{"id":340,"date":"2020-06-02T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/?p=340"},"modified":"2020-06-01T23:45:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T22:45:29","slug":"lockdown-fever-painting-across-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/happ\/2020\/06\/02\/lockdown-fever-painting-across-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Fever: Painting across Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Maru\u0161ka Sva\u0161ek<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Reader in Anthropology<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
28\/05\/2020<\/em><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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At the start of lockdown, having to miss out on life drawing sessions and driven by ongoing research into transnational family dynamics, communication technology and emotions (Sva\u0161ek 2007; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2018; 2020), I started using Skype and WhatsApp to paint relatives and friends in their home environments. I am a migrant myself, who moved in 1998 from the Netherlands to Northern Ireland to take up a position as anthropology lecturer at Queen\u2019s University Belfast. The act of painting across distance does not only offer the opportunity to spend time with distant people, but can also be used as innovative research method, resulting in insightful conversation and visual outcomes that can evoke\u00a0\u00a0further comments and exchanges. In addition, the material outcomes can be gifted and recontextualised in all kinds of displays, and create a new visual world that captures the affective movement between different locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Emotions and Globalisation\u2019, theme issue for\u00a0Identities. Global Studies in Culture and Power<\/em>\u00a0(eds M Sva\u0161ek and Z. Skrbi\u0161).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Who Cares? Emotional Interaction, Support and Ageing in Transnational Families.<\/em>\u00a0Report for Changing Ageing Partnership, Belfast: Queens University Belfast.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Who Cares. Families and Feelings in Movement\u2019 In: Robin Cohen and Gunvor Jonsson. (eds)\u00a0Migration and Culture<\/em>. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Pp 89-106.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Emotions and Human Mobility. Ethnographies of Movement<\/em>. London: Routledge. (ed.\u00a0
<\/strong>M. Sva\u0161ek).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Ageing Kin, Proximity and Distance. Translocal Relatedness as Affective Practice and Movement\u2019, in:\u00a0R\u00f6ttger-R\u00f6ssler, Birgitt and Jan Slaby (eds)\u00a0Affect in Relation. Families, Places, Technologies. Essays on Affectivity and Subject Formation in the 21th Century.<\/em>\u00a0London. Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Filmed conference presentation \u2018Materiality, Proximity and Distance: Covid-19, Mobility and People-Thing Dynamics\u2019, Digital conference \u2018Materializing the Transient\u2019, University of Goettingen, Germany. See:\u00a0https:\/\/materialitaet-migration.de\/en\/conference\/emotions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talking with my sister on Skype, April 2020\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A photograph on WhatsApp, sent by my brother from India, April 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A photograph of my neighbour on my mobile, April 2020. This is part of an ongoing game, started during the second week of lockdown. One of us takes a picture in our neighbourhood on her mobile, and the other person has to guess where it is, taking a photograph as proof that they have found it.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of my best friends in the Netherlands on Skype as we are chatting about craft and art. In the background one of the pictures she sent me of herself to my mobile phone, May 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unfinished painting of one of my Dutch cousins, painted during a WhatsApp video call, May 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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