Tag: art

Behnam Raeesian is an Iranian visual artist and poster designer working at the intersection of political urgency and symbolic minimalism. His BREAD AND FOOTBALL is a critical poster series that examines football as a global spectacle shaped by power, distraction, and controlled emotion. Through seven minimal visual metaphors, the project questions how the World Cup can move beyond sport and become a mechanism of mass attention: a beautiful trap, a ritual of applause, a toxic atmosphere, a controlled signal, and finally, a diversion that silences other urgent realities.

We are calling for contributions to a special issue of the journal dedicated to the work of our research network on the relationship between sport and the arts.

Exceptional Life Courses: Elite Athletes and Successful Artists in 2000s Finland is a study by Mikko Salasuo, Mikko Piispa & Helena Huhta for the Finnish Youth Research Society, in which the life courses of athletes and artists are studied in parallel. The book will be reviewed on this site later; meanwhile this is brief summary with a link to a free-of-charge e-book.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has awarded a grant to establish a research network that will produce a declaration/manifesto on Sport in the Arts, the Arts in Sport. We have now organised a seminar program to help us move towards that goal and would like to invite you to attend these events.

To mark the ongoing exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport, we are teaming up to present a one-day conference on Scottish sport’s historic and contemporary relationship with the arts, broadly defined.