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Knezevic, Nina. "Interpreting the autobiographical archive." Phd thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13893.
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Fletcher, Lauren Jean. "Adaptive realities : effects of merging physical and virtual entities." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018557.
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In the worlds of virtual reality, whole objects and bodies are created in an immaterial manner from lines, ratios and light pixels. When objects are created in this form they can easily be manipulated, edited, multiplied and deleted. In addition, technological advances in virtual reality development result in an increased merging of physical and virtual elements, creating spaces of mixed reality. This leads to interesting consequences where the physical environment and body, in a similar vein to the virtual, also becomes increasingly easier to manipulate, distort and change. Mixed realities thus enhance possibilities of a world of constantly changing landscapes and adjustable, interchangeable bodies. The notions of virtual and real coincide within this thesis, reflecting on a new version of reality that is overlapped and ever-present in its mixing of virtual and physical. These concepts are explored within my exhibition Immaterial - a creation of simulated nature encompassing a mix of natural and artificial, tangible and intangible. Within the exhibition space, I have created a scene of mixed reality, by merging elements of both a virtual and physical forest. This generates a magical space of new experiences that comes to life through the manipulated, edited, morphed and re-awakened bodies of trees.
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van, der Walt Jonathan Petra. "Craftsmanship in contemporary art: an exposition of selected artists’ practical non-involvement." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21285.
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Craftsmanship in contemporary art production is the main area of focus for this visual arts based research. An exploration into the artistic production processes of selected contemporary artists’ work, reveals a tendency of physical non-involvement on the part of the artist, who takes up the role of art director. The research enquiry attempts to provide an answer as to whether credit should be given to the craftsman as well as to the artist in this artist/craftsman relationship. The use of a practice-led research strategy allows the researcher’s art-making practice to become an integral part of the cycles of research, as the development of the researcher’s practical understanding, techniques and execution are crucial in the practical component, but also conceptually as a stance in opposition to the selected artists’ lack of practical involvement. The researcher has identified and analysed the following five factors that have contributed to this current state of art production in contemporary art: Kitsch as an influence on the subject matter and content of art, Marcel Duchamp and his idea of the ‘readymade’ and issues of authorship, Andy Warhol and his ideas on art and business, the Conceptual Art movement and, the act and product of craft being perceived as being inferior to the fine arts In addition, an exploration of the production processes involved in the creation of the artworks of Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan and Takashi Murakami highlights the craftspeople, fabricators and foundries that are responsible for these artists’ highly crafted aesthetics. As practice is crucial in developing a new understanding and meaning in visual-arts based research, the practical component describes the researcher’s core practical themes as being the following:the creation of naturalistic figurative small-scale sculptures in resin and bronze, placing the characters explored in the theoretical component as the subject matter.The advantages and disadvantages of the collaborative experience with Sculpture Casting Services (fine art foundry) and eNtsa (a Technology Innovation agency), especially the implementation of 3D technologies in both experiences; and the technical development and understanding in order to improve the researcher’s artistic practice Collaboration is an important underlying theme throughout this research undertaking. It is crucial in the production of most contemporary art, and assists in identifying the artist’s role within the production of his/her work. Finally, it relates to the researcher’s collaborative experience expanded upon in the practical component and its benefits as a production method. In concluding, the researcher finds that craftspeople do receive credit for the work they do in the form of money, business and marketing. They provide a service that a great number of artists generously support. Foundries and fabricators also place a mark on the work they do, much like the artist’s signature, as a symbol of pride and recognition. It is ultimately the artist’s technical abilities, workload and artist identity or brand that will determine the extent to which he or she will contribute to the collaboration, whether that be a simple idea, a sketch, a maquette or a large-scale sculpture ready for installation. However, in a rapidly advancing technological society, it is the idea of the artist as craftsman, both thinker and maker, that demands more respect.
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Williams, Court. "Sensitive skin." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28932.
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The work being considered for examination will be my gallery installation Affliction.
Consisting of approximately six hundred digitally printed and hand constructed three
dimensional models, it will be installed on the gallery floor as a part of the Postgraduate
Degree show at Sydney College of the Arts (Tuesday December 9th through to Wednesday
December 17th).
My masters project explores the isolation and dislocation experienced in the urban
environment and situates un-commissioned street art as a construct that potentially
generates modes of plurality through immediate encounter, collaboration and intervention.
My work explores the inter-activity of street art. This is done through a reading of Nicolas
Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics - a theory of art that takes as its theoretical horizon
the realm of human inter-actions in social spaces. 1 demonstrate the inter-activity of street
art through a discussion of my work as well as the work of three other street artists.
In doing so, 1 also draw attention to the virtual characteristics of the anonymous urban
environment by locating street art as a virtual representation of the art world, the street
artist as an avatar and the city surface as an online blog.
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Haines, David Sean. "Osmologies : towards aroma composition." Phd thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14423.
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Wise, Gianni Ian Media Arts College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Scenario House." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Media Arts, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/26230.
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Scenario House, a gallery based installation, is comprised of a room constructed as a ???family room??? within a domestic space, a television with a looped video work and a sound componant played through a 5.1 sound system. The paper is intended to give my work context in relation to the processes leading up to its completion. This is achieved through clarification of the basis for the installation including previous socio-political discourses within my art practice. It then focuses on ways that the installation Scenario House is based on gun practice facilities such as the Valhalla Shooting Club. Further it gives an explanation of the actual production, in context with other art practices. It was found that distinctions between ???war as a game??? and the actual event are being lost within ???simulation revenge scenarios??? where the borders distinguishing gaming violence, television violence and revenge scenarios are increasingly indefinable. War can then be viewed a spectacle where the actual event is lost in a simplified simulation. Scenario House as installation allows audience immersion through sound spatialisation and physical devices. Sound is achieved by design of a 5.1 system played through a domestic home theatre system. The physical design incorporates the dual aspect of a gun shooting club and a lounge room. Further a film loop is shown on the television monitor as part of the domestic space ??? it is non-narrative and semi-documentary in style. The film loop represents the mediation of the representation of fear where there is an exclusion of ???the other??? from the social body. When considering this installation it is important to note that politics and art need not be considered as representing two separate and permanent realities. Conversely there is a need to distance politicised art production from any direct political campaign work in so far as the notion of a campaign constitutes a fixed and inflexible space for intellectual and cultural production. Finally this paper expresses the need to maintain a critical openness to media cultures that dominate political discourse. Art practices such as those of Martha Rosler, Haacke and Paul McCarthy are presented as effective strategies for this form of production.
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Abdullah, Sarena. "Postmodernism in Malaysian art." Phd thesis, Department of Art History and Film Studies, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9457.
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Gawronski, Alex. "No new Utopia? : the crisis of art as critique under globalisation." Phd thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3967.
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Roche, Judith D. "The role of the artist at the beginning of the twenty-first century: An exploration of dialectical processes in art and science with particular reference to biologically based art." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2005. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1571.
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This thesis examines the role of the artist at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the interaction between art and science in an exploration of the dialectical processes that may occur in that interaction. Researchers have recently developed techniques in stem cell technology and genetic modification that offer remarkable potential and bring possible advantages and disadvantages for scientists and the wider community. In response to these new technologies, scientists and artists have developed collaborative projects and, in some instances, artists have moved from the studio to the science laboratory to create work called sci-art, bio-art, or moistmedia. This new inter-disciplinary activity affords prospects of dialectical processes: it crosses many boundaries and disturbs some existing conventions and practices, and, for the artists involved, the access to innovative materials has moved their work into areas of new skills and concepts. The extent to which traditional artists and those with collaborative sci-art practices contribute to the debate on important social and cultural issues forms part of this study. The research data was gathered during semi-structured interviews with scientists and artists, of whom three scientists and five artists are involved in sci-art collaborations. Proposed dialectical processes identified in the data are outlined throughout the document. A discussion about the ways in which contemporary art and artists are located within the current social and cultural environment; the status accorded visual art education today; and the manner in which commentators and other members of the public regard the elements and functions of art, forms the initial framework. This is followed by an overview of biologically based art practices, worldwide, that provides a background for a discussion of sci-art collaborations. These collaborations are initiated by a wide range of individuals and organisations and, according to the participants, the intentions of the originator or funding body have the potential to influence the outcome of the collaboration. The research explores possible conflicts of interest between the parties involved in these interactions, and any perceived implications for creative freedom. This study also examines current attitudes towards the notion of creativity in science and art, the avant-garde, and the relevance of philosophy and theory in art practices. It discusses the extent to which technology influences the creative process, and highlights issues that augment, interrogate or philosophise about the role of the contemporary artist. The research found that, although the notion of Snow’s ‘two cultures’ still has supporters, there are more similarities than dissimilarities between scientists and artists. Although some instances of Hegelian dialectical processes were identified, the data residing in many of the participants’ responses called for a more post-structuralist, non-linear approach to the dialectic as described by Jervis (1998), Janesick (2000) and others. In this way, the data drew attention to many complex issues and tensions that emanate from the interaction between art, science, technology, government and commerce, and the interaction between artists and the culture and society in which they live at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Wedderburn, Michael Roderick. "Living in the Shadow of death: purging the unconscious for the creation of a personal visual language." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/13250.
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This visual arts based research explores the autonomous process of mark-making from the unconscious for the sake of expressing inner turmoil that comes with ‘Living in the Shadow of Death series’ (2014). The manner by which emotions are, in a sense, naturally released in automatic drawing and painting underpin the basis of this research as part of the development of an expressive visual language. ‘Living in the Shadow of Death’ is definitively concerned with how an emotional predisposition, a severe case of unconscious aggression due to struggles with the illness of Marfan Syndrome comes to the surface naturally and is expressed visually. Essentially, this research aims to answer the main research question: How might the act of drawing convey the power and complexity of emotion through the exploration of autonomous mark-making with unconventional tools, mediums and methodologies? This research inquiry rests upon three important benefactors and influences: Illness, anatomy and unconventional tools. What is discussed is an interdisciplinary regime of theoretical and practical research into Surrealist Automatism and a progressive development of this methodology formed from the perspective and approach of a Marfan Syndrome sufferer. The research includes an analysis of Automatism in the works and practice of artists Roberto Matta, Joan Miro and Andre Masson and their influence on the working methods of Jackson Pollock. To this end, the contribution made by Jungian therapy to Pollock’s Action Painting technique and experimentation with unconventional methodologies is explored. Furthermore, the practice-led analysis and documentation of information gained on Surrealist Automatism aided development of working procedures and how this guided the creation of a body of works entitled ‘Living in the Shadow of Death’ is discussed. Ultimately, the content of this research expands the discourse on what constitutes drawing tools, media and format, and how suffering from Marfan Syndrome extended and amplified the expressive potential of Surrealist Automatism and Action Painting exemplified in the development of an innovative methodology known as ‘Anatomical Automatism’.
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Haviland, Maya. "Side by side? : practices of collaborative ethnography through creative arts." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109596.
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In this thesis I investigate collaborative ethnography through creative arts as a growing global field of practice, based on common influences from anthropology and contemporary art. I seek to understand the nature of this field and to critically examine some of the assumptions that we make as collaborative ethnography/art practitioners about our work as forms of collaboration and social change. Practices of collaborative ethnography through creative arts occur in diverse settings around the world and produce different creative forms such as books, films, photography and theatre. Despite this diversity they share similar ways of working, relationship dynamics and socio-political motivations. I examine the range of social and political agendas that are being furthered using collaborative ethno/art practices and consider the ways in which the motivations of project facilitators shape these agendas and the social relations surrounding projects.
The original contribution that this thesis makes is a critical examination of notions of authorship in collaborative ethnographic/arts practice and the flow of benefits from this kind of work over time. I use the recent history of conflict surrounding control of materials from the Archivo Fotogr{u1EA5}fico lnd{u1E2F}gena and the Chiapas Photography Project in Mexico as a major case study. This case illustrates that the social, organisational and economic dynamics surrounding collaborative production, and the reception of resulting works by audiences and markets, shape the ways in which authorship and creativity are being understood within collaborative ethnographic/art projects over time. I argue that although collaborative ethno/art practices are acts of co-creation the nature of co-creativity in these projects is frequently obscured by modernist preoccupations with individual authorship. The complexities and potential of co-creativity as a growing form of contemporary cultural creation risks being obscured and misunderstood by the focus on this concern.
Examining the social and organisational structures surrounding collaborative ethnographic/art projects, with a focus on the New Orleans based Neighborhood Story Project another major case study in my research, I argue that there is a professionalization of collaborative ethno/art practice occurring. The recent experiences of the Archivo Fotogr{u1EA5}fico lnd{u1E2F}gena reveal the institutional and organisational structures accompanying the professionalization of this kind of work risk reinforcing the very social and economic inequities that motivated the practices in the first place. The ways in which dynamics of control and flow of benefits from works created in collaborative ethno/art projects play out over time can inadvertently yet directly contradict the socio-political goals which motivated their original establishment.
My research methods included participatory research with a number of projects in Australia, the USA and Mexico; interviews with twenty-five project facilitators from a range of international projects; and examination of the works and histories of a number of long running projects, including the twenty-year history of Chiapas Photography Project in Mexico.
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Heymans, Simone. "Habitual transience : orientation and disorientation within non-places." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013141.
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This mini-thesis is a supporting document to the exhibition titled via: a phenomenological site-specific series of intermedia interventions and installations at the 1820 Settlers National Monument in Grahamstown. This mini-thesis examines ways in which one negotiates the movement of the self and interactions with others within the non-place. Non-places are ‘habitually transient’ spaces for passage, communication and consumption, often viewed from highways, vehicles, hotels, petrol stations, airports and supermarkets. Characteristic of these generic and somewhat homogenous spaces is the paradox of material excess and concurrent psychological lack where a feeling of disorientation and disconnection is established due to the excesses of Supermodernity: excess of the individual, time and space. The non-place is a contested space as it does not hold enough significance to be regarded as a place and yet, despite its banality, is necessary – and in many ways a privilege – in everyday living. I explore the concept of non-places in relation to the intricate notions of space and place, and draw on empirical research as a means to interrogate how one perceives the phenomenological qualities of one’s surroundings. I discuss the implications of the multiplication of the non-place in relation to globalisation, time–space compression, site-specific art and absentmindedness, as theoretical themes which underpin the practical component of my research. In addition, I situate my artistic practice in relation to other contemporary artists dealing with the non-place as a theme, and critically engage with the multi-disciplinary and sensory installations and video pieces of Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck.
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Ewin, Glenda. "Being and circumstance." Thesis, View thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/23387.
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This thesis culminates in an exhibition resulting from the artist’s investigation of the relationship between space and time, and on perception and experience of space with connections to ‘everyday’ ideas of space. A recurring link in this paper is the process of ‘being present’ in relation to spatial viewing. The artist’s studio practice focuses on the visual changes she sees within a particular space or spaces, and how these visual changes are perceived and experienced when presented to the viewer in a photographic image. The intention is to present a photographic image to the viewer that not only changes the space from which it originally came, but also highlights the beauty of the space that may be missed or overlooked. The research questions the way people see, the visual representation of the ‘void’ or ‘empty space’, and spatial representation. The paper also discusses how the artist visually perceives and experiences space. The work of other artists and writers who research space, time and perceptual consciousness are also considered.
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Willacy, Eric. "The search for "self" in a fragmented mind." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28928.
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The reason for making art goes beyond a desire to pictorially represent a chosen subject. The subject and the production methodology chosen to present it, are to art, what scaffolding is to a new building; a necessary means to an end, but to me at least, not an end in and of itself.
I contend that when we produce art, we instil into it some aspect of ourselves, a fragment of our psyche that we cannot describe. We know it only by its presence, which can only be detected through the nature of our response to visual or other sensory stimuli. This response is characterised through the way it makes us feel, yet the causal chain of these feelings is always absent.
This paper seeks to define the source of these emotional responses and to explain why we can have no cognition of the events that prompt them, and further, using the work of a range of artists, as well as my own, to ponder how this aspect of our personality becomes embedded in our art.
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Rauber, Rogério [UNESP]. "Do bagaço da pintura às pictocartografias." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/131959.
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Nesta dissertação descrevo as experiências da série O Bagaço da Pintura, que procuram responder ao problema da morte da arte e investigam a linguagem pictórica em campo expandido. No ambiente acadêmico, esta pesquisa abriu uma nova vertente poética, também aqui descrita e analisada: as Pictocartografias
In this dissertation I describe the experiences of series The Bagasse of the Painting, which seek to respond to the problem of the death of art and investigate the pictorial language in expanded field. In academic environment, this research has opened a new poetic dimension, also described and analyzed here: the Pictocartografias
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Rauber, Rogério 1960. "Do bagaço da pintura às pictocartografias /." São Paulo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/131959.
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Orientador: Rosangela da Silva LeoteBanca: Lucimar Bello Pereira Frange
Banca: José Paiani Spaniol
Resumo: Nesta dissertação descrevo as experiências da série O Bagaço da Pintura, que procuram responder ao problema da morte da arte e investigam a linguagem pictórica em campo expandido. No ambiente acadêmico, esta pesquisa abriu uma nova vertente poética, também aqui descrita e analisada: as Pictocartografias
Abstract: In this dissertation I describe the experiences of series The Bagasse of the Painting, which seek to respond to the problem of the death of art and investigate the pictorial language in expanded field. In academic environment, this research has opened a new poetic dimension, also described and analyzed here: the Pictocartografias
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Dawson, Louisa Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Moving house: the renovation of the everyday." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43084.
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This paper describes my research project and body of work, which investigates social inequalities through the different language and functions of everyday objects. The research moves on from my previous Honours research project on the dou ble nature of caravan parks in NSW and looked at the changing demographics of these locations. I noted the increase of semi-permanent, residential 'homes' for low income earners and the unemployed, in these holiday locations. This paper examines broader social issues of homelessness and social inequalities within our society. I look at the complexities in the definitions of homelessness and the ways in which people find themselves in the position where they rely on welfare agencies and government support. I also investigate different representations of homelessness by artists and other social commentators, ranging from the hopeless victim to the vagrant. This section locates my social concerns with the context of theoretical debate and artistic representation. I have used everyday and mundane objects in my artworks to discuss these social concerns. Everyday objects posses a language and commonality that is familiar to all members of society. This language is developed from the different historical, cultural and functional qualities that everyday objects possess. I discus this in relation to the development of the everyday object in artistic practices from the early 20th century to today. Of specifically importance to my practice is the influence of contemporary German artists and their manipulation of objects to make works with political and social content. Throughout this paper I have discussed individual art works which illustrate my social concerns and the practicalities of the everyday. Revealing how I juxtapose certain objects to question the uneven nature of travel and home, with regards to possessions and mobility. Additionally I challenge the normal functions of objects to reveal new absurd possibilities of use.
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Andres, Kelly Jaclynn, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Desiring machinations of Matertekhnologi." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2008, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/729.
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Desiring Machinations of Matertekhnologi is an Individualized Multidisciplinary thesis that synthesizes feminist frameworks with new media art to investigate the mediated body in relation to communications technology. The thesis illustrates contemporary, twenty-first century artists working with feminist strategies, the body, performance and technological media. Theoretical discussions are developed that imagine or suggest new forms of subjectivity that could be experienced through artistic appropriation of communicative, networked and technological media. These discussions include my studio investigations and unfold around the following themes: corporeal feminism, body-based philosophy, a subversion or manipulation of consumer technologies through intervention, appropriation and performance, the politics of space and location through networked interaction, and the mediated body in relation to communication technologies through a valorization of embodiment and the senses.vii, 161 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. --
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Albuquerque, Ricardo Bezerra de 1963. "Auké - A Ilha Invisível : pintura e dramaturgia /." São Paulo, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151137.
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Orientador: Sergio Mauro RomagnoloBanca: Lúcia Regina Vieira Romano
Banca: Joasé Paiani Spaniol
Banca: Rosa Gabriella de Castro Gonçalves
Banca: Alvaro Seixas
Resumo: O trabalho apresenta o processo de criação do texto dramatúrgico Auké - A Ilha Invisível e a produção pictórica criada especificamente para ele. O texto dramatúrgico discute os desdobramentos que a comunicação cria a partir do encontro entre personagens oriundos de mundos diferentes e os desentendimentos relacionais consequentes. O trabalho busca integrar a pintura com a dramaturgia teatral para compor uma nova sintaxe estética tanto visual quanto teatral a partir das afinidades e diferenças entre as duas linguagens. A tese aborda também a transformação da pintura ao estar nesse novo lugar que não é o espaço expositivo tradicional público e/ou privado. A pesquisa revela o processo de escrita do texto dramatúrgico e o resultado obtido dessa inter-relação com a pintura. Assim, a dramaturgia e a pintura ao se fundirem num propósito comum criam um campo conceitual e experimental que se desdobra em uma nova práxis artística.
The work presents the process of creation of the dramaturgic text Auké - A Ilha Invisível ( Auké - The Invisible Island) and the pictorial production specially created for it. The dramaturgic text discusses the unfolding ways that communication creates from the meeting of the characters coming from different worlds and the consequent quarrels in their relationship; The work aims at integrating the painting with theatrical dramaturgy to compose a new aesthetics syntax both visual as well as theatrical starting with the similarities and differences between the two languages. The thesis also approaches the transformation of picture by being in that new place which is not the private and or public traditional space for exhibition. The research reveals the process of writing the dramaturgic text and the result obtained out of that interrelation with the painting. Therefore, the dramaturgy and the painting when merging in a common purpose create a conceptual and experimental field that unfolds into a new artistic practice.
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Wasserman, Minke. "'Becoming animal': motifs of hybridity and liminality in fairy tales and selected contemporary artworks." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019759.
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‘Becoming Animal’: Motifs of Hybridity and Liminality in Fairy Tales and Selected Contemporary Artworks serves as a theoretical examination of the concept of the hybrid. My research unpacks the liminal aspect of hybridity, locating the hybrid in the imaginative world of popular fairy tales, folk lore and mythology. In my accompanying MFA exhibition, Becoming(s), I explore these motifs through an installation of mixed-media sculptures which are based on the hybrid creatures that populated the fantasy world of my childhood. The written component of my MFA submission will relate directly to my professional art practise, developing it further and situating it within a relevant context. In my mini-thesis I will consider the liminal in relation to the ‘animal turn’ in contemporary art, with a particular focus on relevant artists working with the motifs of hybridity, such as Nandipha Mntambo, Jane Alexander and Kiki Smith. The ‘animal turn’ is a term used by Kari Weil (2010: 3) to describe a contemporary interest in issues of the nonhuman, and in the ways that the relationship between humans and nonhumans is marked by “difference, otherness and power”. Of key concern to my research will be Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of ‘becoming animal’. Rather than describing a transition from one stable state to another, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a radical dissolution of boundaries – not just between species (such as ‘human’ and ‘animal’) but between any essentialising binaries. As such, ‘becoming animal’ suggests a conception of identity as being fluid and mutable, rather than stable and fixed.
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Morelatto, Felipe 1989. "Pintura e apropriação : a ação poética na interface entre o pessoal e coletivo /." São Paulo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/190954.
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Orientador(a): Sergio Mauro RomagnoloBanca: Agnaldo Valente Germano da Silva
Banca: Mônica Soares Tinoco Sanovicz
Resumo: Esta dissertação consiste numa análise de minha produção plástica preexistente do corpo de obras realizadas no período de dois anos do curso do mestrado. Esse estudo tem como foco um aprofundamento na investigação da apropriação de imagens prontas como procedimento artístico, tema extremamente relevante para produção artística atual, pois consiste como um dos eixos que norteiam a minha produção artística, já se fazendo presente em meus primeiros estudos e trabalhos artísticos, realizados desde a época da graduação. Para explorar todo esse panorama optei por focar no pensamento de críticos que se aprofundam no estudo dessas práticas como Douglas Crimp e Nicholas Bourriaud, bem como na obra de Marcel Duchamp e Andy Warhol, que são artistas que inauguram aspectos chave para esse contexto
Abstract: This dissertation consists of an analysis of my preexisting plastic production of the body of work done during the two years of the Master's degree course. This study focuses on deepening the investigation of the appropriation of ready-made images as an artistic procedure, witch is a extremely relevant theme for the current artistic production, and it also consists of the axes that guide my artistic production, and has been present since my first studies and artistic works as a graduate student. To explore this whole panorama, I have chosen to focus on the thinking of critics who delve deeper into the study of such practices as Douglas Crimp and Nicholas Bourriaud, as well as the work of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, who are artists who inaugurate key aspects of this context
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Behrens, Monika Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Silent bang." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42557.
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The research project uses still life as a means of exploring current events of violence and oppression. These events are represented through juxtaposing plastic toys with organic objects. The toys include a range of popular generic toys such as army men, cowboys and Indians and toy soldiers. The organic objects were selected for their relationship to the specific event being represented. The toys and organic objects were positioned to create interesting and logical compositions. Themes of the series include opposing objects and ideas pitched against each other such as plastic/organic, perpetrator/victim, violence/peacefulness and destruction/sustenance. Within each work the plastic toys take on the demeanor of the tyrant(s), whereas the organic objects adopt the role of the victim(s). The research project uses these themes to convey the message that violence is both a barbaric way of dealing with conflict and a senseless form of self-expression. I have used symbols and metaphors to build a visual language. For the language to be translated accurately a great deal of research has taken place into the appropriate still life objects for each work. Each work incorporates metaphors and or symbols for both the oppressor and victim within the event being represented. The studio outcome of this research project, Silent Bang, includes a series of highly detailed finished paintings of various scales. Silent Bang as a body of work is colourful and aims to be aesthetically pleasing in addition to conveying a powerful message that incites interpretation.
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Lima, Vera Ferreira 1967. "Espaços expositivos contemporâneos." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285317.
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Orientador: Mauricius Martins FarinaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta dissertação de mestrado busca identificar a configuração ideal dos espaços expositivos contemporâneos, mais especificamente museus, para exibição das criações artísticas realizadas a partir dos anos 1950. Durante o processo investigativo constatou-se a necessidade de, preliminarmente, conceituar esta tipologia arquitetônica para, na sequência, apresentar suas transformações ao longo dos anos, fruto da constante busca por adequar o continente ao conteúdo e a sociedade. Enfatizando que as produções artísticas foram as causadoras das diversas necessidades de alterações espaciais também foi dedicada uma parte da monografia para apresentação do experimentalismo existente no período de reflexão. Cabe ressaltar que as variações nos suportes artísticos criaram novos desafios para os arquitetos no desenvolvimento dos projetos de museus, além da contaminação do seu imaginário com uma gama de infinitas possibilidades criativas. Para a criação destes espaços, por vezes, devem-se ponderar demandas antagônicas tais como: grandes ou pequenas áreas, claridade ou escuridão, silêncio ou ruído, cores ou neutralidade. Com o propósito de melhor entender estas edificações foram analisadas três instituições que apresentam condições específicas para a exibição de arte contemporânea, destacando-se duas distintas exposições em cada para melhor avaliarmos a conformação dos espaços às atuais demandas
Abstract: This dissertation aims to identify the ideal contemporary exhibition space, specifically museums, for showing contemporary art produced since the 1950s. In the research process, we primarily conceptualize this architectural typology and then presented its historical development related to its adequacy to social and artistic alterations. Considering that exhibition spaces must be adequate to show the wide range of artistic creations we also dedicated a chapter to understand and analyze all that happened in arts universe during the period. It¿s necessary to highlight that artistic developments in addition to being a big challenge to architects design are also a huge inspiration, mainly due to presenting infinity new possibilities. To design these spaces sometimes one must deal with antagonist forces like: amplitude or cosines, clarity or darkness, silence or noise, colorful or neutral. In this dissertation three reckon contemporary art institutions were analyzed highlighting two different shows in each one. The objective was to study the space adequacy to the art it contained
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Garisch, Margaret Isabel. "Consuming pasts : imaging food as Identity and (post)memory in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018556.
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This mini-thesis interprets the convergence of food and memory and explores dialectical processes associating food, identity and (post)memory, particularly in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Considering works by prominent South African Artists Berni Searle and Churchill Madikida as well as my own artistic practise and usage of food as conceptual medium, this study considers the converging effects of food, identity and memory, together with the materiality of food, from a fine arts perspective, as particularly rich and developing arena for memory work
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Pereira, Adriana Camargo 1974. "Inhotim e sensorialidade : um estudo do corpo na arte contemporânea." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284628.
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Orientador: Maria de Fátima Morethy CoutoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta dissertação reflete sobre a necessidade de pensar, investigar e estudar o corpo na arte contemporânea. O local que se elegeu para abordar o objeto de estudo foi o Instituto Inhotim - Centro de Arte Contemporânea, que se encontra em Brumadinho - MG. O texto está dividido em quatro capítulos. O primeiro capítulo busca compreender de quais corpos se está tratando, das suas especificidades, dos seus entrelugares e de que forma esses corpos se manifestam na arte contemporânea. O segundo capítulo aborda a discussão do corpo, seus reflexos e sua duplicidade segundo as instalações das artistas Valeska Soares e Yayoi Kusama. No terceiro capítulo, trava-se uma discussão entre os artistas e as respectivas obras de Matthew Barney e Tunga, onde o corpo se coloca em constantes questionamentos e diálogos entre o híbrido e o metamorfoseado. E no quarto e último capítulo, referendam-se questões acerca do corpo e da tecnologia onde novas geografias sonoras e audiovisuais são pensadas e executadas como forma de incorporar os dispositivos e os meios eletrônicos quase inseparáveis e indispensáveis para os indivíduos, hoje, no espaço da arte e como prolongamento do corpo; para tanto foram selecionados o casal Cardiff & Miller e o artista Doug Aitken
Abstract: This essay shows the need that one has to think, investigate and study the body in contemporary art. Inhotim Institute - Center of Contemporary Art, located at Brumadinho - MG was the chosen place for this thesis. The text has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter searches to understand which bodies are being discussed; their specificities, their "in-between-places" and most of all how these bodies are manifested in contemporary art. The second chapter addresses the discussion of the body, its reactions and its duplicity; all in accordance with the installations of the artists Valeska Soares and Yayoi Kusama. The third chapter welcomes you into a debate between the artists Matthew Barney and Tunga, and their works. Where the body is put into questioning, and an open dialogue surges between the hybrid and the modified. The fourth and final chapter indorses questions about body and technology; where the new sound and audiovisual characteristics are thought and executed as a way to integrate gadgets and electronic media. Showing that it could become almost an inseparable and indispensable tool for anybody in today's art; where art is an extension of the body; for this, I've selected the couple Cardiff & Miller and the artist Doug Aitken
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Válio, Luciana Benetti Marques 1978. "Renata Lucas e os espaços públicos : intrincamento e fissura." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285212.
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Orientador: Maria José de Azevedo MarcondesTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Pretende-se na tese "Renata Lucas e os espaços públicos: intrincamento e fissura" discutir o conjunto dos trabalhos da artista que se configuram como instalações e intervenções no espaço, com ênfase nas intervenções nos espaços públicos. Parte-se das premissas de que tais trabalhos se instituem como um intrincamento específico com o lugar onde se inserem, e de suas configurações enquanto potencial político. Assim, o objeto da pesquisa decorre das relações que o trabalho artístico estabelece com o espaço, seja em sua fisicalidade ou em sua discursividade. A análise do conjunto dos trabalhos de Renata Lucas, produzidos entre 2001 e 2013, baseia-se em teorias de áreas diversas (filosofia, antropologia, história e, fundamentalmente, nas teorias do campo da arte). Por meio de leituras distintas, tenciona-se ressaltar na poética da artista: a percepção corporal do espectador/participante no espaço; a possibilidade de irromperem-se socialidades; a tentativa de criar uma fricção com o espaço por meio da alteração dos códigos representacionais pré-ordenados. Investigam-se as problematizações decorrentes da intervenção no espaço pré-ordenado, que possibilitem novas leituras e percepções. Procura-se defender, inclusive, o potencial político do trabalho de Renata Lucas como contido em estado de latência, no sentido de um potencial a ser desencadeado para o político, tanto pela produção de novos espaços, quanto pela subversão da ordem espacial preestabelecida, assim como pela constituição de uma esfera pública. Conclui-se que os trabalhos artísticos de Renata Lucas contêm muito do estranhamento, da incerteza, da fragmentação, da irrupção. Portanto, desvelar as camadas dos trabalhos da artista possibilita também desvelar camadas subjetivas, não aparentes, aflorar a emergência da "situação na qual estamos imersos". Inferiu-se, com isso, que o trabalho de Renata Lucas concretiza-se na oscilação entre o intrincamento e a fissura, o imiscuir-se e o friccionar
Abstract: The purpose of the thesis "Renata Lucas and the public spaces: intricacy and fissure" is to discuss the collection of the artist¿s works that configure as installations and interventions of space, with emphasis on interventions of the public space. It is assumed that such works consist of specific intricacy of the space with which they deal, and of their configurations as to their political potential. Thus, the objective of the study results from the relationship that the artistic work establishes with the space, whether in its physicalness or its discursiveness. The analysis of the collective works of Renata Lucas, produced between 2001 and 2013, is based on theories in diverse areas (philosophy, anthropology, history, and, fundamentally, on theories in the field of art). By means of distinct interpretations, the aime was to highlight the poetical aspects of the artist: the corporal perception of the spectator/participant in the space; the possibility of interrupting socialities; the attempt to create a friction with the space through the alteration of pre-organized representational codes. An investigation was conducted of the problematics resulting from the intervention in the pre-organized space that permit new interpretations and perceptions. An attempt was also made to defend the political potential of Renata Lucas¿ works as contained in the latent state, in the sense of a potential to be released in its political aspect, as much through the production of new spaces as to the subversion of pre-established spacial order, as well as for the constitution of a public sphere. It is concluded that the artistic works of Renata Lucas contain much of the surprise, the uncertainty, the fragmentation, the irruption. Therefore, uncover the layers of the artist¿s works enables us also to reveal subjective layers, not apparent, to treat the emergence of the "situation in which we are immersed". It is inferred, as such, that the work of Renata Lucas is concentrated on the oscillation between intricacy and fissure, intromission and friction
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Stirling, Scott. "The neo-diaspora : examining the subcultural codes of hip-hop and contemporary urban trends in the work of Kudzanai Chiurai and Robin Rhode." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002219.
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This thesis is structured around an exploration of the global phenomenon hip-hop. It considers how its far-reaching effects, as a cultural export from the United States,have influenced cultural production in South Africa. The investigation focuses specifically on the work of two visual artists: Zimbabwean born, Johannesburg-based Kudzanai Chiurai, and Cape Town born, Berlin-based Robin Rhode. The introduction familiarises the reader with the two artists and briefly outlines their histories and methods, as well as giving a short history of the development of hip-hop as a subculture from its beginnings in 1970s New York. The first chapter follows this brief introduction to outline some of the parallels, especially concerning race relations, between 1970s America and post-apartheid contemporary South Africa. This comparison aims to highlight similarities that gave rise to the hip-hop phenomenon and which also place South Africa in a prime position to welcome such influences. The second half of the chapter explores how migration theory and issues of diaspora have not only influenced the development of hip-hop, but have also become points of focus for both artists, who are in fact disporans themselves. The second chapter explores ‘ground level’ concerns of everyday life in the city. Issues of crime,gangsterism, politics and activism are characterised as focal elements of Chiurai’s and Rhode’s artwork and also of hip-hop musical content. Inner city contexts in different parts of the globe are compared through a discussion of the art and music that come out of them. This comparison of the philosophical and conceptual content of the art and music is extended, in Chapter three, into a comparison of methods of production, considering how these influence various readings of the artistic output, whether musical or visual. Ideas of authenticity are discussed and finally the focus shifts to explore how both the conceptual and practical concerns of musicians and artists are being shaped by an increasingly ‘globalized’ world. The conclusion explores the challenges that globalization poses to cultural practitioners and seeks to highlight some of the artists’ methods as examples with which to facilitate the growth of a more inclusive global aesthetic.
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Knijnenburg, Nicholas. "What are the issues that arise in the creation and presentation of a hybrid art work?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35838/1/35838_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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As a creative expression, the multi or hybrid art form is in its infancy and still battling to achieve recognition and acceptance. This thesis recognises the importance of this new form and considers the place of artistic hybridity in history to constrnct a clear definition. This definition is used as a template for the construction of a new hybrid work, called Coma Neck 8. Using a Performance as Research methodology Coma Neck 8 provides data for the exploration of issues encountered in preparing and presenting a hybrid work. The issues are categorised as the intention of the work, form, amateur/professional status, logistical context and human context of the work. The synthesis and
analysis of these issues then provides a series of best practice principles for future art makers to consider.
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Barbosa, Andrea Lombardi. "Narrativas do desencontro: o MAM e as novas mídias." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20252.
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Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP
The present research proposes to understand the narratives between the new media and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, from a brief mapping of institutions that act at the intersection with the digital media as a confrontation production exercise, or in creative circumstances that explore new languages and approaches. In terms of functions, some issues stand out: how to create and implement new ways of performing museums? What are the changes necessary for the museum to account for the exposure and conservation of work in new media? What is the position of the museum in the face of new technologies, both in its use in the management and documentation of the collection and in the aid of education projects and support for visitation? For both the established museums and the museums being created today, the challenges that the new media present are enormous. They are ephemeral and dematerialized actions, works in process, built collectively, that manifest themselves in the direct clash with the ubiquitous time of cyberspace, generating strategies that subvert, recreate, amplify and deconstruct the meaning often anticipated by the digital context. In this way, the balance between conservation and exposure is threatened by the very dynamics of artistic production that stresses spatiotemporal distances, breaks with the paradigm of contemplation and calls for intervention, participation and intensifies mediation with works. In this sense, the present research addresses not only the productions and the experience of the museums in the context of the new media that cross the MAM-SP, but also points to questions to discuss the perspectives of the digital aesthetics in contemporary museums
A presente pesquisa propõe que se compreenda as narrativas existentes entre as novas mídias e o Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo a partir de um breve mapeamento de instituições que atuam na intersecção com as mídias digitais como exercício de produção de enfrentamento, ou em circunstâncias criativas que exploram novas linguagens e abordagens. No plano das funções, algumas questões se sobressaem: como criar e implementar novas formas de atuação dos museus? Quais são as mudanças necessárias para que o museu dê conta da exposição e da conservação dos trabalhos em novas mídias? Qual é o posicionamento do museu frente às novas tecnologias, no que se refere ao seu uso no gerenciamento e na documentação da coleção, bem como no auxílio aos projetos de educação e no apoio à visitação? Tanto para os museus já estabelecidos, como para os que atualmente estão sendo criados, os desafios que as novas mídias apresentam são enormes. São ações efêmeras e desmaterializadas, obras em processo, construídas coletivamente, que se manifestam no embate direto com o tempo ubíquo do ciberespaço, gerando estratégias que subvertem, recriam, ampliam e desconstroem o sentido muitas vezes previsto pelo contexto digital. Dessa forma, o equilíbrio entre a conservação e a exposição se vê ameaçado pela própria dinâmica da produção artística que tensiona as distâncias espaçotemporais, rompe com o paradigma da contemplação e solicita a intervenção, a participação, intensificando a mediação com as obras. Neste sentido, a presente investigação aborda não somente as produções e a experiência dos museus no contexto das novas mídias que atravessam o MAM-SP, mas também aponta questões no sentido de discutir as perspectivas da estética digital nos museus contemporâneos
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Cardoso, Silvia Helena dos Santos. "Estrada, paisagem e capim - = fotografias e relatos no Jalapão." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284439.
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Orientador: Luise WeissA biblioteca do IA acompanha 2 DVD-R
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Estrada, Paisagem e Capim - Fotografias e Relatos no Jalapão é uma pesquisa em Poética Visual constituída por viagens - como deslocamento e experiência estética - ao cerrado jalapoeiro, no interior do Estado do Tocantins. A fotografia digital e as anotações se constituem como expressão e desenvolvimento do percurso processual do trabalho realizado. As referências teóricas e visuais contaram com a Antropologia como essência, metodologia e inserção no campo de pesquisa e a Arte como espaço de reflexão e criação para o caminho poético. Diferentes questionamentos surgiram ao longo do desenvolvimento do fazer artístico e acabaram por delimitar o trabalho. Nesta pesquisa, arte, natureza e cultura tornam-se pares no processo de registro e percepção da intuição criativa fotográfica, enfatizando assim, o caráter de "work in progress". Um Livro de Fotografias e um DVD sonorizado com 170 imagens são apresentados como processo e resultado do trabalho poético
Abstract: Road, Landscape and Grass - Photographs and Reports in the Jalapão is a research in Poetic Visual consisting of travels - such as displacement and aesthetic experience - to the brazilian savannah, in the State of Tocantins/BR. The digital photography and the written summary notes are as expression and development of the proceedings of the visual work done. The theoretical and visual references counted with the Anthropology as well as essence, methodology and insertion in the field of research, and the Art to be a space for reflection and creation for the poetic way. Different questions have arisen in the course of the development of artistic making and ultimately define the work. In this research, art, nature and culture have become parts in the process of registration and perception of the creative intuition photographic, emphasizing the character of "work in progress". A book of photographs and a DVD with sound and 170 images are presented as a process and outcome of the research poetic
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Kühn, Carol. "Digital sculpture : conceptually motivated sculptural models through the application of three-dimensional computer-aided design and additive fabrication technologies." Thesis, [Bloemfontein] : Central University of Technology, Free State, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/50.
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Rios, Edna Maria 1966. "A Finitude e seus Afetos : entre sabores e falas." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285324.
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Orientador: Francisco Elinaldo TeixeiraDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: A presente dissertação, apropria-se da experiência audiovisual do dispositivo-jantar como objeto de reflexão, perpassa as seis cerimônias realizadas entre as cidades de Salvador e São Paulo, e encontra, nos rituais instalados em situação de rua, a possibilidade tanto de situar-se no devir criativo do projeto aqui esboçado: Entre ruas e calçadas, como de penetrar diferentes territórios audiovisuais com montagens e apropriações de sua malha imagética. O que o presente texto oferece é o sopro de uma criação que tem a incompletude como condição, a incerteza como única certeza. Em seu começo, uma disposição primeira: a cerimônia do jantar. Em seu percurso, a escultura de uma força criativa que se fez e refez no encontro com seus intercessores. Da inoperância temática, a abertura de possibilidades de seu dispositivo de escritura em diferentes montagens, por entre diferentes domínios do audiovisual
Abstract: This present work is resulted by the reflection about the audiovisual experience acquired from using the dinner ritual as a dispositif. It passes through six dinner rituals that took place in São Paulo and Salvador, two of which being done in the street with homeless people. These two particular dinners opened the possibility to go through a more creative path, here drawn by the Entre ruas e calçadas project, or to get into other audiovisual territories with different settings and different uses of its imagetic grid. This text offers a glimpse of a creation having the incompleteness as a condition, the uncertainty as the only assurance. When the project began, there was just one thought: the dinner ritual. During its course: the sculpture of a creative strength that elaborates and re-elaborates itself while understands its intermediators; of its thematic ineffectiveness: the possibilities opened to fit the installation dispositif to other different settings and different audiovisual domains
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"傳統的擬像: 從當代藝術的混雜性反思傳統." 2007. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893235.
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梁嘉賢."2007年8月".
論文(藝術碩士)--香港中文大學, 2007.
參考文獻(leaves 46-48).
"2007 nian 8 yue".
Abstract also in English.
Liang Jiaxian.
Lun wen (Yi shu shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2007.
Can kao wen xian (leaves 46-48).
Chapter (一） --- 前言：一覺之間的疑 惑 --- p.1
Chapter (二） --- 知覺：傳統的定義與印 象 --- p.4
Chapter 2.1 --- 神聖的規範
Chapter 2.2 --- 印象與符號
Chapter (三） --- 超越真實：傳統影像的再現與接 收 --- p.8
Chapter 3.1 --- 眼前的傳統
Chapter 3.2 --- 真實以外
Chapter 3.3 --- 符號慣性
Chapter (四） --- 相遇：當代藝術形態中的混雜模 式 --- p.17
Chapter 4.1 --- 從二元到多元的混雜
Chapter 4.2 --- 文化超市
Chapter (五） --- 再探：從混雜藝術中重拾傳統的意 義 --- p.25
Chapter 5.1 --- 傳統精神融合其他媒介，擴展傳統藝術思想
Chapter 5.2 --- 以傳統元素審視傳統
Chapter 5.3 --- 利用傳統的文化價値確立個人身分
Chapter 5.4 --- 傳統作爲創作材料的一部分
Chapter (六) --- 結論 --- p.40
Chapter 6.1 --- 創作者的起點
Chapter 6.2 --- 混雜藝術的位置
Chapter 6.3 --- 危與機的邊緣
參考書目 --- p.46
附錄 --- p.49
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Pereira, Ana Isabel Morais Lavrador. "The perfect paint in modern art conservation: a comparative study of 21st century vinyl emulsions." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/16840.
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Contemporary painting places, and will continue to place, several questions about its meaning, its chemical nature, its durability and the best way to preserve it. This research aims at putting together comprehensive data on vinyl based paints, including their components, their properties, their aging behavior and their response to selected cleaning products.
In this project degradation mechanisms of vinyl binders and formulations used in the 20th and 21st century were studied. Stability over time of selected vinyl polymers was assessed through natural indoor and artificially aging. The objective was to enhance knowledge and understanding of vinyl emulsion formulations and their performance over time.
Overall conservation state of pictorial layers namely, adhesion, cohesion and discoloration of selected case studies from the Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento (b.1948) was correlated with the observed molecular level changes studied in laboratory experiments. Sarmento’s paintings were chosen due to conservation concerns (discoloration) on some of his works from the 90’s. Besides, research was carried out to start increasing the knowledge of what can be expected of PVAc based paints in terms of response to conservation treatments namely, surface cleaning.
Artificial aging showed that the most recent formulations which are based on a poly(vinyl acetate), poly(vinyl chloride) and polyethylene terpolymer are less stable when compared to some homopolymer formulations. From the four pigments studied, titanium dioxide rutile and a carbon based black proved to be stabilizers for both types of polymer. The mixture lithopone plus calcium carbonate has showed to have a photocatalytic effect on the binders.
The studied paintings showed to be in an overall good state of conservation except for the paintings created in the 90’s with white glue and a mixture of white lithoponeand calcium carbonate. Discoloration of this white paint seems to be irreversible and ongoing and is still a major concern. The disapearance of the plasticizer was the only change detected. The current works created by Sarmento are expected to be more stable as they were painted using the rutile titanium dioxide.
Immersion/cleaning tests showed that vinyl based paints can be susceptible to water and organic solvents like ethanol as some evidences point to the removal/diffusion of additives from the paint. The observations made point to the need to further proceed in this research field.
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Cheney, Jacqueline Patricia. "The mythology of the uncanny : as theory and practice in Australian contemporary art." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150841.
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A sensation raw and primal, unwelcome yet not wholly alien but peculiarly familiar, neither a penetrating roar nor shriek from the depths but a more eerily pervasive murmuring, without being discredited as irrational but instead being elevated within academia - the mythology of the uncanny persists.
This inquiry focusses on the phenomenon of the uncanny and its exemplification in the visual arts. Whilst extant literature relates uncanniness to the broader field of aesthetics, especially enlarged upon in literature, film-studies and architecture, it is a comparatively neglected topic in the context of visual arts. It is occasionally touched upon in texts concerning an artist's work, but usually very synoptically. Yet much art aligns to readings of uncanniness. For example, Sally Smart's evocatively uncanny work attracts descriptive smatterings about it without adequate enunciation against a critical theoretical framework.
Such a framework, newly developed here, takes into account Sigmund Freud's pivotal essay of 1919 whilst providing new interpretations of it and its subsequent plethoric discourse. Furthermore, this framework incorporates entirely different viewpoints, including Existentialist versions of uncanniness centred upon Martin Heidegger's and Jean-Paul Sartre's theories. Whilst being an evolution of the extensive discourse, my framework assimilates otherwise disparate notions of the uncanny effect and its sensations, then applies it contemporaneously.
In writing from the secularised worlds of Freudian psychoanalysis and Existentialism, religion, spirituality and mysticism are areas not intentionally ignored nor sidelined as unworthy of consideration. Nevertheless the scope of this dissertation required curtailing thereby making the exclusion of the non-secular a necessity. Psychophysical, neural and cognitive characteristics of viewers' sensory perception of artwork (in relation to evoking uncanniness) are other exclusions, and whilst I touch on various socio-political aspects of the uncanny, it likewise requires greater regard than what is allowed for herein.
This is essentially an interpretative analysis which applies a more broadly developed framework to six Australian artists whose work is persuasively uncanny: Ron Mueck, Patricia Piccinini, Sally Smart, Lawrence Daws, Pat Brassington and Bill Henson. These case-studies are structured into three chapters: the first concentrates on three-dimensional, figurative sculpture (Mueck and Piccinini); the next section looks at siting the uncanny in two-dimensional landscapes, specifically the locale of Australia, a land where the uncanny is said to loom large (Smart and Daws); whilst the final section focuses on uncanny 'filmic' surfaces or photo-based media (Brassington and Henson}. This form of analysis is founded on either the artist's self-identification with the topic and/or is based on consistent commentary about their artwork eliciting uncanniness, except Henson, who receives little discussion in relation to uncanniness, but, as demonstrated, epitomises it nonetheless.
Examining their art against a contemporary theoretical framework thus addresses a lacuna of critical, academic insight into the uncanniness of visual art, before drawing conclusions about some conceptual, technical and formal differences and similarities.
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Nixon, Karla. "Re- an exploration of transience in the work of selected artists." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/2497.
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Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Masters of Technology in Fine Art Degree, Durban University of Technology, 2017.The aim of this research is to investigate the exploration of transience in the work of selected artists. This study used qualitative, practice-led research methodology. This research is practice-led as my art making plays an integral part in guiding my research. Process philosophy provides the theoretical underpinning and contextual framework for this dissertation. I focus on both contemporary artists and philosophers who explore the notion of transience. As my selected artists and I use paper as a predominant medium, I look at how paper is an ideal choice of material through which to explore themes of transience. The selected artists that I investigate include Peter Callesen (1967-), Mia Pearlman (1974-), Jodi Carey (1981-) and myself. Through this research I have found that artists expressed similar sentiments to that of process philosophers centuries before these theories existed, and continue to do so today. This validates transience as a relevant form of visual enquiry. Through the exploration of transience by contemporary thinkers and the selected artists, I briefly examine the scope of interpretations and possible meanings of transience. The investigation into paper as an art medium supports its appropriateness as a means to explore themes of transience. The exploration of the selected artists’ work highlights the various aspects of transience as a concept based on both subject matter and medium. This research resulted in a body of work, exhibited in partial fulfilment of the Master of Technology Degree in Fine Art.
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Ewin, Glenda, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Contemporary Arts. "Being and circumstance." 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/23387.
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This thesis culminates in an exhibition resulting from the artist’s investigation of the relationship between space and time, and on perception and experience of space with connections to ‘everyday’ ideas of space. A recurring link in this paper is the process of ‘being present’ in relation to spatial viewing. The artist’s studio practice focuses on the visual changes she sees within a particular space or spaces, and how these visual changes are perceived and experienced when presented to the viewer in a photographic image. The intention is to present a photographic image to the viewer that not only changes the space from which it originally came, but also highlights the beauty of the space that may be missed or overlooked. The research questions the way people see, the visual representation of the ‘void’ or ‘empty space’, and spatial representation. The paper also discusses how the artist visually perceives and experiences space. The work of other artists and writers who research space, time and perceptual consciousness are also considered.Master of Arts (Hons)
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Vekony-Harper, Delia. "What defines a good work of art within the contemporary art word? theories, practices and institutions." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4047.
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The dissertation explores how quality-judgments on works of art are created within the contemporary art world. The research starts with the examination of modernist art theories supported by the museum, and continues with the exploration of the impact of the art market on quality-judgments. Although the art market had already distorted the idea of quality, further contradictions and difficulties have risen within judgment-making after the 1960s due to the dematerialisation of the work of art. Art criticism should have been able to deal with this complexity, but it is demonstrated that art criticism is a subjective field and even if there is a universal theory on quality, it often fails when applied to the particular work of art. Throughout the dissertation it is demonstrated that although ‘good art’ is a subjective, power- and discourse-dependent concept, all art professionals seek something that is an inherent quality of the artwork. However, regardless of the existence of such inherent value, judgments on quality are constructed by and subjected to power-struggle.Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology
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Coats, Elizabeth. "Organic growth and form in abstract painting." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151306.
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This doctorate explores 'Organic Growth and Form in Abstract Painting', as the focus of my studio-based research, and which has resulted in two significant series of paintings, Organica and Streaming. The accompanying exegesis addresses experiences that are realized within the studio practice, and complements the two series of paintings. In the exegesis I describe the innovative and distinctive painting processes I have developed, and explain my motivation for working this way. I cite the writing of the philosopher of science, Henri Bortoft, in particular his description of 'active' seeing, which I suggest can be understood as a kind of modeling of my processes of making the Organica and Streaming paintings. Key to my research has been an investigation into the work of the early Russian avant-garde artist, musician, theorist and teacher, Mikhail Matyushin, who promoted an 'organic' vision of painting during the early years of modernist experimentation, insisting that perception cannot be separated from the body's inherent connection with nature. I discuss how the artists in the Organic studio, led by Matyushin, tested their sensitivity to perceptual and sensory experience with controlled experiments. Philosophically, they considered their findings to be congenial with the latest scientific discoveries of their time. Although my paintings are constructed very differently from those of Matyushin, my approach to perception and interpretation in painting is in sympathy with his thinking. The constructive and perceptual approach I have taken to both series of paintings has been directly influenced by immersion in natural environments. My exegesis provides a detailed account of this working process: how I work with geometric templates for the coordination of colours, and my systematic approach to their application, leading to uncontrived 'organic' extensions in the detail. I discuss my interest in the implicit knowledge garnered through perception of colours and the connective fabric underlying surface appearances in nature. I argue that these observations are generative resources for painting, and emphasise the fact that our sensory and thinking bodies are also part of nature. - provided by Candidate.
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Lahy, Waratah. "Painted objects : investigating the imagery of Australian iconic culture." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149626.
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Frederick, Ursula K. "On and off the road : creative intersections between cars and art." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156072.
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Thesis: Over the past decade there has emerged a growing body of scholarship concerned with the impacts and influences of automobility. Its purpose has been to understand the dominance of the car not simply as a technology of transport but as a system of actors, materials, objects, ideas and infrastructure. While much of this research recognises the pervasive presence of the car in our lives in terms of different representational formats, relatively little consideration has been given to what creative artists might contribute to this research. Adopting an interdisciplinary framework incorporating contemporary art, visual anthropology and the archaeology of the contemporary past, this study explores the intersection of car cultures and creative practice to consider how cars can operate as a form of art. In doing so the author proposes that artistic engagements with the car provide unique insight into the experiences of contemporary life. This argument follows from the understanding that art is not simply a mirror of or response to the socio-cultural and political context in which it is manifest. Art is also a conceptual tool for thinking about the very substance and conditions of contemporary existence. Incorporating research undertaken across numerous car culture sites and communities along with a detailed analysis of six case studies, the project makes extensive use of photography as a mode of research. Within the accompanying exegesis the author discusses how her own artwork engages with the influence of automobility in our daily lives. She identifies her working practice as one that is strongly inspired by objects, images and materials that already exist in the world. This enduring interest in the way people make their worlds is informed by her training and sensibility as an archaeologist. The artist explores this idea as a general influence on her practice and more specifically through her investigation of car cultures. The signature of the automobile is all around us, but through its very ubiquity it often goes unnoticed. It is this affect of the everyday - the power to hide in the light - that has especially influenced the artist's approach to the subject. How might this presence in our lives be envisaged without representing the car itself? By abstracting the auto from automobility the artist aims to reflect on the contradictory ideas and emotions that underlie our relationships to the motor vehicle. The story of the car is also allegorical. From the point of purchase to the aftermath of its obsolescence, the automobile is a site for the projection of our desires. The artist's photographs and video work are an expression of this sweet melancholy; the beauty of hope and the spectre of unfulfilled promise. In discussing how she came to develop her practice in response to this topic, the artist concludes that many different modes of being and making - from driving, to talking, to photography - may constitute art as practice-based research.
Exegesis: This exegesis discusses how I came to develop a body of work that engages with the influence of automobility in our daily lives. I identify my working practice as one that is strongly inspired by objects, images and materials that already exist in the world. This enduring interest in the way people make their worlds in informed by my training and sensibility as an archaeologist. I explore this idea as a general influence on my art practice and more specifically through my very ubiquity it often goes unnoticed. It is this effect of the everyday - the power to hide in the light - that has especially influenced my approach to the subject. How might this presence in our lives be envisaged without representing the car itself? By abstracting the auto from automobility I aim to reflect upon the contradictory ideas and emotions that underlie our relationships to the motor vehicle. The story of the car is also allegorical. From the point of purchase to the aftermath of its obsolescence, the automobile is a site for the projection of our desires. My photographs and video work are an expression of this sweet melancholy; the beauty of hope and the spectre of unfulfilled promise. In discussing how I came to develop my practice in response to this topic, I conclude that many different modes of being and making - from driving, to talking, to photography - may constitute art as practice-based research.
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Hoyne, Hanna. "Commitment, devotion and belonging in the world with particular reference to the work of two Indian contemporary artists." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150148.
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Commitment, Devotion and Belonging in the World with Reference to Indian Contemporary Art: Research into the ethical and political concerns in the work of two urban contemporary artists from Bombay/ Mumbai, Shilpa Gupta and Tushar Joag. The descriptive analysis of artworks explores the motivations evidenced in their strategic uses of audience interactivity, masquerade and social activism. The artists' quest for an ethical identity is framed in the greater theoretical context of Indian and global contemporary art. A study taking the form of an exhibition of sculpture exhibited at the ANU Bergman College Multidenominational Prayer space from August 24 to 29, 2009 which comprises the outcome of the Studio Practice component, together with the Exegesis which documents the nature of the course of study undertaken, and the Dissertation, which comprises 33% (or 66%) of the Thesis.v.1 Text -- v.2. Exegesis
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Day, Elizabeth A. "Discontinued narratives of migration and an art practice with earth." Thesis, 2011. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:31338.
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Based in a theory of art integrally related to earth, my art practice is a form of transplantation/transplanting. It finds its roots in Minimal Art, or better, in the transplanting of Minimal Art into the installation art form known as earthworks pioneered by the American artist Robert Smithson. Smithson’s practice ‘uprooted” Minimalism. One might say that he deterritorialised it, taking it out of the art gallery into the outside world.1 In that gesture, Smithson responded to Marcel Duchamp’s famous importation of non-art into the gallery, ostensibly turning non-art into art by the very act of that transplantation. Rather than maintaining the gallery as the locus or on the other hand simply seeking to negate it, Smithson arguably inverts, transplants and re-radicalises Duchamp’s gallery, making the earth itself the new gallery of art2. In doing so, I would argue, he makes of the field of art - and of his inquiries into and as art - the earth itself. He makes, that is, earth into the field, making himself into what I propose to call a “field artist”. My use of the garden (which I see as a practice arriving via the feminine) is reanimated via a link to Smithson’s Site/Nonsite concept. The garden also asserts what for me was lost through migration, for a generation the language of the maternal line. The gesture of the Asphalt Rundown by Smithson (after Pollock’s ‘drips’) brought the question of mining to play in the galleries of Manhattan. Likewise with the inclusion of my Boronia project, I want to include another field of neglect. Transplanting represents a process for me, and this is a crucial point. When I use the term transplanting, I mean to subsume within it such processes as change, mutation, metamorphoses, morphing, and so forth. In other words, my art practice, as well as that of Smithson, is a practice of process, the process of transplanting. Smithson was not literally a migrant, but he was a traveller.3 In making the earth the new space/place of art, Smithson acknowledges both the earth and art, as well as the artist, as creative media. His enterprise opens up several possible models of the relationship of art and the artist to the earth as he reconceptualises the earth as earth, as ground, as field. In line with Heidegger’s thought, I propose that art can be considered as ecology and the artist as an ecologist, as the transplantation/transplanter of the creativity of earth into the creativity of art.4 Here art becomes commensurate with, and faithful to, what earth is. One might appeal at this point to the idea of good husbandry, cultivated by Shakespeare in the figure of the right role of the king: that things should be as they are. Creative endeavour across arts and sciences ––becomings, must be fostered. I recognise that art is a form of planting, of boundless productivity, the drawing forth of good produce from the ground. A more complex model of transplanting would see creativity, including of earth, inextricably caught up with not only what takes root but what uproots, deracinates, disperses, disseminates the seed. There is an ecology here too, but not a simple one.
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Guth, Robert Ern-Yuan. "Engaging audiences to value and invest in participatory art practice through reciprocal and relational interactions." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151414.
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This research project examines certain forms of exchange and reciprocity in participatory art from a practitioner's perspective. It refers to aspects of Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics, touches on the food works of Rirkrit Tiravanija and uses practice-led research to examine audience interactions. In each research event the audience was given the opportunity to participate in some form of exchange, mostly involving food. Eight small research events and one larger work (staged in four editions) were produced. These works are examined as a means of gaining further knowledge of the stagecraft involved in my research practice and developing theoretical frameworks that can be used to better explain the inteactions occurring between people during these events. The outcomes from this investigation include a practical body of technical knowledge in making participatory art. The development o fthis expertise in practice-oedresearch can be seen in the increasing complexity of the research events, culminating in the final participatory event for examination. Tools were also developed, which focus on the indirect and direct reciprocal outcomes expected by participants ande artist, based on their engagement. These tools can equally be applied to the deconstruction of existing works to examine the mechanics of interaction or for the planning of future works.
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Wepener, Daneille. "Conflicting conventions: space as a medium in the works of Gerhard Richter and Serge Nitegeka." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24581.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the degree of Masters of Arts in Fine Arts (MAFA) Johannesburg, 2017This dissertation aims to examine Gerhard Richter and Serge Nitegeka’s artistic practices, in order to understand and identify how artists can potentially use space as a medium and contextualise my own practice within this realm. I position the conventions and principles of space through reference to French theorists’ Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault. The thesis begins with a brief overview of the window as a painterly motif and spatially familiar everyday device in the introduction. In the first chapter, I explore the surface and reflection of the medium of glass, the colour gray, the monochrome, as well as the pictorial, in Gerhard Richter’s Eight Gray (2002). The second chapter examines the role of the frame or line in Serge Nitegeka’s Black Lines (2012), as an environment of experience that relies on painted diagrams and the illusion of perspectival space. The third chapter observes a shift in the manner in which Richter and Nitegeka experiment and extend their practices through an engagement with the mirror and the door, respectively, as ways of exploring the threshold. Finally, I discuss my own practice and reflect on the exhibition Through the Extent (2015), which was submitted as the practical component of this research.
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Trapani, Alex. "Bruce Nauman : the true artist is an absurd fountain." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23276.
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Link to dataset: https://doi.org/10.25399/UnisaData.14152106.v1The work of Bruce Nauman can be understood as an enquiry into the absurd. His work is a critique of art, the artist and society, and is in part viewed as a mediation of stereotypical ‘truth’. The absurd is defined and analysed to elucidate the nature of art and human behaviour by means of literary comparison, in particular of Camus, Sartre and Wittgenstein. This research focusses on Nauman’s subversive performance- based work and analyses how he simulates a particular work of Duchamp. I propose that Nauman espouses human activity into the functionality of objects, such as fountains. My artworks expand on Nauman’s interrogation of the concept of a ‘true artist’ by embodying an absurd fountain as a Sisyphean construct. In contextualising my work in relation to incessant duty, insecurity and double negatives, I offer a regenerative vigour against idolisation of success through contemplation of the artist’s doubt and the absurd.
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PETRÁŠOVÁ, Jitka. "Vlakové nádraží." Master's thesis, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-47975.
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The theoretical part of this work refers to the presence and approach to the technical element in former and current Czech art. It closely inquires into this theme in the work of the outstanding contemporary Czech artists and it also mentions the graffiti phenomenon and its influence on the present artistic production. Furthermore it explains my intention and technical method in the course of creating the practical part of the work - a cycle of six thematic paintings.
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Willemse, Emma Wilhelmina. "The phenomenon of displacement in contemporary society and its manifestation in contemporary visual art." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4343.
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As an alternative to existing research which states that the phenomenon of displacement resists theorisation because of its complex nature, this study conducts a Phenomenological examination of the nature of displacement in which the interlinked losses in the key concepts of the consciousness of the displaced, namely Memory, Land and home and Identity, are navigated. It is shown that the current consciousness of society mimics these losses with the effect of displacement being experienced as a state of mind by contemporary society. By comparing selected artworks of artists Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker, it is established that although manifested in diverse ways, contemporary artworks reflect displacement according to a set of broadly defined visual signifiers. The visual documentation of a site of displacement in the North West Province of South Africa and subsequently produced artworks underline these findings and highlight the elusive attributes of loss inherent in the displacement phenomenon.Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology
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Jirátová, Kristýna. "Samota uprostřed davu: Charles Baudelaire a umění 20. století a současnosti." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-386502.
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Alone in a Crowd: Charles Baudelaire and 20th-Century and Contemporary Art The dissertation called Alone in a Crowd explores the influence of the poet Charles Baudelaire's personality and work on 20th-century and contemporary art. Due to the field of study, the main focus is on the visual arts, but literature, music, philosophy, and film are also included to a large extent. This dissertation is divided into four substantive chapters. The first chapter, The Inner Message, introduces the poet's life, his family and acquaintances, as well as Baudelaire's poetry collection The Flowers of Evil. Themes of evil, ugliness, fear, death, and even a relationship to their mother, father and women are common for 20th-century and contemporary artists. This chapter presents Félicien Rops, James Ensor, Edvard Munch, Hans Bellmer, Francis Bacon, Joel-Peter Witkin, Kurt Cobain, members of the Young British Artists group, Lars von Trier, and others. The second chapter pursues the correspondence theory. The character of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg and his successor, William Blake, is followed by Baudelaire's understanding of sensual and spiritual correspondences, as his principles are adopted by modern artists in a distinct manner. The third chapter called "On the Edge of Society" covers the curse...
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Cloete, Zelda. "Site-specificity in The educators new clothes by Mark Rautenbach." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27031.
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Text in English, with summaries and keywords in English, Sesotho and AfrikaansThis study is an enquiry into how The educator’s new clothes by Mark Rautenbach is an example of site-specific art. The aim is to demonstrate how boundaries in TENC become blurred between site-specific performance, other art forms, and every-day activities. The key concepts explored are: Rautenbach’s approach to the concept of site, the connections that develop between his performance and each site that he travels to; his use of the art gallery and viewer participation. Through literature study relevant theory is explored, and several arguments are applied in a selective manner to my analysis of TENC. Various International and South African site-specific artworks are discussed as an indication of how site-specificity can be applied in alternative ways. In October 2017 I installed GREENER?, a site-specific exhibition in the UNISA Art gallery. The works on the show underline the theoretical findings and highlight the flexible application of theory relating to site-specificity.
Dinyakišišo tše ke phatišišo mabapi le seo se dirago bokgabo bja The educator’s new clothes (TENC) ka Mark Rautenbach go ba mohlala wa bokgabo bja lefelong le itšego. Maikemišetšo ke go laetša ka fao ka go TENC mellwane magareng ga mošomo wa ka lefelong le mehuta ye mengwe ya bokgabo le mediro ya ka mehla di thomago go se sa bonagala gabotse. Mareo ao a šomišwago ke: mokgwa wa Rautenbach go kgopolo ya lefelo, dikgokagano tše di hlamegago magareng ga phethagatšo ya ya gagwe ya mošomo le lefelo le lengwe le le lengwe leo a yago go lona, tšhomišo ya gagwe ya kalari ya tša bokgabo le go kgatha tema ga babogedi. Ka go diriša dingwalwa teori ya maleba e a utollwa, gomme dintlha tše mmalwa di a dirišwa ka mokgwa wa go kgetha go tshekatsheko ya ka ya TENC. Mešomo ya bokgabo ya ka lefelong le itšego ya mehutahuta e a ahlaahlwa bjalo ka kutollo ya ka fao bokgabo bja ka mafelong bo ka dirišwago ka ditsela tše dingwe. Ka Oktoboro 2017 ke hlomile GREENER?, e lego pontšho ya bokgabo ya ka lefelong le itšego, ka Kalaring ya Bokgabo ya ka Unisa. Mešomo ye e bontšhitšwego e laeditše dikutollo tša teori le go laetša tirišo ye e fetogago ya teori mabapi le mešomo ya bokgabo ya ka lefelong le itšego.
Hierdie studie behels ʼn ondersoek na wat van The educator’s new clothes (TENC) deur Mark Rautenbach plekspesifieke kuns maak. Die oogmerk is om aan te toon hoe die grense tussen plekspesifieke uitvoering, ander kunsvorme en daaglikse bedrywighede vervaag. Die kernkonsepte wat verken word, is Rautenbach se beskouing van die konsep van plek, die verband tussen sy uitvoering en elke plek waarheen hy reis, sy aanwending van ʼn kunsgalery, en kykerdeelname. Die tersaaklike teorie word aan die hand van ʼn literatuurstudie verken, en ʼn aantal argumente word op selektiewe wyse op my ontleding van TENC toegepas. Verskeie internasionale en Suid-Afrikaanse plekspesifieke kunswerke word bespreek as ʼn verkenning van hoe plekspesifisiteit op ander maniere toegepas word. Ek het in Oktober 2017 ʼn plekspesifieke uitstalling met die titel GREENER? in die Unisa Kunsgalery gehou. Die werke wat uitgestal is, onderstreep die teoretiese bevindings en vestig die aandag op die buigsame toepassing van die teorie in verband met plekspesifisiteit.
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