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Topology of Scrapbooking

Browsing Through a Space in Constant Transformation

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Abstract

The essay sheds light on the practice of scrapbooking promoting a spatial reflection. Topology is used as a tool for exploration and stimulates an investigation in terms of movement and morphological deformations. The topological references, along with three examples of artist scrapbooking, enable tangent reflections that depict a multifaceted contemporary scrapscape with profound design, cultural, and media value. Scrapbooking emerges as a metamorphic threshold practice between the private and the public, capable of empowering the ephemeral and questioning ever-moving constructions such as culture and identity, both visually and materially.


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Submitted: Nov. 2, 2022 | Published Dec. 21, 2022 | Language: en

Keywords Scrapbooking • Topology • Hudinilson Jr • Material culture • Ephemera • Scrapbook • Visual culture • Elise Storsveen • Eline Mugaas • Isa Genzken

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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-675-6/014


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