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SUMMARY:Flow Art\, Space and Wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:Flow Art\, Space and Wellbeing \nDr Heta Mulari\, Tampere University\, heta.mulari@tuni.fi\nMA Maaria Hartman\, Tampere University\, maaria.hartman@tuni.fi \nZoom link: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/97532199773?pwd=TG41bUxLUGNWNzNpNDJwNzRXdnp5dz09 \n“You learn to see the world as a playground. Instead of everyone trying to guide us to follow certain routes. What if you just break the rules\, go all over the place\, and do handstands in a weird place?” Luna 24 yo \n“Yep\, I feel that there’s a will to spread that kind of state of mind\, a way of thinking that we’re all equal. And that it’s important to respect life and other people\, it is visible there.” Linda 34 yo \n  \nHow is flow art used to playfully challenge and rethink urban and rural spaces? What kind of communities are built around the artform? And further\, how is ‘flow’ linked to creating individual and collective wellbeing? \nThis presentation will provide an understanding of how Finnish flow art communities occupy and transform different urban and rural spaces with the means of their embodied and collective art. These creative and situational take-overs include\, for example\, park rehearsals\, demonstrations\, forest festivals and planned as well as spontaneous performances. Further\, flow art is deeply connected to community building and creating wellbeing. \nWe understand flow art as an embodied\, movement-based art discipline\, which makes use of several props familiar from circus\, such as sticks\, fans\, hoops\, and poi. Flow art is closely intertwined into music\, especially rave\, psychedelic trance and electronic music in general. Further\, the communities shared an understanding of the importance of achieving a state of flow (Csikszentmihalyi 1990)\, through constant interaction between the prop\, movement\, music\, and one’s own body. They frequently linked ‘flow’ to\, not only personal wellbeing but critical potential for wider change\, including positive impact on communities and the society (Helne 2021; Vasileva & Honkatukia 2022). \nThe presentation is based on ethnographic fieldwork in flow art communities including participatory observation and interviews with the flow artists. The participants of the research are young adults and adults\, many of whom are active performers in led and fire art groups. In terms of theory\, the presentation is located at the intersection of urban studies (Lefebvre 1974/1991; Georgiou 2013; Tani & Pyyry 2017)\, performance studies and studies connected with art in urban spaces (see\, e.g. Meehan et al 2021; Järviluoma et al 2021) and studies on wellbeing in contemporary societies (Helne 2021; Vasileva & Honkatukia 2022). \nDr Heta Mulari is a post-doctoral researcher at the Unit of Social Research\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Tampere University\, Finland. She is currently working in the research project Into the Flow (2021-2023)\, funded by the Kone Foundation\, which focuses on flow art in Finland from the perspectives of space\, community\, and subculture. Mulari’s current research interests include youth and subculture studies\, circus studies\, urban studies\, and feminist ethnography. She is co-editor of Nordic Girlhoods – New Perspectives and Outlooks\, Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017 (with Bodil Formark and Myry Voipio). Her publications also include: ‘Emotional encounters and young feminine choreographies in the Helsinki Metro’\, Girlhood Studies\, 2020; and ‘“Everyone here is willing to teach each other”: Negotiations over hippie culture and resistance in Helsinki-based flow art community’\, Journal of Youth Studies\, 2021. \nMA Maaria Hartman is a project researcher at the Unit of Social Research\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, Tampere University\, Finland. She is currently working in the research project Into the Flow (2021-2023)\, funded by the Kone Foundation\, which focuses on flow art in Finland from the perspectives of space\, community\, and subculture. Hartman’s previous research include\, for example\, a research on young peoples’ art experiences (‘Young people’s experiences of art visits and cultural participation in the Art testers campaign’\, Finnish Youth Research Society\, 2020\, Sofia Laine & Maaria Hartman). Hartman’s current research interests include feminist ethnography\, subcultural art and folklore\, alternative sports\, ways of resistance and different ways of living youth and adulthood/.
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/flow-art-space-and-wellbeing/
LOCATION:THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room\, Hardiman Research Building\, University of Galway & online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Irish Studies Seminar Series: “We were convinced that we would be cowboys when we grew up”
DESCRIPTION:Irish Studies Seminar Series  \nSemester 1\, 2023-24 (in person and on zoom)  \nWe are delighted to invite you to the first seminar of our Irish Studies Seminar Series for this academic year\, and to welcome back Dr Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna who will speak on his new IRC postdoctoral research project\, at 4pm Thursday 12th October\, Seminar Room\, Centre for Irish Studies\, School of Geography\, Archaeology and Irish Studies\, 4 Distillery Road\, University of Galway. \nThe title of Dr Mathúna’s paper is\, “We were convinced that we would be cowboys when we grew up”: Consuming the American West in Ireland\, 1922-2022\, and in this seminar he will explore many of the core themes associated with his wider project\, while also discussing source works and relaying some early research findings to date. Please see further details below. \nAs an update for our Irish Studies community of scholars at home and overseas\, all of our Irish Studies Seminars will be run this year as hybrid events. And while we are delighted to welcome you to join us in person here on campus\, we are particularly delighted to have those of you who may be unable to travel to Galway to join us in our zoom room on the day. Please find the zoom link for the seminar here: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96178601570 \nSeminar Abstract:  \nThe mass consumption and reception of the popular culture of the American West began in Ireland almost simultaneously with its rise in the US during the mid-nineteenth century. These early interests grew exponentially over the course of the twentieth century\, bearing major influence on Irish conceptions of race and gender\, even as other forms of American mass culture like jazz were shunned as being subversive. American Western shows\, literature\, music\, films\, and games were readily absorbed into the Irish mainstream\, and in many instances\, fused with Irish culture to create radical new transnational forms in both Irish and English. The continued place of the American West within the Irish cultural landscape is evidenced by contemporary Irish western films and literature\, the prominence of TG4’s ‘weekly western’\, and the unavoidable popularity of Garth Brooks. \nUtilising the methodological frameworks of reception theory\, this is the first major study to trace the consumption of popular American Western culture in Ireland from the post-independence period to the ever changing\, and increasingly multicultural\, society of today. Owing to the complexities of Ireland’s colonial past and the continued conflict on the island during the twentieth century\, the reception of American Western culture differed significantly from other societies\, offering unique perspectives on narratives of violence\, masculinities\, displacement\, and power. More recently\, consumption of the “new” or “post-western” has helped shape views on environmental and cultural conservation in the Irish West. \nDr. Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Centre for Irish Studies\, School of Geography\, Archaeology and Irish Studies\, University of Galway (2023-25). For the past two years\, he served as a researcher on the Harvard-based Fionn Folklore Database. A former Fulbright scholar\, in 2021 he published a critical volume of the translated works of Irish language writer Eoin Ua Cathail with UNT Press\, entitled Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail. His next book\, The Fenian Empire: Irish Republicanism and American Expansion\, 1865-71\, is due for release with NYU Press in 2024. \n 
URL:https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/irish-studies-seminar-series-we-were-convinced-that-we-would-be-cowboys-when-we-grew-up/
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Centre for Irish Studies\, School of Geography\, Archaeology and Irish Studies\, 4 Distillery Road\, University of Galway & online via Zoom
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