On the edge: an exploration of the visual arts in remote rural contexts of Northern Scotland.

Douglas, Anne

Abstract

This case study is a programme of five visual art projects in Northern Scotland with five regional partners that have come about through a research framework. It demonstrates aspects of the dynamic of intervention largely focused by conversation between the participants in the process. Intervention, as an artistic tactic (De Certeau, 1998), raises a number of significant questions that challenge a conventional understanding of how art is made and experienced, in particular the status of the artist as sole author, the artwork as the sole vehicle for exploring creativity, and the audience as passive witnesses of the creative act.

Citation

DOUGLAS, A. 2005. On the edge: an exploration of the visual arts in remote rural contexts of Northern Scotland. In Miles, M. and Hall, T. (eds.) Interventions: art in the public sphere. Advances in art and urban features, 4. Bristol: Intellect, pages 89-106.

• Publication Date: Feb 28, 2005
• Deposit Date: Aug 27, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 27, 2009
• Print ISSN: 1742-9412
• Publisher: Intellect
• Pages: 89-106
• Series Title: Advances in art and urban features
• Series Number: 4
• Series ISSN: 1742-9412
• Book Title: Interventions: art in the public sphere.
• ISBN: 9781841501185
• Keywords: Visual art; Northern Scotland; Art
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/406
• Contract Date: Aug 27, 2009