Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies

Maiju Loukola is an artist-researcher and university lecturer at the Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. Mari Mäkiranta is a visual artist and associate professor at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, and a docent at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies. Jonna Tolonen is an artist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design.

Part I: Sites and Sentients 1. Performing with Trees as Shifting Attention 2. Nomadic Scenography and Fictional Space-Body 3. Urban Spaces between Norms and Dreams 4. Spatial References of Home – Moving on the Periphery of Public Space Part II: Aesthetics and Practices 5. Photographic Parafictions (An Aside) 6. Formation of Artistic Identity – Applying Themes of Narrative Identity Development in Two Artists’ Life Stories 7. Temporal Perspectives on Arctic Peripheries 8. We, A Peripheral Time-Space-Body: Notes on Encounterinvestigation, Corpo-Reality, and the Gentleness of Stones Part III: Visual Culture Rearticulations 9. Something is Happening in and to the Margins: Black and Brown Cultural Interventions Changing a Multiple Northern Periphery 10. Touching Gestures – An Affective Reading of a Photograph of Asylum Seekers 11. Can Artists and Lawyers See the Same Goal? Understanding the Law of Ecocide through Art, Articulations, and Creativity