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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"art practices"”.
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Social art practices as feminist manifestos: radical hospitality in the archive.
… contemporary iterations of socially engaged art. It offers feminist manifestos as a lens through which to reconsider the form and intentions of socially engaged art, which is reframed in the light of these feminist insights as social art practice (Ross, 2000). To draw feminism alongside …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
This research project focuses on tracking artistic responses to social, ecological, and economic sustainability, as well as social responses to artistic movements that go beyond turning art into a commodity in service of a neoliberal agenda. In this doctoral thesis, I provide a critical analysis of …
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The Traces of a Traveller: Textile-Based Narrative in Contemporary Art Practices
… the 'traces' ofa traveller's observations. It starts from the author's own cultural context, and then crosses through the journey into a new cultural vision. By searching for clarification in fragmented thoughts and in exploring the concept of 'the traces of a traveller', the textile based …
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Micropolitics and Southern European socially engaged art practices in the age of austerity
… the institutional dimension of socially engaged art practices in Southern Europe between 2008 and 2015. The period under examination was marked by the emergence of a profound social and economic crisis, which coincided with the proliferation of social movements and practices that were driven by …
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A feminist dialogue with the camera: strategies of visibility in video art practices.
… context. The focus of the thesis is on video art, which, I argue, can be both a radical tool for deconstructing dominant mainstream images of femininity and play a role in developing progressive re–presentations of female subjectivities. This thesis argues that there is a need to revisit …
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Becoming beauty : the implications of the writings of Luce Irigaray for feminist art practices
… are of significance for feminist discourses of art, including art practices and critical analyses of art works by women. Her writings have been analyzed and employed in academic fields, such as Literature, Philosophy, and Theology, but rarely to date from within art history, criticism or theory. …
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Presencing Place: an enquiry into the knowing and shaping of place through expanded art practices
… from the ‘non–place’ to the rediscovery of the particular in everyday places, amplifying and enhancing ways of knowing and sensing through presencing place. A series of forty-five gestures, expanded art practices, form the enquiry. These gestures have a phenomenological and holistic outlook that …
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Drawn from artists’ lives: An empirical study of the situation and realisation of professional visual art practices in the Western Australian Field of cultural production
… research on the working lives of visual artists living and working in Western Australia. No detailed studies of this kind have previously been undertaken in a Western Australian context, though a series of national, economically framed studies have surveyed Australian artists working in a …
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Reordering Images and Re-constructing Memories: three artists-archivists in Brazil
… of the archival in the work of three Brazilian artists of different generations, Anna Bella Geiger (born 1933), Rosângela Rennó (born 1962) and Jonathas de Andrade (born 1982), this thesis proposes a genealogy of archival art practices in Brazil. This thesis argues that the art practices of …
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What is seen: Challenging the five-sense hierarchy through performance and textile art
… dimensions of the senses. This has been partly based on a critique of the privileging of sight over the other senses in western thought and culture. This practice-based research project takes the critique as a point of departure to explore the impact of traditional western …
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Peripato Telematikos: walking, cartography and software art
… them. The research asked how can peripatetic art practices inform the methodologies used by individuals to (re)present their environs and what media art practices would be suitable to support these (re)presentations? The project sought to provide ways for audiences to engage with these walks …
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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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Toward misreading : assembling (k)new meaning
This thesis explores meaning-making strategies in art practices through an entangled reading of the material and discursive forms through which that meaning is made. This thesis proposes that a necessarily material-discursive approach distinguishes art practices from other forms of meaning-making …
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Beyond Virus
… when social and cultural crises explode, art responds to them. As an Asian artist who was educated in China and Canada, the existing social issues toward people of color inform my concerns about North American multiculturalism and my art practice. This thesis is divided into five sections: …
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Beyond the artist-teacher fantasy: a Lacanian psychoanalytic investigation of K-12 art teachers' artist identities
Many who identify as artists become public school art teachers because they see teaching as a noble profession and viable means to earn a living in an art related field. A career in art education also seems to offer the protected time they desire to continue their work as artists. Often those …
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The Perfect, Singular Moment, When Reality Looks Back at You to Show, Exactly, What She Has Been Hiding All This Time: Nothing
… this research from more traditional time-based art practices such as video, sound, or performance, as I seek to investigate the temporal properties of a sculptural experience. The complexities involved in the object-subject relation are at the core of my research.
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Image and Evidence: The Study of Attention through the Combined Lenses of Neuroscience and Art
… discourse about attention with analyses of artworks that exploit the constraints of the attentional system. To advance the central argument that art offers a training ground for the attentional system, a wide range of contemporary art was analysed in light of specific tasks invoked. The …
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Digital Conditions and Post-Digital Potentials: an Exploration of Time and Matter in Hardware and Software
… research project in the field of Digital Art investigates concepts of time and matter in hardware and software, in order to challenge dominant conceptions of digital technologies and advance a more dynamic and transformative relationship between the two. It asks is it possible to think and …
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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
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 …
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