Search for dissertations about: "Contemporary Art"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 133 swedish dissertations containing the words Contemporary Art.

  1. 11. You Told Me – work stories and video essays : Verkberättelser och videoessäer

    Author : Magnus Bärtås; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Video essay filmic essay; conceptual art; biography; storytelling; work story verkberättelse; narrator; voice-over; post-construction; narratology; reenactment; Chris Marker; Choi Eun-hee; Video art; Art;

    Abstract : You Told Me is a practice-based research project and consists of three video biographies (the Who is…? series), and two video essays (Kumiko, Johnnie Walker & the Cute (2007), Madame & Little Boy (2009), an introduction with a contextualization and methodology of the field, and three essays. The dissertation is an observation and analysis of certain functions and meanings of narration and narratives in contemporary art, as well as being an experiment with roles, methods, actions, and narrative functions in an artistic medium – the video essay. READ MORE

  2. 12. Space in motion : the art of activating space in-between

    Author : Monica Sand; Abdellah Abarkan; Annette Arlander; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; in-between; dispersed production; producer observer; bridge; swing; penelope; Architecture; Arkitektur; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : As a contribution to the emerging field of practice-based research in the arts, this thesis aims to activate space, experience and the concept in-between. As the in-between cannot be defined ahead of the rhythmic process it carries out and of which it is a part – a rhythm inherent in the city itself and in knowledge production – it is necessary to produce rhythmic relations between bodies, sites and concepts. READ MORE

  3. 13. Concrete Fashion: Dress, Art, and Engagement in Public Space

    Author : Kajsa G. Eriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; fashion design; contemporary art; performance; dressed body; documentation; artistic research; engagement; public space; identity; fashion design;

    Abstract : This dissertation is an example of artistic research that explores the border between fashion design and contemporary art, in order to place situated bodily practices within the larger field of exploration and ideology, and to discover new formats. The activities engaged in explore the dressed body as a contemporary art medium, and the performances are carried out in public space and within everyday life. READ MORE

  4. 14. The geographies of knowledge in (making) artwork : The field, the art studio and the art scene

    Author : Jenny Sjöholm; Dominic Power; Anders Malmberg; Angela McRobbie; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Contemporary visual artists; learning; skills; artistic work practices; mobilities; embodied knowledge; art studio; art scene; art industry; immaterial labour; economic and cultural geography.; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Geography; Geografi;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with the professional knowledge processes that contemporary visual artists develop and use in their construction of art as well as of their careers. In contributing to the geographical literature on professional learning and artistic labour, the thesis explores the question of how self-employed artists generate, apply and communicate their knowledge and skills in the context of individual work projects. READ MORE

  5. 15. Across a Most Radical Terrain : Towards an Aesthetics of Dissention

    Author : Ola Ståhl; UK University of Leeds; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethico-Aesthetics; Contemporary Art; Artist Collectives; Collaboration; Micro-Politics; Deleuze and Guattari; Spinoza; Art science; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : The 1990s saw a tendency within the field of contemporary artistic practice for outwards expansion: artistic projects increasingly got involved in wider social and political contexts; transversal and transdisciplinary links were established with other forms of practice; collaboration and participation became the explicit form and sometimes material of artistic practices; the group, collective or network was increasingly posed as an alternative to the individual artist in much the same way as the self-organized, artist-run space set itself up as an alternative to art institutions and galleries. Taking as its point of departure such notion of expansion within the field of artistic production, this thesis sets out to explore the aesthetics developed by these practices, and the link this aesthetics poses to ethical and political trajectories. READ MORE