What do we mean when we say that we are bored? Or when we find a subject boring? Contributors to On Boredom: Essays in Art & Writing, which include artists, art historians, psychoanalysts and a novelist, examine boredom in its manifold and uncertain reality. Each part of the book takes up a crucial moment in the history of boredom and presents it in a new light, taking the reader from the trials of the consulting room to the experience of hysteria in the nineteenth century. The book pays particular attention to boredom’s relationship with the sudden and rapid advances in technology that have occurred in recent decades, specifically technologies of communication, surveillance and automation.
On Boredom is idiosyncratic for its combination of image and text, and the artworks included in its pages – by Mathew Hale, Martin Creed and Susan Morris – help turn this volume into a material expression of boredom itself. It will appeal to readers in the fields of art history, literature, cultural studies and visual culture, from undergraduate students to professional artists working in new media.
Rye Dag Holmboe is
currently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UEA.
Susan Morris is an artist interested in the
relation between automatic drawing, writing and photography.
Rye Dag Holmboe & Susan Morris
Rye Dag Holmboe
Martin Creed
Susan Morris
Mathew Hale
Tom McCarthy
Margaret Iversen
Anouchka Grose
Josh Cohen
Briony Fer
Index
Format: Open Access PDF
51 colour illustrations
Copyright: © 2021
ISBN: 9781787359468
Publication: April 01, 2021
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