This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings. Refusing to pathologise loneliness, the book draws on the creative submissions supplied by its participants to demonstrate that being lonely can mean different things to different people in differing contexts. Filled with the photographs, paintings, videos, songs, and writings of its participants, The Loneliness Room is a deeply moving account of loneliness today.
Author(s): Sean Redmond
Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 248
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 The loneliness room: a creative ethnography of loneliness
2 Lonely emulsion: the loneliness in photography
3 Dim the lights: loneliness in cinema
4 Lonely realities: documenting loneliness
5 None but the lonely heart: the sounds of loneliness
6 Lonely words: writing loneliness in the post- digital age
7 A pandemic of creative loneliness
Conclusion: if nobody speaks of loneliness rooms
Appendices
References
Index
