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Diverging Collectives: Artist-Run Spaces versus Warehouse Shows Comparative models of art production and cooperation among young British artists

2017

The paper addresses the case of artist-run spaces and warehouse shows in the United Kingdom between the 1980s and 1990s, a time when autonomous group shows and independent artist collectives sprawled particularly thanks to the engagement of a new generation of artists, among whom were found later celebrities such as Damien Hirst and Douglas Gordon. It will be argued that both artist-run spaces and warehouse shows were feasible solutions for young authors against art market barriers and economic crisis, although they held structural and organisational differences that would affect aesthetic outcomes and present art history with a shift in the model of the art collective.

Physics and metaphysics in the Hitchhiker Series (1979-1992) by Douglas Adams

2006

Chasing Shakespeare: The Impurity of the “Not Quite” in Norry Niven’s From Above and Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is My Romeo

2017

The essay situates the “not Shakespeare” of this volume within the theoretical problematics of the “post-textual.” It re-elaborates the “post-textual” as the uncanny re-appearance of Shakespeare in the form of heterogeneous fragments that are made to cohabit with various textual and media environments. These media products include a “Shakespeare” that is not quite Shakespeare, an “entity” that becomes the site of unceasing transactions (for instance, between an “outside” and an “inside,” between visibility and invisibility, between the “original” and its iteration) and multiple contaminations (through media, characters, and plays).

Process art as an aesthetic alternative

2022

The present chapter examines Creed’s early career, particularly the artistic connection to his hometown as well as his peculiar conception of creativeness, for which Douglas Gordon emerges as an influential point of reference. This link to Glasgow has been widely overlooked by critics so far, who rather analyse Creed from a London-centred perspective. Hence, the principal aim of this chapter is to broaden the research scope and possibly detect some strains of early philosophical reasoning and artistic ontogenesis that gradually shaped Creed’s early production. My investigation covers roughly a decade from the late 1980s – Creed’s art school years in London – to the end of the century, short…

La Parola di Dio iscritta sulla pelle nella prassi artistica post-concettuale di Douglas Gordon

2021

The paper offers an analysis of how tattoos, although they only very recently established a niche of their own in contemporary art, became an important medium of religious art, particularly for Christianity. A central character is identified in Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, a celebrity of todays art world, who addressed the relationship with the Word of God already in his early works. Indeed, Gordon's tattoos are textual and inscribe the body with words. Penance and faith, possession and salvation are at the center of his creativity and find tattoos to be a convenient vehicle to confer a newly rediscovered sacred dimension to the body. In Gordons works the inscription acquires a religious…

BORDERS AND BORDER CROSSING BETWEEN ART WORLDS. Successful attempts and epic failures to enter new domains in recent British art

2016

The paper attempts to answer, whether it is possible for successful artists in one specific sector to access the domain of another artistic field at their free will. In doing so, this contribution analyses the possible existence of borders and gatekeepers between different art worlds. The aim is not just finding or defining boundaries between art fields, but rather understanding, if boundaries can be pierced through, as well as the conditions that might hinder acceptance. Moving from an art theoretical and philosophical perspective, the present paper will discuss the thesis of Pierre Bourdieu, Howard Becker, Berys Gaut and Joseph Margolis on boundary conditions in the arts. Subsequently the…

Nürnbergin psykiatri pahuuden olemusta etsimässä

2020

Sodan jälkeen liittoutuneiden vangeiksi jääneet natsijohtajat kiinnostivat suuren yleisön ohella psyyken asiantuntijoita, jotka pyrkivät selvittämään pahuuden olemusta. Teos kertoo mielenkiintoisen ja dramaattisen tarinan korkea-arvoisia natseja tutkineesta psykiatrista, joka ei lopulta ollutkaan niin erilainen kuin tutkimuksensa kohteet. nonPeerReviewed

Virhepäätelmä argumentaatioteoreettisena käsitteenä

2004

Tieteen objektiivisuuden ehdoista

2016

Jyväskylässä 5.9.2015 pidetty Lectio Praecursoria.

Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain

2022

Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain, suom. Laura Jänisniemi, WSOY, 2022, s.496. nonPeerReviewed