Search for dissertations about: "Performance Art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 648 swedish dissertations containing the words Performance Art.

  2. 1. The Convaluation of Performance Art : A Study of Peer Recognition Among Performance Artists

    Author : Edvin Sandström; Patrik Aspers; Anna Lund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Convaluation; Valuation; Evaluation; Performance Art; Art Theory; Ethnography; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Processes and forms of valuation, evaluation and valorization are important for bringing contemporary social life in order. In this thesis, I study the values of the small and autonomous avant-garde of the art-world, performance art. READ MORE

  4. 2. Monsters I Love : On Multivocal Arts

    Author : Alex Nowitz; Rolf Hughes; Sten Sandell; Åse Tone; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Music; acousmatic and disembodied voice; æsthetics of uncertainty and in-between; composer-performer; contemporary vocal performance art; custom musical instrument DIY ; digital musical instrument DMI ; electronic and electroacoustic music; expanding the field of vocal performance art; extended vocal techniques; extending the voice; gesture-controlled live electronics; improvisation and real-time composition; inclusive vocal performance practises; interactive sound and music; multidirectional listening; multivocality; multivocal voice; new vocality; sampling practises for vocal and musical improvisation; schizophonic practices; sensor-based and computer-based technology; singer-composer; sound art; sound technology; STEIM; strophonion; vocal materiality and liminality; vocal personas; vocal sound dance; wireless technology; Performativa och mediala praktiker; Performative and media based practices; Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts in Performative and Media Based Practices with Specialisation in Opera; Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts in Performative and Media Based Practices with Specialisation in Opera;

    Abstract : Proposing a ‘multivocal practice’ in the vocal arts, this exposition (documented artistic research project) embodies an inclusive approach to four core categories for the contemporary performance voice: the singing, speaking, extended and disembodied voice. The culmination of a four-year PhD project in the Performative and mediated practices, with specializations in choreography/film and media/opera /performing arts, it documents artistic research sub-projects through the presentation of multimedia material, interweaving performance recordings with reflection and informative threads. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. Portraying Unease : the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments

    Author : Ellen Suneson; The Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; emotional responses; contemporary art; performance art; affect theory; feminist theory; queer feminist theory; visual methodology; embarrassment; attachment; hope; subversion; repair; self-doubt; institutional attachment; institutional promises;

    Abstract : Portraying Unease critically discusses a tendency amongst politicized scholars to endow artworks with traits of subversion and political productivity. Artworks that address structural discrimination, such as heterosexism, racism, or ableism, are often described as possessing qualities that can challenge unjust systems or initiate political change. READ MORE

  7. 5. Scenography in Action : Space, Time and Movement in Theatre Productions by Ingmar Bergman

    Author : Magdalena Holdar; Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf; Hans Hayden; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; scenography; set design; theatre design; performance studies; scenography analysis; theatre space; Ingmar Bergman; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : Developments in technology and new aesthetic idioms in the past decades have changed the preconditions for the scenographer’s work in the theatre. Therefore, it has become problematic indeed to describe scenography as the sum of costume and set, although this continues to be the common definition of the concept. READ MORE