Full Description
In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with 'innovation' in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement
Maruška Svašek
Chapter 1. African Lace: Agency and Transcontinental Interaction in Textile Design
Barbara Plankensteiner
Chapter 2. Heads against Hands and Hierarchies of Creativity
Tereza Kuldova
Chapter 3. The Social Life of Kottan Baskets
Kala Shreen
Chapter 4. Art and the Making of the Creative City of Chennai, India
Amit Desai
Chapter 5. Approximation as Interpretive Appropriation
Arnd Schneider
Chapter 6. Positioned Creativity
Øivind Fuglerud
Chapter 7. 'We paint our way and the Christian way together'
Fiona Magowan and Maria Øien
Chapter 8. Undoing Absence through Things
Maruška Svašek
Chapter 9. 'The Eye Likes It'
Stine Bruland
Chapter 10. Narratives, Movements, Objects
João Rickli
Chapter 11. The Art of Imitation
Rhoda Woets
Afterword
Birgit Meyer
Index
