A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Professional patios, emotional studios : Locating social ties in European art residences
Authors: Basov Nikita, Muntanyola-Saura Dafne, Méndez Sergi, Nenko Oleksandra
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Poetics
Journal name in source: Poetics
Article number: 101869
Volume: 102
ISSN: 0304-422X
eISSN: 1872-7514
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101869
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101869
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/381276910
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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