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<p>This article explores discomfort as it relates to art. It proceeds from the author’s own framework of the ‘cracked art world’, bringing that model into conversation with the anthropology of affect. It identifies and explores three different ways in which affects of discomfort arise in art world encounters: discomfort from art, discomfort about art, and discomfort with (other) people. In exploring discomfort with (other) people, it focuses in particular on intercultural arts events, suggesting that these spaces produce affective ambivalence.</p>
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This article explores discomfort as it relates to art. It proceeds from the author’s own framework of the ‘cracked art world’, bringing that model into conversation with the anthropology of affect. It identifies and explores three different ways in which affects of discomfort arise in art world encounters: discomfort from art, discomfort about art, and discomfort with (other) people. In exploring discomfort with (other) people, it focuses in particular on intercultural arts events, suggesting that these spaces produce affective ambivalence.

Situating Discomfort in the Cracked Art World

Borderlands Journal

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Discomfort from Art, Discomfort about Art, and Discomfort with (Other) People

This article explores discomfort as it relates to art. It proceeds from the author’s own framework of the ‘cracked art world’, bringing that model into...

Situating Discomfort in the Cracked Art World

Data publikacji: 22 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 118 - 142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2022-015

Słowa kluczowe
Affect, art, cracked art world, discomfort, interculturalism

© 2022 Kayla Rush published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Situating Discomfort in the Cracked Art World

Data publikacji: 22 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 118 - 142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2022-015

Słowa kluczoweAffect, art, cracked art world, discomfort, interculturalism

© 2022 Kayla Rush published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
Affect, art, cracked art world, discomfort, interculturalism