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You Look at Me Looking at You Looking at Me.
- Source :
- Arts (2076-0752); Apr2023, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p73, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Living and working for a month at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, the artist's life was watched and observed by a group of resident monkeys. This paper is based on notes begun during that studio residency and represents the critical reflections emerging alongside the hands-on sculptural practice. It is illustrated with close-up photographs of the artist's sculpture that asks how encounters with fabled animals in densely populated 21st century urban areas can alter our understanding of the gaze as an inter-species gaze. The sculpture and paper begin to ask broader questions, including how can sculpture provide a different, and perhaps more tacit and empathetic, encounter with the other to enable a physical, mental or spiritual experience of cultural entanglement between the various onlookers? In how far is modelling the other's gaze a form of embodiment and mimicry? Do the fast-changing camera angles and soundtracks of natural history programmes hinder an empathic inter-species encounter? Or, does the slow animation of the artist's sculpted surface heighten a sense of being alongside equally curious, cunning and adaptable others such as crows, foxes and monkeys? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20760752
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Arts (2076-0752)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163376589
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020073