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Professional patios, emotional studios : Locating social ties in European art residences




AuthorsBasov Nikita, Muntanyola-Saura Dafne, Méndez Sergi, Nenko Oleksandra

PublisherElsevier

Publication year2024

JournalPoetics

Journal name in sourcePoetics

Article number101869

Volume102

ISSN0304-422X

eISSN1872-7514

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101869

Web address https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101869

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/381276910


Abstract

To foster creativity through sociality, residences put artists together. At the same time, in their quest for originality, artists often opt for individualism. Little is known on how physical collocation in residences affects artistic sociality. Addressing this gap, we draw on a combination of interviews, observations, and surveys, analysed with an innovative mixture of abductive coding, computational space analysis, and statistical network modeling. This allows us to unveil how room sharing and object usage relate to friendships and collaborations between residents. Along with explicit individualism of artists, we spot plenty of social ties between them. And these ties are positively related to joint material embeddedness. Simultaneously, the two main types of residential zones – working studios and leisure areas – appear to encourage the types of social ties inverse to our expectations. Our findings inform the practice of artistic residence organising and the proposed approach enables explanatory analysis of the relation between material space and sociality in various settings.


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