Arts Agency • Vol. 16
Arts Agency • Vol. 16

One of the recent turns in the humanities and arts research is the switch from a focus on art as a static, representational thing to art as an active actor within a larger network of agential objects. What unites these approaches is that they all suggest that art is something that does things. Such a perspective explodes the notion of art, opening it up to a broad range of practices, where art participates in society instead of merely reflecting society. Art is thus not only a cultural field a la Pierre Bourdieu (1993) but also a range of practices intent on engaging our senses and sensibilities. Where earlier aesthetic and cultural research focused on matters of meaning, signification, and hermeneutics, this special issue asks questions of aesthesis, materiality, agency, performativity, sensation, and feeling. Not as a matter of rejecting earlier findings but simply as an attempt to explore the “other side” of the experience of art.

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Steen Ledet Christiansen, Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, Frederik Tygstrup
5-8
Introduction
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i16.2600
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Lance Putnam, Elizabeth Jochum
9-21
Computation as Medium: Agency and Motion in Interactive Art
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2602
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Steen Ledet Christiansen
22-35
Sounds of Futures Past: Materiality, Hauntology, Affect
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2603
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Beate Schirrmacher
36-50
Disturbing the Metaphor: Performance and Medial Presence in the Fiction of Elfriede Jelinek and Günter Grass
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2604
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Jens Kirk
51-64
Changing Your Vision for Good: The Work of Words and Books in Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2605
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Kim Malmbak  Meltofte Møller
65-74
Experiencing a painting: An interdisciplinary discussion regarding epistemology and experiencing
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2606
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Anders Bonde, Birger Larsen
75-96
Studying the Aesthetics of Images and Advertising Films: Combining Systemic-Functional Grammar and Audience Physiology
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2607
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Birgit Eriksson
Dissolving Europe? Fear of refugees and ourselves in Christian Lollike’s Living Dead
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2608
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Linani Lochner
111-120
What Literature Can Do: Performing Affect in Zoë Wicomb’s October
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2610
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Jodie Childers
121-132
Making Art as Resistance: The Psychiatric Patient as Subject
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2611
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Katalin Halász
133-148
Performing Sociology at a Music Festival
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2612
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Frederik Tygstrup
149-162
The Work of Art: From Fetish to Forum
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2613
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Rita Felski
163-169
How is an Art Work an Agent?
https://doi.org/10.5278/ojs.ak.v0i16.2614
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