Patrick Pound's work is gaining considerable momentum in the art world. His latest (most extensive) collection - "The Great Exhibition" is being shown at the NGV in Melbourne, Australia (google for details and overview) from April to... more
Patrick Pound's work is gaining considerable momentum in the art world. His latest (most extensive) collection - "The Great Exhibition" is being shown at the NGV in Melbourne, Australia (google for details and overview) from April to July, 2017. This review explores some of the questions raised by his work, and suggests that a new art "movement" is happening internationally. The author tentatively calls this "Juxta" - with its emphasis on putting unlikely images or objects together, and letting the viewer explore both the likely and unlikely (unconscious) links between them. These links not only make (sometimes) interesting connections in their own right, but also (arguably) map out the inner workings of the mind which puts them side by side. The issue of aesthetic creation cf intellectual provocation is also explored as a potential problem for Juxta works.
Abstract: As a theoretical support for the aims of theorizing the Viking Age as a diaspora, this paper reflects on the impact of diaspora on identity, especially gender. The concept of gender is considered from three positions and within... more
Abstract: As a theoretical support for the aims of theorizing the Viking Age as a diaspora, this paper reflects on the impact of diaspora on identity, especially gender. The concept of gender is considered from three positions and within the intellectual framework of gender archaeology. First, the development of a concept of gender as a fluid negotiated identity, made not given, is introduced.Thereafter the relationship between material culture and gender is considered, arguing that it is through material things and practices that gender gains substance and is experienced. Thirdly, the disruptive yet formative effects of diaspora are outlined from a gender perspective. Throughout the intellectual arguments are related to Viking-Age studies by reference to case studies within Viking-Age archaeology. Keywords: gender, identity, material culture, diaspora, Viking Age
