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Micro-Geographies of the Studio

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Edwardes provides an account of the creation of a studio in a shared household space. He maps the indeterminate thresholds of the studio through autobiographic accounts of the production of work, alongside three materialist and non-representational examples of theorising the studio. As an artist with an interest in the spaces in which art is made, the temporary annexation of part of a room for the production of a series of works provides a useful point from which to navigate the impositions and intersections of art making. Drawing on different articulations of mediation, intercession, and atmosphere, Edwardes describes the passage of materials and dispositions that cut through experiences of inside and outside.

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Edwardes, C. (2019). Micro-Geographies of the Studio. In: Boyd, C.P., Edwardes, C. (eds) Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5749-7_4

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