The ethical role of public arts and literature in the multicultural society

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24652064
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: TORAIWA Naoko 明治大学, 政治経済学部, 教授 (50227667)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 視覚文化と文学 / パブリック・アート / Sinead Morrissey / 北アイルランド / 芸術と倫理 / パララックス / ヘテロトピア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project dealt with the ethical roles of visual art works and literature in contemporary divided societies. This project mainly examined a Northern Irish poet, Sinead Morrissey’s work. Morrissey’s poems have consistently shown a strong engagement with space and place, and viewing. The intersection of place/space and viewing is reflected by visual art-works, especially spatial ones, such as public arts, which themselves are created for the purpose of inviting views, and the issues of space and viewing come into relief when the subject of the work is related to space/place. Reviewing visual art-works and city-scape in her poems, Morrissey suggests the space in-between or the process of being released from one occupation into another, which leads the reader to imagine a space which allows innumerable possibilities, not occupied by just one ideology.

Free Research Field

イギリス諸島の文学・文化