Non-Representational Theory - Part 2: 'Challenging Ossified Systems of Power'

Edited by Candice P. Boyd and Christian Edwardes, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts has just been published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2019.

Below is an abstract for my own chapter in the book - a photo essay - 'Psy(co)motion: Anti-Production and Détournement in Affective Musical Cartographies'. And below that is a list of contents for the book:

This chapter discusses the musical compilation series psy(co)motion in the context of a Guattarian analysis. It introduces the set of psychogeographically-oriented CDs within the mix-tape/CD phenomenon while situating it as a form that challenges ossified systems of power. The chapter goes on to discuss whether psy(co)motion manages to successfully recuperate itself through the molecular creation of the object, and via its virtual and physical dissemination.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Non-Representational Dreams

Nigel Thrift

1          Creative Practice and the Non-Representational

Candice P. Boyd and Christian Edwardes

Part 1  Situated Practices in Art, Craft and Design

2          Geo/graphic design

Alison Barnes 

3          Geologic Landscape: A Performance and a Wrecked Mobile Phone

Veronica Vickery 

4          Micro-Geographies of the Studio

Christian Edwardes 

5          Making, knowing and being made: hand-stitching beyond representation  

Emma Shercliff 

6          Feeling Queer Art in Public:  The Gay Liberation Monument

Martin Zebracki

Part 2  Artistic Engagements with Geography

7          Affecting Objects:  Enacting Gesture Within a Performative Research Enquiry

Sarah Bennett

8          Circadian Rhythms, Sunsets, and the Representational Thresholds of Time-Lapse Photography

Kaya Barry

9          ‘Call That Art?  I Call It Bad Eyesight’:  Seeing or Not Seeing in the Context of Responsive Art Practice

Annie Lovejoy

10        Forward, Back, Together – and the Materialities of Taking Part

Simon Pope

11        Where Does ‘Your’ Space End and the Next Begin?  Non-Representational Geographies of Improvised Performance

Candice P. Boyd with Yan Yang, Juana Beltrán, Clinton Green, Jordan White, Carmen Chan Schoenborn, Elnaz Sheshgelani, Chun-liang Liu, Michael McNab, and Ren Walters 

Part 3  Geographers Exploring Artistic Practice

12        Making Theatre That Matters:  Troubling Subtext, Motive, and Intuition

Ruth Raynor

13        Creativity, Labour, and Captain Cook’s Cottage:  From Great Ayton to Fitzroy Gardens

Tim Edensor 

14        Material Conditions in the Post-Human City

Andrew Gorman-Murray 

15        Attuning to the Geothermal-Urban:  Kinetics, Cinematics, and Digital Elementality

Matthew Shepherd 

16        Thresholds of Representation:  Physical Disability in Dance and Perceptions of the Moving Body

Michelle Duffy, Paul Atkinson, and Nicola Wood

Interlude

Supervising

Harriet Hawkins and Rachel Hughes

Part 4  Sound, Music, and Creative Mobilities

17        Audio Recording as Performance

Michael Gallagher

18        Psy(co)motion: Anti-Production and Détournement in Affective Musical Cartographies

Tina Richardson 

19        Walk with Me

Jeffrey Hannam and Lawrence Harvey 

20        Imaginal Travel:  An Expedition in Fine Art Practice in Search of the Loneliest Palm

Gayle Chong Kwan 

21        Fragments (formerly Tales from the Asylum)

Thomas Jellis and Joe Gerlach

22        On Edge:  Writing Non-Representational Journeys

David Bissell

Afterword

Sensing the World Anew

Barbara Bolt