Search for dissertations about: "site-specific art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words site-specific art.

  2. 1. Spaces of Encounter: Art and Revision in Human Animal Relations

    Author : Bryndis Snæbjørnsdóttir; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; animal studies; artistic research; conceptual art; contemporary art; contextual art; fine art research; installation art; photography; post-humanism; relational art; Snæbjörnsdóttir Wilson; site-specific art; taxidermy.;

    Abstract : This PhD project explores contemporary Western human relationships with animals through a ‘relational’ art practice. It centres on three art projects produced by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson – nanoq: flat out and bluesome; (a)fly; and seal – that utilize lens-based media and installations. READ MORE

  4. 2. Before Sound: Transversal Processes in Site-Specific Sonic Practice

    Author : Åsa Stjerna; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sound installation; site specific; site specificity; sound art; artistic research; philosophy of immanence; assemblage; affect; ethics; public space; transversality; transversal; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; sonification; sound design; sonic practice; transformation;

    Abstract : This doctoral research explores the capacity of site-specific practices of sound installation to bring about transformation. It claims that in order to understand this capacity, we need to address the complexity of the transversal processes that make up artistic practices in this field, and understand that these transversal processes in fact precede sound. READ MORE

  5. 3. Not fully present : Five artworks by Maddie Leach

    Author : Maddie Leach; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Maddie Leach; art; place; site-specific; public art; functional absence; commitment; James Meyer; Alain Badiou;

    Abstract : This PhD by Prior Publications is a composition of five artistic projects by New Zealand artist Maddie Leach produced between 2008 and 2019. The text identifies persistent methodological tendencies in her artistic practice that combine an obstinate attachment to making something happen and willing cooperation with incompleteness, inconclusion, and variation. READ MORE

  6. 4. Modalities of Place: On Polarisation and Exclusion in Concepts of Place and in Site-Specific Art

    Author : Gunnar Sandin; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interior design; Architecture; Actants; Modalities; Place; Site-Specific Art; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

    Abstract : In this thesis the notion of place is studied by way of investigating the “non-place” which is excluded or opposed, whenever a place is defined. “Non-place” is used here as a meta-concept, covering various recurring types of opposition to “place,” and it therefore represents a profoundly incoherent spect-rum of realities and concepts. READ MORE

  7. 5. Out of Minimalism

    Author : Malin Hedlin Hayden; Peter Gillgren; Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; 1. Title. 2. Sculpture - twentieth century; notion of sculpture; aesthetics; figurative; abstract; applied minimalism. 3. Corporeal viewer. 4. Interpretation.; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : The dissertation involves a threefold investigation of sculpture. Firstly, the interpretations are focused on particular artworks by three British sculptors: Antony Gormley (b. 1950), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), and Rachel Whiteread (b. READ MORE