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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Live Art"”.
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Aquabatics as New Works of Live Art
… boarders, in order to both devise new works of live art and to develop new methodologies and approaches to art-making. Aquabatics, as a performance strategy, seeks to critique, contest and explore the liminal natures of human performance, and the role and context of live artists, in contemporary …
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(Dis)identifying female archetypes in live art
My thesis considers a feminist arts practice as a form of political agency. My research is practice-led. It consists of three performances/live art events (Medea/Mothers’ Clothes, Magdalena Makeup and Joan Trial), its documentation on three sets of DVDs and a written dissertation. Female …
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The Development of Live Art in Liverpool from 1979-2013: Toward Pragmatic Recommendations for the Sustainability of Live-Art Practice in Liverpool
Using The Bluecoat Arts Centre as a case study this thesis discusses the emergence and development of live-art practices in Liverpool since 1979 and analyses how these practices have developed in Liverpool in relation to local conditions, the national institutional infrastructure for live art, and …
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Towards 'Economies of Generosity' in contemporary live art practice
… in order to examine how gift intersects with live art practice. The ways in which it is made and encountered in contemporary (predominantly UK) society are of particular focus. The Horse’s Teeth, a 2012 project that saw the authorship of six new performance works gifted to six artists, is …
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The Morning After (the night before): Emancipating Spectators in Participatory Live Art
… framework for the analysis of spectator-participation in live art by examining the performance practices of Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s La Pocha Nostra, Marina Abramović, and Gob Squad. It explores the potentialities and limitations of participation from all sides of the performance border, …
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Exploring the field of autotopography through live art practice : The frieze, The anatomy lecture theatre and The security hut
… of making autotopographical performance. Departing from Gonzalez’s theory of autotopography (1995), which focuses on objects belonging to individuals that are seen to signify their identity, and drawing on Heddon’s (2002; 2008), Bal’s (2002) and Arlander’s (2012) subsequent discussions around …
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Art as Education: Redefining a Live Art Practice as a Pedagogical Tool, and its Perception and Place in the Learning Environment
… and tests how the pedagogical elements of live art have the potential to contribute to young people’s development and to play a transformative role in secondary education. It uses a methodology underpinned by a constructivist epistemology that promotes knowledge construction through …
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A Practice-as-Research Project utilizing Butler’s (1990) Feminist/ Post-structuralist theory of Gender Performativity, as well as Connells (2001) system of Hegemony, Complicity, and Subordination to Interrogate the Formation of Toxic Masculinities through Practice-as-Research and Live Art Methodologies
In the past twenty years or so, the concept of masculinity has come under increasing scrutiny. What used to constitute as socially acceptable behaviour for men to engage in, has increasingly become challenged by developments such as the MeToo movement. There are now stable grounds to argue that …
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The exquisite corporealities of Leibniz: performance as embodied practice of thought and documentary praxis
… undertaken with and through LEIBNIZ, the fluid Live Art collective that I co-founded with Ernst Fischer in 2005. Extending Ernst's and my long-standing engagement with issues of alterity, 'home' and 'belonging', our more widely collaborative activities as LEIBNIZ have developed to specifically …
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Dr Carnesky’s incredible bleeding woman
… practices. DCIBW is a spectacular touring live art carnivalesque performance work premiered in 2015 and documented in this written thesis. It draws on menstruation studies from the fields of anthropology, feminism, live art and performance, entertainment history, popular culture, activism …
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The unsound object and intimate space
… around these two terms to pluralise sound art histories, with the aim of opening up practical discourse between artistic fields. The research begins with musique concrète and Pierre Schaeffer’s sound object, but draws on Mladen Dolar’s voice object, Christof Migone’s unsound and Six Years, …
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I am also here: Invisible Insurrections in temporary autonomous zones – a haunting
… with the socio-political functions of public art interventions and suggests that these actions are temporary ruptures which create ‘invisible insurrections' in a context of hyper-surveillance. The paper draws from Hakim Bey's poetic anarchy, “Temporary Autonomous Zones”, and uses his theories …
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Acts of interpretation: An exploration of the role 'played' or 'performed' by the audience in the process of viewing as it affects the production of meaning and interpretation
… of both the 'active audience' and the artist within the viewing of live art'. This 'active audience' is described as one who can become sufficiently involved within the process of interpretation so as to understand their own place within that process, to the point of appreciating that …
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Trek : hitchhiking on the ox-wagon of destiny : voortrekker, draadtrekker, saamtrekker
As a South African artist I am in power to influence some manner of change, through my art, to the structure of national thought and hence national identity. Through my live art installation TOTANDERKUNTUlT, I offered South Africans the opportunity to engage in the cathartic process of resolution …
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Umthonyama
… production, Umthonyama --cyclical, durational live-art installation, work -- is stylized as a queer 'homily' that rehearses and celebrates a queer genealogy of black Xhosa identity felt and contested at the level of the intimate body. Citing the aesthetics and politics of black artists such as …
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The screen as a site of division and encounter
… the notions of division and encounter can be artistically explored. Furthermore, the screen is explored as an object, as a metaphor and as an idea. By linking the Latour notion of “assemblage” with Colley’s exploration of the personal use of mobile screens (“autobiometry”), and Ettinger’s …
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Alien Sex Club: Educating audiences about continuing rates of HIV transmission using art and design
… current modes of representation of HIV in art, which grows out of the minimalist aesthetic developed during the earlier part of the AIDS crisis by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Today however, it is acknowledged that HIV is an interconnected web of problems that should be …
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The Journey Towards Netherness: Exploring Endometriosis Experiences in and through an Improvisational Creative Praxis
… of female pain, this doctoral research explores lived-body experiences of endometriosis through a methodological framework which connects improvisation with theory from feminist and disability studies. Specifically, the research expands concepts like maternal interruption, disorientation, and …
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Acts of Writing: Writings on Contemporary Performance
… to practices and discourses in the performance arts that have occurred over the last decade. There is a particular emphasis on those unstable, hybrid and interdisciplinary areas of performance (including performance art, installation, 'new' dance, 'experimental' theatre, 'live' art) which resist …
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The States and Status of Clay: Material, Metamorphic and Metaphorical Values.
… contextual research in order to demonstrate how arts practice can challenge historical perceptions of clay and enhance its material status. The core knowledge deduced from this research is that embodied performance transforms connectivity between artist and clay and produces a unified incarnation …
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