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) ...

Performing with plants might seem peripheral to the core concerns of visual, performance, or media art. Due to the climate crisis and the debates regarding post-humanities, this marginal interest in vegetation, and especially ...

In recent decades, there has been a shift both in semiotics and in cognitive science to novel, perhaps more flexible currents of research. This applies to semiotic and cognitive musicology as well, and raises interest ...

The chapter examines a one-person Nomadic Scenography (2020) research project that focused on the phenomenon of distance as a starting point for scenographic expression and on wandering as a place for making a scenography. ...