Lessons of belonging : : art, place, and the sea / / by John Baldacchino.

• Superior document: Doing arts thinking : arts practice, research and education ; volume 11
• VerfasserIn: Baldacchino, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Doing arts thinking ; v. 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 159 pages) :; illustrations.

"Prompting this book is the paradox of belonging. What pushes the author to write are art's questions. Rather than take the route of writing, artists in academia could opt for the studio, teaching students, and occasionally indulge in conferences and symposia. However, beyond such rituals, writing art's questions remains akin to art's acts of belonging. In these lessons of belonging this is done through art's paradox. Belonging is a matter of art because art belongs to the aporia that writes it"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Nowhere: recurrent exits -- Art's pagan intents -- Renegotiating belonging -- The world, autonomy, and struggle -- Scotland, Malta, Palestine: indirect belonging -- Art's thirdness -- Living somewhere -- Indirectness, be-longing -- Assumptions of making -- Rummiena, rummeenah, pomegranates -- California, Armenia: a me´tier for living -- Presumed space -- Finding paradox -- Prosthetic syntheses -- Shared belonging(s) -- Exiting -- Impasse -- Synthetic prosthesis -- The dialectic's beyond -- Paradox's pedagogy -- Wounded by water -- Ghana, Crete, Andalusia: aesthetic dissonance -- White liberal tolerance -- Beyond tolerance -- Recognition, specificity, distinction -- Aesthetics contra aesthetics -- Harlem, Hellas, Yoruba, Auschwitz: aesthetic identity -- "We have no models" -- Learning to pray -- 'Our' contemporaneity -- The child and the tree -- Paris, Prague: art's foreignness -- Beauty's polity -- Normalised deadly phenomena -- An excuse for Bildung's attraction -- Remembering to forget -- Avant-nostalgia's inverted belonging -- Kundera's excuse -- Alexandria, Monterosso: nostalgic salt -- Performances of difference -- Before and after the shipwreck -- Journey and nostalgia -- Poetic-pedagogical hypotheses -- Al-Bahr al-Abyad, ha-Yam ha-Tikhon, Mesógeios, Mediterraneo: thalassic lessons -- Vantage points -- "This 'inland sea' of ideals" -- Doing, undergoing, and living deliberately -- Culture, revolt and colonised economies -- An aesthetic sense of belonging -- Lessons of belonging.