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IN/VISIBLE GEOGRAPHIES: ABSENCE, EMERGENCE, PRESENCE, AND THE FINE ART OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
Author(s) -
BAIN ALISON L.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2004.00318.x
Subject(s) - invisibility , identity (music) , articulation (sociology) , negotiation , visibility , context (archaeology) , reading (process) , sociology , identity negotiation , aesthetics , visual arts , gender studies , art , history , geography , political science , social science , politics , archaeology , law , computer science , artificial intelligence , meteorology
In this paper I draw on interviews with professional visual artists in Toronto, Canada to reconstruct an occupation‐specific reading of the urban landscape. I use a detailed examination of one specific occupational identity to reveal the intricate relationship between self, work, and context at different spatial scales. The underlying mechanism that supports the articulation and negotiation of artistic identities, I argue, is the sustained tension between absence and presence, visibility and invisibility within different spaces of the urban fabric.