This experimental piece of writing serves as a phenomenological response to bathing represented in three examples of art and film: ‘On Being and Bathing’ (2021) by Abi Palmer and Anna Ulrikke Andersen; ‘Nude in the Bath and Small Dog’ (1941-1946) by Pierre Bonnard; and ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ (1975) by Chantal Akerman.
Citation:
Sharma, Jeremy . ''Three Acts of Bathing—an-other reading.'' Metode, vol. 2, 2024, ISBN / ISSN: 2704-0550.

This paper introduces critical elements in the substantial, albeit mostly unpublished, correspondence between cultural anthropologist Edward T. Hall and media theorist Marshall McLuhan related to artistic practice with emerging media technologies in the 1960s.

Identifying and describing major transformations of cultural diplomacy in the conditions of digitalisation and platformization, the chapter proposes a new typology of cultural diplomacy actors. Focusing on the roles they play in the global digital space and the power they can accumulate to exert impact, the chapter explores cultural diplomacy actors from the perspective of their involvement in the processes of digital cross-cultural communications.

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance, from the city-state governed Singapore Memory Project, to a national aggregator like Australia's Trove, to supranational digital heritage platforms, such as Europeana, to the global heritage aggregator, Google Arts & Culture.

The chapter discusses sustainable museum funding activities in the context of post-industrial economies. It explores these activities as driving factors that transform museums in the 21st century into dynamic actors of creative economy. The chapter argues that museums are increasingly adopting various ad hoc innovative funding strategies that enable them to generate self-earned revenue. They do it by (1) leveraging their collection’s assets, (2) integrating into the urban tourism economies, and even (3) monetizing their brands via franchising.

When setting a new strategy for their firm, managers engage in a range of sensegiving activities designed to introduce the new direction and explain the reasons for the change. These communication events commonly involve the use of strategic management terms and concepts to explain and justify the prescribed strategy. Literature thus far assumes that audiences understand and agree that these terms and underlying concepts are appropriate and relevant.

In the light of lockdowns, the authors’ Telepresence Stage research project (2021–22) developed effective, affordable approaches to connect theatre and dance performers from their separate homes and place them together within virtual sets online. Combining videoconference and chromakey technologies with virtual scenography, the performers are freed from Zoom-style walled boxes and are able to physically interact, including (virtually) hugging, kissing or fighting one another.

The chapter explores a film interpretation of T.S Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land which the author completed with  students and staff from LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. It analyses the dizzying array of choices and potentialities that came with translating the poem into a cinematographic form.

This article discusses the evolution of jazz guitar fingerings through three different approaches to navigating chord changes: vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. It explains the early limitations of vertical fingerings and how it was improved with the advent of the horizontal approach, evidenced in the jazz world by Pat Metheny in the 1970s. It also looks at how Kurt Rosenwinkel introduced diagonal fingerings to the broader jazz audience in the late 1990s. This article explains these three fingering styles and provides examples and a pedagogical guide for their study.

This case study explores the approach by LASALLE College of the Arts to blending digital and physical arts education in Singapore. Proving the institution’s adaptability during the pandemic, LASALLE successfully integrated digital learning platforms while preserving the immersive nature of arts education. Key initiatives include technology integration through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects, hybrid teaching methods and more recently, the exploration of generative AI as a collaborative tool.