Tactics against Antiquity
The Contemporary Ancient Messene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13014384 |
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| Authors | Marinos Koutsomichalis (0000-0002-3876-9064, Cyprus University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2051-3429 • E-ISSN: 2051-3437 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jca.20009 |
| OpenAlex | W4289533707 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
This essay outlines an empirical endeavour pivoting on the contemporaneity of the ruins of ancient Messene (Greece) by means of an eclectic method and in a situated artistic context. Drawing inspiration from the “peripatetic” tradition, the project concerns a technologically mediated soundwalk through the ruins which foregrounds Messene (a) as a place that is practised sociopolitically in the present as a way to generate cultural and historical content, and (b) as a vibrant habitat that hosts a wide range of entwined beings, things, energies and phenomena. A mixed method focused on technologies for mediation and the researcher’s body as the centre of the project’s inquiry is proposed, so as to produce an experience that is evocative of an emergent multitemporality specific to this place while also making accessible to the senses the plurality of objects and geophysical phenomena that manifest at the site. The project is contextualised with respect to experimental, creative, performative and “punk” archaeology, as well as to object-oriented and new materialist trends. It presents the resulting narrative, discusses how it relates to various sociopolitical/historical contexts and details the method and its constituent elements. The provided illustrations document the composed soundwalk and the creative tactics at play
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Materialism · Mediation · Narrative · Object (grammar · Performative utterance · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies
Dark Ecology
Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing
A Preponderance of Power
Modern Greece
The contemporary dérive
Beyond Art/Archaeology
Towards a Post-Anthropocentric Speculative Archaeology (through Design)
Buildings Archaeology Without Recording
Four Archaeological Engagements With Place Mediating Bodily Experience Through Peripatetic Video
Walking as an Aesthetic Practice and a Critical Tool
Les premiers voyageurs à Messène
Small Things Forgotten Now Included, or What Else Do Things Deserve
Archaeology
Punk, DIY, and Anarchy in Archaeological Thought and Practice
Archaeologies of Emergent Presents and Futures
I'll give you 'punk archaeology', sunshine
DIY and digital archaeology
Theory adrift
Vision, Media, Noise and the Percolation of Time
Materials against materiality
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