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Issue 17
Winter 2015
The Marvellous Real
Past Gazing, Future Glimpses

Issue 17

The Marvellous Real

Past Gazing, Future Glimpses

Chronicles of the Marvellous Real

Dominique Hecq
Swinburne University of Technology
By what processes do thinkers and artists create their own versions of things? 'Can thinkers, artists and scientists who have created our world and histories still speak to us in the twenty-first century?’

‘All Coherence Gone?’ Contemporary Still Life and the Potential of the Historical Genre

Frances Woodley
Aberystwyth University
What is meant by a still life? A still life is a representation, a reflection, a transformation and a revelation of the objects around us. But this can be narrowed down further to the representation of objects in space in relation to a surface.

Let the Images Imagine: Potential Roles for the Arts in the Approach to Climate Change

Rob Roggema
Wageningen University, Van Hall Larenstein
In relation to climate change, art can have a function to alert human imagination, provoke an emotional response to images and to change human consciousness, while science seeks truth-finding into whether climate changes and how.

How Many Moves on the Chessboard? Kafka, Calvino, and their Navigations of the Virtual

Lucy (Tilly) Houghton
Deakin University
This article examines the approach to space within Franz Kafka’s short story ‘The Burrow’ and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and discusses how their depictions of space anticipated the significance of the virtual in the current age.

Soluble Fish: Picture-Words in a Limitless Sea — Surrealist Poetics and a History of the Unconscious

Rina Bruinsma
Deakin University
This article re-considers the oft-cited argument that psychoanalytic theories of unconscious desire have deeply influenced Surrealism. It invokes André Breton’s automatic text Soluble Fish as a starting point for re-visioning how the Surrealists envisaged tapping into the unconscious.

On the Encounter between Lacan and a Cicada: A Precedent into Sound Research

Dominique Hecq
Swinburne University of Technology
This article concerns a collaborative sound and poetry artwork titled Thirst, created by this author and a sound artist. The poetics invoked in the title of the paper refers to the cultural tradition that informs my work, including manifest and tacit authorial intentions.

The Future of Historicity in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction

Michael Giffin
Sydney College of Divinity
In Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002), Margaret Atwood offers two observations about authorial historicity: first, authors adopt their terms of discourse early in their lives; second, authors are still living in the shadow of the Romantic movement or its fragments.

Design as precursor: Michel de Certeau’s ‘practice’ and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Kim Roberts
Deakin University
This essay considers an in-progress investigation of the ways in which visitors (in particular, foreign visitors) to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park navigate its conceptual and physical spaces.

The trouble with the past is it’s easy to forget: Memory, Nationalism and the plays of Dorothy Hewett

Peter Beaglehole
Flinders University
Using the concepts of memory and forgetting as keystones, this paper charts some broad trends in the making of the Australian repertoire before arriving at a close reading of Dorothy Hewett's The Man from Mukinupin (1979) and Nowhere (2001).

The Feminist Performance Art of Brown Council: An Interview with Diana Smith

Sarah French
The University of Melbourne
This article discusses two interrelated trajectories of the work of Sydney-based performance art collective Brown Council: their ongoing challenge to definitions of performance, and their consistent engagement with feminist politics.

A Broken Music

Christopher Norris
The University of Cardiff
Poetry

Contributors to Issue 17

Biograhical Details

 

Cover Art: Detail, Trompe l’oeil with Writing Materials, Edwaert Colyer, ca. 1702. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Credit: V&A Museum

The title of this issue of Double Dialogues reeks of course with irony at a time in which the ‘real’ has been so contested. Its marvellous qualities allude more to absence than to presence. In this collection of essays we are looking back at thinkers and artists and speculating on what the past can tell us about the way we might envisage a future.

These essays explore the fact of precursors and in doing so engage a little with magic and the powers of prophecies inherent perhaps in the best most-celebrated works from the past. This refers to philosophies, histories and psychologies as it does to all forms of art

 

Double Dialogues | Refereed Arts Journal | ISSN 1447-9591  
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