The (Un)Capture of Cappanawalla : Vital Materiality and Collaborative Artistic Emergence
Smith, Timothy J. (2024)
Smith, Timothy J.
Aalto-yliopisto
2024
2670-2142
Smith, T. (2024). The (Un)Capture of Cappanawalla: Vital Materiality and Collaborative Artistic Emergence. Research in Arts and Education, 2024(2), 64–75. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.141657
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2024102286505
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2024102286505
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This visual essay recounts a photography excursion that unexpectedly evolved into a transformative artistic encounter on Cappanawalla mountain in rural Ireland. What started as a systematic and detached approach of photographic framing and capture, took on a dramatic shift toward an exertion of unknown forces disrupting the human role as artist-photographer. Various nonhuman actants exerted their vital materiality as thing-power forces and collaborators in the creation of images along Cappanawalla. This experience provoked a radical reframing of artistic creation as a distributive agency of authorship among the vital materiality, in which the human is just one creative actant among many.