All Outputs (19)

The generative nature of parasites: an experimental essay on parasites and autotheory. (2024)
Journal Article
CLARKE, J. 2024. The generative nature of parasites: an experimental essay on parasites and autotheory. International journal of education and the arts [online], 25(special issue 1): art for the sake of care, article number 1.2. Available from: https://doi.org/10.26209/ijea25si1.2

This visual and poetic essay draws on the concept of the parasite from French philosopher Michele Serres, evolved into an artistic methodology within the author's ongoing project Feminist Hospitalities (2020-). Situated within the context of ongoing... Read More about The generative nature of parasites: an experimental essay on parasites and autotheory..

Feminist hospitalities, para-sites and parasites. (2024)
Journal Article
CLARKE, J. 2024. Feminist hospitalities, para-sites and parasites. Northeast Asian studies [online], 28, pages 91-105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.50974/0002000664

This essay emerges from an anthropological and artistic exploration of the concept of the parasite or para-sitic used as a developing methodology, in the context of a long-term, ongoing project I call "Feminist Hospitalities" (2020-). In this researc... Read More about Feminist hospitalities, para-sites and parasites..

Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed? (2022)
Thesis
ZEISKE, C.F. 2022. Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed? Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2071859

While a lot has been written in the past two decades about the impact of participatory arts on people in urban places, my practice-based research aims to fill the gap in relation to the rural context - often places with little traditional arts provis... Read More about Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed?.

Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now? (2021)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2021. Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now? In The Roland Barthes Reading Group (eds.) Setting a bell ringing. The constellations, 17. London: MA Bibliothèque, pages 31-39.

I was moved to respond to the request to reflect on my experience of the Roland Barthes Reading Group partly because of the beautiful phrasing around ‘the situation of encounter'. I had joined this group as a visitor, intent only on dipping my toe in... Read More about Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now?.

Archiving and imagination in an intertidal zone. (2021)
Journal Article
CLARKE, J. and YAZDANI, J. 2021. Archiving and imagination in an intertidal zone. Roadsides [online], 5: archive, pages 50-59. Available from: https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202100508

The authors explore, in a conversation informed by experimental visual methodologies, the concurrence of two historically disjointed, yet adjacent, sites: the shipwreck of Danish cargo steamer G. Koch and the expansion of Aberdeen Harbour in Scotland... Read More about Archiving and imagination in an intertidal zone..

A story of she: collective feminist film making at home (between Japan and Scotland). (2020)
Journal Article
CLARKE, J., DUFFY, F., GRANT, R., HOMMA, M., SAKAMOTO, N., MCWHINNEY, S. and TAKI, A. 2020. A story of she: collective feminist film making at home (between Japan and Scotland). Entanglements [online], 3(2) pages 97-102. Available from: https://entanglementsjournal.org/a-story-of-she-collective-feminist-film-making-at-home-between-japan-and-scotland/

‘Speculative Fiction: Practicing Collectively’ is the title of the ongoing collective film practice, produced between different people and places, on screen, and in homes, in Scotland and Japan. Situated in critical feminist perspectives, the authors... Read More about A story of she: collective feminist film making at home (between Japan and Scotland)..

Writings between: vulnerability and resistance: the third and final part of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
GAUSDEN, C. and CLARKE, J. 2020. Writings between: vulnerability and resistance: the third and final part of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. Posted on MAP magazine [online], 58(September 2020). Available from: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/writings-between-1

This is the third and final article in the Writings Between series of correspondence between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke. These letters cross formal and informal borders, ‘writings between’ us, and things, marking a moment that has forced us to r... Read More about Writings between: vulnerability and resistance: the third and final part of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality..

Writings between: bodies of knowledge: part two of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
GAUSDEN, C. and CLARKE, J. 2020. Writings between: bodies of knowledge: part two of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. Posted on MAP magazine [online], 58(September 2020). Available from: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/writings-between

This is the second article in the Writings Between series of correspondence between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke. These letters cross formal and informal borders, ‘writings between’ us, and things, marking a moment that has forced us to rethink wh... Read More about Writings between: bodies of knowledge: part two of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality..

Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
GAUSDEN, C. and CLARKE, J. 2020. Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality. Posted on MAP magazine [online], 58,(September 2020). Available from: https://mapmagazine.co.uk/writings-between-correspondences-on-the-politics-of-hosting-and-hospitality

In Spring, Caroline and Jen planned to produce and publish a short dialogue for an exhibition by artists Juliane Foronda, Kirsty Russell and Tako Taal, A Spoon is the Safest Vessel, hosted by the Look Again Project space in Aberdeen. Working with Car... Read More about Writings between: taking time: part one of a series of correspondences between Caroline Gausden and Jen Clarke on the politics of hosting and hospitality..

Review of Natalie Loveless (ed.) "Knowings and knots: methodologies and ecologies in research-creation". (2020)
Journal Article
CLARKE, J. 2020. Review of Natalie Loveless (ed.) "Knowings and knots: methodologies and ecologies in research-creation". Journal for artistic research [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0031

Knowings and Knots itself offers few detailed discussions of actual knots, save for Caroline Cambre's impeccable description of Inca khipu knots, which 'exist at the juncture of memory, language, visual signs, and tactile processes' and could 'be und... Read More about Review of Natalie Loveless (ed.) "Knowings and knots: methodologies and ecologies in research-creation"..

Bodies of archives / archival bodies: an introduction. (2020)
Journal Article
BATTAGLIA, B., CLARKE, J. and SIEGENTHALER, F. 2020. Bodies of archives/archival bodies: an introduction. Visual anthropology review [online], 36(1), pages 8-16. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12203

Compared to other disciplines and despite its central role in research practices, the concept of the “archive” has received insufficient critical attention in anthropology until recently. Anthropologists working in collaboration with artists and cura... Read More about Bodies of archives / archival bodies: an introduction..

Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan. (2020)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2020. Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan. In Schorch, P., Saxer, M. and Elders, M. (eds.) Exploring materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond. London: UCL Press [online], pages 172-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357488

On 11 March 2011, a ‘triple disaster’ (an earthquake – the strongest since records began – a subsequent tsunami, and a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant) devastated the Tohoku region of north-east Japan. This singular yet predictable ev... Read More about Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan..

From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. (2019)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2020. From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 8, pages 133-146. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-8

As lines between 'social practice' in art and social research blur, anthropologists are increasingly taking on curatorial roles in contemporary art settings and/or employing artistic methodologies in exhibition-making. This chapter explores some dyna... Read More about From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology..

Porosity and protection. (2019)
Digital Artefact
CLARKE, J. 2019. Porosity and protection. Posted on Fieldsights, blog of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Editors' forum: theorizing the contemporary [online], 25 April 2019. Available from: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/porosity-and-protection

The author first saw traces of destruction in the spring of 2014, when driving, with an art therapist friend, towards a coastal village north of the "difficult to return zone", near the Fukushima Diichi nuclear power plant. Known in Japan as 3.11, th... Read More about Porosity and protection..

The different audiences of Sophie Calle. (2018)
Journal Article
CLARKE, J. 2018. The different audiences of Sophie Calle. Suomen antropologi: journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society [online], 43(1), pages 39-40. Available from: https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v43i1.74071

This article is part of a special section in the journal which discusses Sophie Callie's work, contemporary art and anthropology.

交流 kōryū. (2017)
Book
CLARKE, J., HANAHUSA, R., LAI, I.-C., LUCAS, R., LYNCH, H., MILLER, M., SUGITA, Y., TAKAHUSHI, M. and VIONNET, C. 2017. 交流 kōryū. Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen [online]. Available from: https://knowingfromtheinside.org/files/koryu.pdf

The title I have given this book, 交流kōryū, is a Japanese word that can be broadly translated into English as ‘exchange(s)’. Its meanings correspond to the breadth of meaning ‘exchange’ offers in English, including acts of giving and receiving (ofte... Read More about 交流 kōryū..

Japan blues: ao, ai, midori, aizome, ao-ja-shin. (2017)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2017. Japan blues: ao, ai, midori, aizome, ao-ja-shin. In Harkness, R. (ed.) An unfinished compendium of materials. Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen [online], pages 85-88. Available from: https://knowingfromtheinside.org/files/unfinished.pdf

These impressions of blue have come from reflecting on visitors responses to my use of the colour blue during a residency in Japan that focused on making and exhibiting 24 24-hour cyanotype photograms. The exhibition was arranged as an act of remembr... Read More about Japan blues: ao, ai, midori, aizome, ao-ja-shin..

Plant matter: 'A play of forces'; after translating entropy. (2017)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2017. Plant matter: 'A play of forces'; after translating entropy. In Harkness, R. (ed.) An unfinished compendium of materials. Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen [online], pages 85-88. Available from: https://knowingfromtheinside.org/files/unfinished.pdf

This work explores ideas of excess and entropy, working with ikebana arrangements of plant matter at different stages of freshness and decay, partly in order to explore the related ideas of photosynthesis - essentially the ordering of disordered matt... Read More about Plant matter: 'A play of forces'; after translating entropy..

Jen Clarke on Phoebe Banks' "Girl in a pub toilet". [Blog post]
Digital Artefact
CLARKE, J. 2024. Jen Clarke on Phoebe Banks' "Girl in a pub toilet". [Blog post]. Posted on LUX Scotland [online], 31 May 2024. Available from: https://luxscotland.org.uk/programme/writing/jen-clarke-on-phoebe-banks-girl-in-a-pub-toilet

In this blog post, the author responds to "Girl in a Pub Toilet" (2024), by Phoebe Banks - a moving image artwork that explores grief and the fleeting intimacies of stranger-friendships.