Interrelationships Between Sport and the Arts

Jonathan Long is an emeritus professor with the Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, UK. For over 40 years he has been researching the role that the many aspects of leisure have within society. His work has an emphasis on social justice and social change.Doug Sandle is a visiting research fellow, Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He was the instigator of the Fields of Vision initiative that led to a programme of events that over a decade explored the relationship between the arts and sport.

• 1. Investigating the interrelationships between sport and the arts 2. The aesthetics of sport and the arts: competing and complementary 3. New directions in the arts and sport? Critiquing national strategies 4. Participant experience in art- sport: Additive? Interactive? Transformative? 5. Subjectivity and temporality in literary narratives about sports 6. The art and artifice of early sports photography 7. The art of face- saving and culture- changing: sculpting Chinese football’s past, present and future 8. An exploration of running as metaphor, methodology, material through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale #r3fest 2016 9. Contemporary physical activities: the aesthetic justification 10. The crusade against ‘Foreigners’: the Romanian national football team through the eyes of a modernist writer 11. UrbanDig Project: sport practices and artistic interventions for co-creating urban space