Rest/unrest: Notes on loitering
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Master's thesis
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2019
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Mcode
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Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art
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ViCCA
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en
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300
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Rest/Unrest: Notes on Loitering is an inquiry into loitering– within public as well as in private. The streets hold the possibility of being a hegemonic site where power is exerted, expressed, and challenged, thus, making it a fertile ground of study where anonymity meets identity. The thesis looks at public and social spaces as contact zones that contain within them motifs that are intertwined with aspects within society that produce and reproduce those patterns into other domains such as work and leisure. The text focuses its lens on loitering, or hanging about while supposedly doing nothing, as a singular tool of resistance for collectives as well as for individuals. The argument for this is illustrated through the interweaving of three primary domains – loitering in India and Pakistan by women's collectives who are choosing the path of inaction to activate spaces denied to women, non-work within art as a challenge to hyper-production and the refusal of work/ anti-work within art and society. By drawing connections within these topics, Rest/Unrest: Notes on Loitering investigates the fragile relationship between bodily autonomy, art and labour through pleasure politics as a form of resistance. Within the canon of dissent and personal autonomy, the text puts forth the proposal to reimagine how we have come to view loitering, and seek to reframe its position within societyDescription
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Ryynänen, MaxThesis advisor
Viren, EetuKeywords
loitering, resistance, women, public space, art, autonomy, labour