Minna Valjakka
Biographic Data
| ID | 640561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minna Valjakka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minna |
| FAMILY NAME | Valjakka |
| SIGNATURE | VALJAKKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4331-040X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sound art and attentive listening to nature in Hong Kong: Retuning with ecology under the sonic turn
Contemporary sound practices in Hong Kong are often perceived primarily through their engagements within urban environments and human-produced sounds (anthrophony). While these elements are undeniably present, this article argues that sound art by Hong Kong-born or Hong Kong-based artists, is epistemologically, ontologically, and axiologically more deeply connected to nature than has been recognized. Through an ecocritical framework oriented to e…
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface
This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China with a focus on unseen representations and urban interventions brought about by the transformations of the urban space and the various problems associated with it. Through a wide range of illuminating case studies, the authors demonstrate how innovative artistic and creative practices initiated…
Introduction: Shifting undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia
Taking ‘underground(s)’ as the conceptual point of departure, the authors in this Special Issue investigate the socio-political, cultural and ideological dynamics of ‘cultural undergrounds’ across cities in East and Southeast Asia. Through critical analysis of changing conditions, frameworks, (mis)representations and self- and counter-definitions, we seek to build towards a timely interdisciplinary discourse. Can ‘underground(s)’ survive, given t…
Affective paragrounds: Alternative envisionings through multidisciplinary contemporary arts in Singapore
The socio-political transformations of East and Southeast Asia, their direct impact on the changing norms of censorship, cultural and urban policies, and on growing surveillance have led people involved with the socially engaged artistic and creative practices to develop varied tactics and strategies to renegotiate the (im)material boundaries set for them. These mainly discursive, spatial, temporal and aesthetic forms of affective civic engagemen…
Co-authoring the space: The initial Lennon Wall Hong Kong in 2014 as socially engaged creativity
The versatile forms of artistic and creative practices sparked by social movements worldwide are not limited to artists’ intentional aims to create artworks. Instead, most of the mixed-method interventions usually emerge from citizens’ aspirations to support the cause. Drawing on de Certeau’s understanding on ‘the procedures of everyday creativity’ and the more recent studies of ‘vernacular creativity’, I propose further examination of ‘socially …
Worlding through gendering: Female agency, artistic practices and spatio-aesthetic dynamics in and for cities
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interfaces
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface
Negotiating spatial politics: Site-responsive urban art images in mainland China
Since the mid-1990s, growing urbanization has led to the rise of new forms, needs and sites for visual self-expression in urban public space in mainland China. Drawing on periods of intensive fieldwork in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong since 2006, this article suggests a new approach for examining the spatial politics of urban art images in China based on the concept of 'site responsiveness'. Inspired by discussions on site-specific an…
Urbanized interfaces: Visual arts in Chinese cities
In the past two decades, unparalleled urbanization in cities across mainland China has deeply affected and transformed Chinese visual arts. Critical artistic and creative examinations of the interfaces between urbanization, society, culture, arts and people in Chinese cities have produced a great variety of new visual forms and agencies. In this introductory essay, we argue that the complexities of reciprocal relationship between urbanization and…
Graffiti in China – Chinese Graffiti
This article focuses on the emergence of graffiti in Beijing and Shanghai as an intriguing part of the contemporary art scene. Approaching graffiti through the framework of visual culture and analyzing both the visual and social aspects of creating graffiti images, I argue that contemporary graffiti in these cities can be regarded primarily as creative self-expression emphasizing aesthetic intention and a renaming process, not as vandalism. Deriv…
Parodying Mao’s Image: Caricaturing in Contemporary Chinese Art
Although Chinese contemporary artists are often criticized for creating superficial works that parody Chairman Mao without any deeper meaning, the employment of parody is a far more complex phenomenon. Instead of being representatives of Jamesonian pastiche, many artists employ varying methods of trans-contextual parody to express their mixed and even controversial intentions and notions. With a detailed structural analysis of the art works, and …
Negotiating spatial politics: Site-responsive urban art images in mainland China
Since the mid-1990s, growing urbanization has led to the rise of new forms, needs and sites for visual self-expression in urban public space in mainland China. Drawing on periods of intensive fieldwork in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong since 2006, this article suggests a new approach for examining the spatial politics of urban art images in China based on the concept of 'site responsiveness'. Inspired by discussions on site-specific an…
Graffiti in China – Chinese Graffiti
This article focuses on the emergence of graffiti in Beijing and Shanghai as an intriguing part of the contemporary art scene. Approaching graffiti through the framework of visual culture and analyzing both the visual and social aspects of creating graffiti images, I argue that contemporary graffiti in these cities can be regarded primarily as creative self-expression emphasizing aesthetic intention and a renaming process, not as vandalism. Deriv…
Urbanized interfaces: Visual arts in Chinese cities
In the past two decades, unparalleled urbanization in cities across mainland China has deeply affected and transformed Chinese visual arts. Critical artistic and creative examinations of the interfaces between urbanization, society, culture, arts and people in Chinese cities have produced a great variety of new visual forms and agencies. In this introductory essay, we argue that the complexities of reciprocal relationship between urbanization and…
Parodying Mao’s Image: Caricaturing in Contemporary Chinese Art
Although Chinese contemporary artists are often criticized for creating superficial works that parody Chairman Mao without any deeper meaning, the employment of parody is a far more complex phenomenon. Instead of being representatives of Jamesonian pastiche, many artists employ varying methods of trans-contextual parody to express their mixed and even controversial intentions and notions. With a detailed structural analysis of the art works, and …
Graffiti in China – Chinese Graffiti
This article focuses on the emergence of graffiti in Beijing and Shanghai as an intriguing part of the contemporary art scene. Approaching graffiti through the framework of visual culture and analyzing both the visual and social aspects of creating graffiti images, I argue that contemporary graffiti in these cities can be regarded primarily as creative self-expression emphasizing aesthetic intention and a renaming process, not as vandalism. Deriv…
Negotiating spatial politics: Site-responsive urban art images in mainland China
Since the mid-1990s, growing urbanization has led to the rise of new forms, needs and sites for visual self-expression in urban public space in mainland China. Drawing on periods of intensive fieldwork in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong since 2006, this article suggests a new approach for examining the spatial politics of urban art images in China based on the concept of 'site responsiveness'. Inspired by discussions on site-specific an…
Urbanized interfaces: Visual arts in Chinese cities
In the past two decades, unparalleled urbanization in cities across mainland China has deeply affected and transformed Chinese visual arts. Critical artistic and creative examinations of the interfaces between urbanization, society, culture, arts and people in Chinese cities have produced a great variety of new visual forms and agencies. In this introductory essay, we argue that the complexities of reciprocal relationship between urbanization and…
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interfaces
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface
Worlding through gendering: Female agency, artistic practices and spatio-aesthetic dynamics in and for cities
Co-authoring the space: The initial Lennon Wall Hong Kong in 2014 as socially engaged creativity
The versatile forms of artistic and creative practices sparked by social movements worldwide are not limited to artists’ intentional aims to create artworks. Instead, most of the mixed-method interventions usually emerge from citizens’ aspirations to support the cause. Drawing on de Certeau’s understanding on ‘the procedures of everyday creativity’ and the more recent studies of ‘vernacular creativity’, I propose further examination of ‘socially …
Introduction: Shifting undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia
Taking ‘underground(s)’ as the conceptual point of departure, the authors in this Special Issue investigate the socio-political, cultural and ideological dynamics of ‘cultural undergrounds’ across cities in East and Southeast Asia. Through critical analysis of changing conditions, frameworks, (mis)representations and self- and counter-definitions, we seek to build towards a timely interdisciplinary discourse. Can ‘underground(s)’ survive, given t…
Affective paragrounds: Alternative envisionings through multidisciplinary contemporary arts in Singapore
The socio-political transformations of East and Southeast Asia, their direct impact on the changing norms of censorship, cultural and urban policies, and on growing surveillance have led people involved with the socially engaged artistic and creative practices to develop varied tactics and strategies to renegotiate the (im)material boundaries set for them. These mainly discursive, spatial, temporal and aesthetic forms of affective civic engagemen…
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface
This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China with a focus on unseen representations and urban interventions brought about by the transformations of the urban space and the various problems associated with it. Through a wide range of illuminating case studies, the authors demonstrate how innovative artistic and creative practices initiated…
Sound art and attentive listening to nature in Hong Kong: Retuning with ecology under the sonic turn
Contemporary sound practices in Hong Kong are often perceived primarily through their engagements within urban environments and human-produced sounds (anthrophony). While these elements are undeniably present, this article argues that sound art by Hong Kong-born or Hong Kong-based artists, is epistemologically, ontologically, and axiologically more deeply connected to nature than has been recognized. Through an ecocritical framework oriented to e…
Sociology (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · The arts (7 works) · China (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works)