Justin Parks
Fonction
Professeur
Organisation
University of Norway
Lien université
Border Culture/Border Poetics Research Group
Border Culture/Border Poetics Research Group
Border Region
Union européenne, monde entier
Language(s)
Anglais
Main Category
Introduction
Understanding the relationship between territorial borders and the aesthetic works that take them as their subject forms the basis of the work done by the Border Culture/Border Poetics research group.
Summary
The Border Culture/Border Poetics group is an international research group led by members of the Arctic University of Norway (UIT). They propose a new border aesthetics serving to better grasp the representations of borders in the artistic and academic domains. They focus their activities on the scientific and educational fields.
Content
They develop theoretical and practical approaches (which they call "border poetics") to examine the functions of different forms of representation that appear when aesthetic production intersects with territorial borders. They propose to establish a new aesthetics drawn from those intersections.
They are interested in different forms of aesthetic expression: literature, films, photography, design, urban planning and video art.
This network of researchers collaborates or has collaborated with international projects such as: Border Aesthetics project, EuBorderscapes and Borders and Migration: approach and methods in research and teaching. Other actions include: the organisation of seminars and international conferences, the publication and editing of scientific books, various scientific papers, university lectures, production of films on their themes, the compiling of a glossary of terms relating to the notion of Border Poetics.
Conclusions
Their working hypotheses stem from a fundamental principle of explaining that border formation and the way borders are experienced are largely influenced by symbolism and narratives of all kinds, and, conversely, that the symbolism of borders and their different aesthetic representations are marked by the reality and experience of territorial borders.
For the Border Culture/Border Poetics research group, this principle applies to all academic and artistic representations of borders. Understanding it therefore makes it possible to develop investigative techniques applied to interdisciplinary academic practices taking borders as a subject for research.
Lead
Justin Parks
Contact Person(s)
Date of creation
2020