Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics

✍ Scribed by Anne Hemkendreis; Anna-Sophie Jürgens

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the topography of Mount Athos, emphasizing the significance of silence and communal ritual in its understanding. Mount Athos, a mountainous peninsula in northern Greece, is a valuable case study of sacred topography, as it is one of the world’s largest monastic communities and an important pilgrimage destination. Its phenomenological examination highlights the importance of embodiment in the experience of religious places. Combining interdisciplinary insights from architectural theory, philosophy, theology and anthropology with archival and ethnographic materials, the book brings a fresh contribution to both Athonite studies and scholarship on sacred space. By focusing on the interrelation between silence and communal ritual, it offers an alternative to the traditional art historical, objectifying approaches. It reintroduces the phenomenological understanding of place, investigating also how this is expressed through a number of narratives, such as travel literature, maps and diaries.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Praise for Communicating Ice Through Popular Art and Aesthetics
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Staging Ice and Ice Stages in Science, Science Communication and Aesthetic Experience
Communicating Loss: Ice Research, Popular Art and Aesthetics: Introduction
Communicating With, and About, Ice
Environmental Activism and the Sublime
Communicating Ice and Urgency in Popular Fiction
About This Book
Research Context and Frame: Ice in Arts, Science and Popular Aesthetics
Chapter Overview
Bibliography
Ice Stages and Staging Ice
Introduction
Ice Stage and Ice Stages
The Ice Stage in Crisis
Future Ice Staging
Bibliography
Movies on Ice: An ArtSci Perspective on Communicating Antarctic Ice in the Climate Emergency
Climate Emergency and the Next Generation
Art-Science Collaboration
Movies on Ice
Representing What Lies Beneath
Discussion
Bibliography
Here Be Science Show Dragons: Ice, Icons and Metaphoric Approaches to Climate Change Communication
Introduction
Science Shows: Affect, Inspiration and Icy Origins
Ice in Contemporary Science Shows
Using Science Shows to Communicate Climate Change
Making Meaning and Revealing Relevance: Framing, Icons and Cultural Nuance
Ice and Other Climate Change Metaphors
In Conclusion
Bibliography
Ice Exploration: Heroism, Art and Imaginaries
Ethnography as Racialised Womanhood in the Arctic Writings of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary
Introduction
Gendering the Tropes of Arctic Exploration
The Home as an Observatory
Colonial Constructions of Ice
Conclusion
Bibliography
Materiality of Time: Polar Ice as a Medium for Ecological Art for the Tempered Zones
Ice as a Medium in Climate Aesthetics and Icy Imaginaries
Ice as a Medium in Art and as Real-Time System
Artistic Travellers Bringing Icy Experiences to the Temperate Zones
Bringing Art to the Pole: The Antarctic Biennale
Taking Critical Care of Icy Imaginaries
Bibliography
Sensing Polar Ice Bodies
Epilogue
Bibliography
Antarctic Science on the Musical Stage
The ‘Science Musical’: A Neglected Genre
Antarctica on Stage
Writing and Staging a Popular Antarctic Musical
Music and the Antarctic Setting
Singing About Science
New Science Questions for Antarctica
An Evolving Performance
Bibliography
Icy Love: Performing Affect and Emotion Feeling About Climate Change
Emotionally Evocative
Ethics of Wonder
Legs on Ice
Prosodies of Love
Bibliography
Pop Cultural Meanings of Ice in Visual Fiction and Film
Frozen Balloons: Aeronautic Heroism and Scientific Knowledge Production
Aeronautic Research on Ice and Ecological Awareness
Icy Spectacles and Aerial Heroism
Ice as a Tool for Knowledge Production and Its Threat
Physical Witnessing and Ice Phenomenology
Bibliography
Hard Ice, Soft Snow? Transnationalism, Spectatorship and the Arctic Sublime in Chasing Ice (2011) and Silent Snow (2011)
Reinventing the Arctic Sublime in the Twenty-First Century
Chasing Ice: Masculinity, Spectacle and the Photographer-Explorer
The Poetics and Geopolitics of Snow and Ice
Silent Snow: Planetary Entanglements and Transnational Networks
Conclusion: Rethinking the Arctic Sublime in the Anthropocene
Bibliography
Frozen-Ground Cartoons—Revealing the Invisible Ice
Prologue
The World of Underground Ice
Permafrost Science Communication: Frozen-Ground Cartoons
An Ice Scientist’s Perspective on Arts and Aesthetics
Epilogue
Bibliography
On the Visual Narratives of Ice in Popular Culture: Comics on Ice, Icy Villains and Ice Science
“Allow me to break the ice”: Visual Fictions of Frozen Water and Science in Popular Narratives
Comics on Ice
What’s Chilling? Exploring Ice Themes in Two Contemporary French Comics: Période glaciare and La Caverne du Pont d’Arc
Wh(Ice)?
Icy Villains in Comics and their (Pseudo-)Ice Science in the DC and Marvel Universes
DC Ice Villains
Marvel Comics and Norse Mythology
“Let’s kick some ice!”—On the Visual Narratives of Ice and ‘Ice Science’
Bibliography
Melt for Me: Communicating Ice Empathy Through the Plasticity of Disney
Disney on Ice
The Plasmascope, a Popular Ice-Human Interface
Melt for Me
Animating Olaf
Bibliography
On the Aesthetic Facets of Ice Urgency: Some Final Reflections
Communication, Art and Action: Behavioural Change Through (Experienced) Aesthetics?
Looking Behind the Scenes: Into the Eco-emotional Pedagogy of Ice?
Bibliography
Index