Experiencing art from a field of rice: How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival
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Experiencing art from a field of rice : How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival. / Leung, Kei Yan; Thorsen, Line Marie.
In: Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 62, No. 3, 07.2022, p. 611-631.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Experiencing art from a field of rice
T2 - How farmers relate to rural revitalisation and art at Japan's Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival
AU - Leung, Kei Yan
AU - Thorsen, Line Marie
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society for Rural Sociology.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Focusing on the Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival (ETAF) in Niigata, Japan, we propose a novel conceptualisation of the role of art in rural revitalisation, focused on how local farmers experience art as a catalyst for social, cultural and natural change. Scholarship on the role of art in rural revitalisation has often focussed on arts’ problem-solving affordances (e.g., economic, demographic) or on how rural engagements matter to art development. Instead, we turn our attention to the middle-ground: how art intervenes in the everyday life and practices of farmers in the festival area. Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, our analysis draws on the theories of Tsurumi Shunsuke and John Dewey to offer a broad and inclusive notion of ‘art’ and ‘aesthetic experience’. With this framework, we explore how farmers relate to different artworks presented at ETAF and how art can spur farmers to reflect on their lives, their farming and the environments they inhabit.
AB - Focusing on the Echigo-Tsumari Art Festival (ETAF) in Niigata, Japan, we propose a novel conceptualisation of the role of art in rural revitalisation, focused on how local farmers experience art as a catalyst for social, cultural and natural change. Scholarship on the role of art in rural revitalisation has often focussed on arts’ problem-solving affordances (e.g., economic, demographic) or on how rural engagements matter to art development. Instead, we turn our attention to the middle-ground: how art intervenes in the everyday life and practices of farmers in the festival area. Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, our analysis draws on the theories of Tsurumi Shunsuke and John Dewey to offer a broad and inclusive notion of ‘art’ and ‘aesthetic experience’. With this framework, we explore how farmers relate to different artworks presented at ETAF and how art can spur farmers to reflect on their lives, their farming and the environments they inhabit.
KW - art
KW - Echigo Tsumari Art Festival
KW - farming
KW - Japan
KW - rural revitalisation
U2 - 10.1111/soru.12379
DO - 10.1111/soru.12379
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85131437016
VL - 62
SP - 611
EP - 631
JO - Sociologia Ruralis
JF - Sociologia Ruralis
SN - 0038-0199
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 339145026