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The Pleasures We Choose by Jos Bos; Mel Y. Chen; Rosalyn D'Mello; Satu Herrala; Jesal Kapadia; Pia Lindman; Hardeep Mann; Sanni Purhonen; Vidha Saumya; Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Pleasures We Choose about?

The freedom to pursue pleasure is not afforded to all. Many are conditioned to labor on behalf of causes assumed to be more purposeful or fruitful than art in order to keep the world turning and bread in our bellies. We are often told that art is an act of indulgence, but never a matter of necessity; only if we work hard enough to afford these leisurely pursuits are we deserving of their affordances. But what if our bodies need art? What if imagining, making and encountering art is the only way for us to survive this world, to make sense of it and to reconstruct it? What if all that gets stored in the thick of our flesh as a result of inhabiting so many toxic territories, generation after generation, needs to be released and reclaimed through the ink of a pen, the point of a needle or the sculpting of clay? These are slow and often repetitive actions, enacted time after time, until they are entirely embodied. How might many more of us—until all of us—encourage and embolden one another to resist the pressures of time, labor and productivity exerted on our bodies and instead learn to more fully embody the pleasures we choose? This publication unfolds as a small space thick with mater

Author

Jos Bos; Mel Y. Chen; Rosalyn D'Mello; Satu Herrala; Jesal Kapadia; Pia Lindman; Hardeep Mann; Sanni Purhonen; Vidha Saumya; Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen

Publisher

Springer, Anna-Sophie. K. Verlag

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9783947858590