Challenge in artistic flow experiences: an interdisciplinary intervention

Abstract

This paper explores the psychological phenomenon of flow through a nonrepresentational geographical emphasis on material practices. Both the positivity and skillschallenge balance assumed to characterise flow are brought into question by the challenge and negative feelings arising from material aspects of artistic practice. This challenge appears to be localised around a pivotal point in the emergence of the artwork, and essential for both successful completion of the artwork and experience of flow. This localisation is conceived as a period of chimerical instability in the ontological status of the artwork, during which the artwork is more than a series of marks but not yet a finished work, and a zone of indiscernibility concerning when activity should cease. Particular features of material practiceheterotechnicity or cooperative framework, and heterochrony or magnification of effects from small scale changes-provide a means of rethinking the skills-challenge relationship in artistic flow experiences.

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