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

Non-Representational Theory - Part 1: 'Entering the Space of Encounter'

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

About the book:

This book presents distinct perspectives from both geographically-oriented creative practices and geographers working with arts-based processes. In doing so, it fills a significant gap in the already sizeable body of non-representational discourse by bringing together images and reflections on performances, art practice, theatre, dance, and sound production alongside theoretical contributions and examples of creative writing. It considers how contemporary art making is being shaped by spatial enquiry and how geographical research has been influenced by artistic practice. It provides a clear and concise overview of the principles of non-representational theory for researchers and practitioners in the creative arts and, across its four sections, demonstrates the potential for non-representational theory to bring cultural geography and contemporary art closer than ever before.

This is what the endorsers are saying:

Weaving together tales by scholars and practitioners, Non-representational Theory and Creative Arts is an important and timely contribution to the ongoing dialogue between cultural geography and creative art practice. Ambitious in scope, varied in style and innovative in format, the collection takes the reader on a compelling journey through stitches and studios, trees and art installations, water streams and ruins, geothermal vapours and musical tunes. It pushes for new tropes and vocabularies to talk about familiar and unfamiliar atmospheres, places, gestures, and all that stirs and eludes the human senses and imagination.

Veronica Della Dora, Royal Holloway University of London

Over the past fifteen years, non-representational theories have become central to the social sciences and humanities, inaugurating new ways of conceptualising and approaching the world. Featuring a multidisciplinary range of contributors who have been at the forefront of non-representational styles of thought and research, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts is unique for its sustained and experimental engagement with the practices, styles and techniques of research that non-representational theories invite and offer. As such, it will become an invaluable resource for researchers hoping to learn new ways of encountering and presenting the world.

Ben Anderson, Durham University, UK

How might we envision a geography in the making, in the moving? With thought-provoking contributions that activate the affective force of the geologic, Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts explores the thresholds that move geography beyond representation toward its creative force. Entering the space of encounter, this book tests the limits of writing in a field that has always explored what lurks at the interstice of line and fold.

Erin Manning, Concordia University, Montréal