看不见)边界上起作用,以重新构想社会政治和文化条件的逐步转变,同时提高表达自由的意识,参与性公民身份和公民社会的形成。