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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"institutional critique"”.
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"Inventories of Limbo": Post-Minimal Aesthetics in Cinema From the Readymade to Institutional Critique
… post-minimal aesthetic practice: the readymade, institutional critique, and seriality. A central goal of this research is to remap entrenched language and ideas in the spheres of the arts and cinema to point to a profound reciprocity between cinematic technology and post-minimal aesthetic …
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Possibilities for Making Institutional Change: An Institutional Critique of Diversity Discourse at a Predominantly White Institution
… how diversity discourse inscribes oppressive institutional structures (slavery, racism, and whiteness), specifically, institutional power, and offer possibilities for making sustainable change. This dissertation is an institutional critique (Porter et al. 2000) that includes Black women's …
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… art practices. I suggest select artists enact institutional critiques that aspire for a radically different art world by first engaging with an expansive understanding of existing conditions. To do so, I take up queer feminist art theory that expands the remit of institutional critique to …
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Soul models: rationalization and the art of subjectivity.
… reactivates the art historical tradition of institutional critique. Re-evaluated through the critical and philosophical components of the doctoral research, the material rendition of institutional critique is configured as a series of artistic engagements with the procedural and regulatory …
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Defining the public three moments of audience address in 20th century artistic production
… as well as the more recent projects of institutional critique that have characterized one trajectory of post-minimalist artistic production. Vladimir Tatlin and EI Lissitzky attempted to meet the demands of a newly-forming proletariat class by siting their work in the space of political …
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Dan Graham's Video-Installations of the 1970s
… use of site-specificity, and the practice of institutional critique. At the outset, I provide an in-depth analysis of two of Graham's magazine pieces, Schema (March 1966) and Homes For America, that ties together the artist's reading of Marcuse and his rejection of Minimalist phenomenology. …
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Feminist Interventions in Curatorial Practice at Appalachian University Art Institutions
… three core principles of feminist curating: institutional critique, collaboration and engagement, and inventive exhibition strategies. Data analysis found that staff at these three university institutions utilize various intersectional methodologies under the umbrella of feminist …
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Beside Oneself: Towards a Participatory Feminist Art Practice
… as well as performance artist Andrea Fraser’s institutional critique and multi-disciplinary artist Emily Roysdon’s choreographed movement. The dissertation artwork is a performance of choreographed movement by a group of girls and diverse adults, who create a composite character, the …
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AGAINST A SHARP WHITE BACKGROUND: Dialogic and Exhibitionary Practices of Black Contemporary Artists and Curators in Art Museums
… art museum space. It makes evident responses to institutionalised systems of address. Foundational in establishing this action research methodology (Lewin 1946; Carr & Kemmis 1986) are the dialogic frameworks provided by the theories of Mikhail Bahktin (1975), Edouard Glissant (1997), and chiefly …
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A Study of Curation, Location and Temporality in Contemporary Art Fairs
… definitions relating to location and time) and institutional critique (to critically engage with the art fair setting). The outcomes from the portfolio support the contention that curatorial practice, temporality and site are not discrete elements within a contemporary art fair environment, but …
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Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
… interventionist practice served to introduce institutional critique, new media and mass communication, as well as performative actions as artistic modes, irreversibly altering the cultural landscape of Mexico. </p>
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Queering the Museum: Utopian Futurity in Contemporary Exhibitions
… northeast corridor) and also conceptually. While institutional critique has primarily been applied to the production of artwork by artists who intervene in and critique various artworld structures from museums to galleries, my dissertation proposes the term to encompass the entire exhibition as a …
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Heritage As Process: Constructing The Historical Child’s Voice Through Art Practice
… process’ (Howard, 1998) because they present institutional critique, craft new heritage, and open up ‘Authorised Heritage Discourse’ (Smith, 2006). This role is explored through practice and the critique of works by artists, including: Corin Sworn, Andrea Fraser, and Danh Vo. This study …
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A politics of action: Hans Haacke in Germany, 1972-2006
Examining the works of Hans Haacke (b. 1936, Cologne) made in and about Germany between 1972-2006, this dissertation argues that the investigation of that country’s political structures comprises the very core of Haacke’s motivating concerns. Haacke’s long-term interrogation of German politics, now …
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Instituting Dissensus: The Democratisation of Cultural Institutions in the 21st Century
… and self-reflective model of a “dissensual institutionality” that can safeguard the continuous inscription of a multiplicity of social demands. Drawing on my ethnographic research in Europe and the U.S., this theoretical construct is then tested out through a series of under-researched …
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Femininities Reimagined: Gender Politics in Contemporary British Moving Image Art
… medium have undergone a progressive process of institutionalisation and popularisation that threatens their countercultural potential. Contemporary artists working within the legacy of 1970s feminist film criticism and moving image must contend with a changed socio-political and institutional …
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The transpositional art-object (Mezzone): countering restrictive modalities in art production
… and creative opportunities across the entire art-institutional framework. Central to this investigation is the idea of an essential connection existing between a-priori elements already within the current (restricted) status of my practice and the potential trajectory desired for it. In the first …