Haku

The chapter provides a naturalist-pragmatist analysis of agency and its development across the continuum of biological and social processes of signification using Peircean tools such as phaneroscopic categories, semiotic ...

Danced histories are not linear but circular, as dancing bodies return and reinterpret past dances. Theorizing the import of contemporaneity as an evaluative notion, this chapter examines a practice-based research ...

Traditionally, early twentieth-century Vyborg has been known for its vibrant cosmopolitanism and bustling cultural life. The city's ethnic, religious, and culturally diverse population, its geographical position as a border ...

In this chapter we study representations of the last Plantagenet king of England, Richard III, relating his myth and history to the discovery of his body in 2012 in a Leicester car park. Focusing on the body of Richard, ...

The immediate impulse for writing this chapter was a small work for bass voice and piano written by the famous Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. The composition, whose text (aside from a quotation from Alexander Pushkin) ...

As an artist who is usually engaged with folklore and its performance, especially “Wildman” characters as they appear in folk rituals across Europe, I am especially interested in the connections between wildness, folklore, ...

This text deals with forests and fences in a material sense, taking as its starting point two experiments related to the problem of how to perform with trees in two residencies on opposite sides of the planet: An ARA (Arts ...

This semi-fictional chapter stems from the post-doctoral artistic research project called xeno/exo/astro -choreoreadings, conducted from 2021 to 2023 in the Performing Arts Research Centre, Theatre Academy, University of ...