Trust Your Gut

Fleshing Out an Embodied Encounter with Nicola Grobler’s The Visitor Centre

Bibliographic Data

ID11417039
AuthorsJenni Lauwrens (0000-0002-0336-7356, University of Pretoria, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume32
Issue2
Pages83-99
Publication date2018-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Arts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02560046.2018.1434219
OpenAlexW2803503771
LanguageEN
References cited26

In various disciplines concerned with the perception of images the embodied nature of image encounters is increasingly receiving attention. A common premise in such investigations is that people’s embodied responses to images ought to be critically investigated owing to their previous neglect in academic discourses. The under-theorised and developing field of ecological art is uniquely suited to analysis from this perspective. By way of a body- centred interpretative paradigm, this article analyses Nicola Grobler’s The Visitor Centre (2015) in order to show how this ecological artwork “works” on viewers at a somatic level. This approach reveals how the video awakens awareness of human interventions in nature leading viewers to recognise their ethical responsibility to the environment by appealing to their “gut feelings.”

Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feeling · Field (mathematics · Neglect · Perception · Perspective (graphical · Premise · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Visitor pattern · Visual arts · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Computer Science · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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