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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"social sculpture"”.
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Armand Vaillancourt's social sculpture
As an artist committed to social and cultural change, Armand Vaillancourt considers his art to be a tool in generating social transformation. The monumental projects he has produced over the years, as much as his performances are not only an end product, but are equally vehicles for engendering …
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Social Sculpture: A Plastic Process of Mutual Transformation
Joseph Beuys, the originator of the term ‘Social Sculpture’, stated that the objects he made were stimulators for the formation of thoughts, i.e. that they were intended to mold or to shape thoughts. Beuys believed that the essence of Social Sculpture was to shape and mold the world by working with …
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For the Love of Reality: Social Sculpture as Self-Experiment
… PhD project encompasses a self-experiment in ‘social sculpture’ – a phrase coined by German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) to designate an expanded concept of art. Emancipatory and transformative in nature, it involves developing the perceptive, imaginative, reflective, and communicative …
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‘Energy Trees’ for a humane and viable future: a social sculpture approach linking individual and social capital
… how to become actively involved in the field of social sculpture. Inspired by Joseph Beuys’ famous quote ‘every human being is an artist’, this practice-based research study supports the hypothesis that, as potential artists, each human being is highly talented, and therefore able to bring great …
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Evoking Belonging: Enlivening Ubuntu As Social Sculpture for Cultural Transformation towards Ecological Citizenship in Sustainable City Making
… research enquiry in the field of contemporary Social Sculpture and Connective Practice. Through the research practice, I have formulated the Evoking Belonging approach comprising the Ubuntu Practices. These are informed by my Evoke theory of inclusive and equitable participatory enquiry. The …
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Journey into Relatedness: ways to overcome the separation between inner and outer action, engender eco-social insight and facilitate new forms of transdisciplinary Connective Practice, Social Sculpture and Socially Engaged Art
… ways to redress the lack of attention given in Socially Engaged Art to the necessary interconnectedness and continuity between social engagement and individual mind-shift work. Mind-shift-work is a term now used in the expanded art field of Social Sculpture and Connective Practice. It was coined …
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A poetic pilgrimage towards a cosmopolitan world
… than conceive everything in political terms. Social Sculpture has its place here: some of its key concepts and methods offer a philosophical framework for cosmopolitan thinking. The notion of pilgrimage is also central to the praxis. As I construe it, pilgrimage relies on landscape, horizon …
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"Voices of courage" : what makes people courageous?
… them to be courageous? This practice-based social sculpture research project investigates these questions by analysing the pathways of people who became activists and through an introspective assessment of my own experiences as an activist. My findings are based on 21 semi-structured …
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From Anaesthetic to Aesthetic in the Clinic: An Arts, Practice-Based Inquiry into Everyday Aesthetic Experience for Healthcare Practitioners
… by connective practices from the field of Social Sculpture. The research aims were to explore and describe the nature of a type of aesthetic experience relevant to the everyday work of health care practitioners; to develop and design new participatory processes that activate this for them …
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Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed?
… machine and artist Joseph Beuys' idea of social sculpture, as well as other thinkers' engagement with place and social context, I show how we can create a cultural ecology that assists the wellbeing of rural communities. The research is based on four case studies that explain how the …
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This is a house; a linger in the wonder of absurd architecture
… countryside and the community Wagon hill and the social sculpture Liikkuva Linna. Then I create a theoretical framework with thoughts from Albert Camus, Jonna Bornemark and Friedrich Schiller. With the theory we go through three absurd reference projects to be able to see and undress the rational …
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Presencing Place: an enquiry into the knowing and shaping of place through expanded art practices
… a better place that is embodied in the field of social sculpture and the possibilities of liminal knowing to connect in place. Processes of engaging with others and getting into a position where the world conspires to help you are considered with the work of carefully selected artists. The …
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Blazing Century 1: Creative Interventions on the Margins of Two Worlds - Studio-Based Art and Connective Social Practice
… of two worlds: studio-based art and connective social practice. This thesis proceeded as a reflective commentary on this inquiry while engaging five experimental art projects, mainly carried out in Nigeria and South Africa. I have employed the dynamic model of practice-as-research as a …