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Co-authoring the Future: Stories from the Road (2022)

Jessica Renfro
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Framed by the metaphor of a road trip, this exposition explores the use of participatory performance in building cultural discourse about decision-making during the climate crisis. Using Rancière’s concept of the emancipated spectator, common human experiences such as childhood development of subjectivity (acquired through Lacan’s mirror phase and symbolic order) and image schemas (as discussed in Mark Turner’s The Literary Mind) are explored as possible strategies for co-authoring an artistic landscape alongside spectators. An audio narration accompanies the written work, attempting to explore these theories in the form of a correspondence between the author and her elusive self-awareness. Each track reflects on these individual-but-common experiences as a method for creation. The author concludes that a co-authored artistic landscape may only be accessible to participants who are enticed to set aside limiting social norms in order to explore it, and this is the challenge of the artist.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsClimate Crisis, Co-Authorship, Participation
date27/10/2019
published20/07/2022
last modified20/07/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationArtEZ University of the Arts
copyrightJessica Renfro 2019
licensePublic domain
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1708471/1708472
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1708471
published inResearch Catalogue
external linkwww.jessicarenfro.com


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1708475 prototype sketches-25 Jessica Renfro 2019 Public domain
1708506 Marco Polo Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708520 prototype sketches-19 Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708536 Still waters run deep Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708543 Mismatch Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708549 self portrait Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708554 It's a cult Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708558 Do the right thing. Do it all the time Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708561 prototype sketches-41 Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved
1708591 Poor Wayfaring Stranger Jessica Renfro 2019 All rights reserved

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