Geography’s engagement with art has a long and varied history which, consistent with broader disciplinary developments, has progressed beyond a focus on the representational content of art products to consideration of artistic practices and experiences. However, persistent tendencies to consider artist, artwork and artistic spatiality as distinct and essential render the ‘geography of art’ under-equipped to address the emergence through artistic practice of particular, contingent, mutable and excessive spatialities and subjectivities. With its emphases on practice, affect and experimentalism, I draw on geographical and psychological non-representational thinking – philosophically, methodologically and analytically – to generate an account of such emergent spatialities and subjectivities. I explore artistic, material and implicit means through which they emerge, from within artistic practice, on both an experimental and auto-ethnographic basis. Working alongside participating artists, I varied the spatial and material conditions of our respective practices to encourage participants to do, think about and articulate their artistic practices differently, and employed interview techniques intended to facilitate access to and articulation from implicit or pre-reflective understanding. Four substantive papers consider different aspects of artistic practice in the context of different theoretical literatures. Through these papers, I argue that artistic practice is a form a mythological thinking without explicit mythic content, and identify paired reciprocal processes of interrogation through which spatialities and subjectivities emerge. I propose that the combination of experimentalism and particular material affects within artistic practice sustains a skills-challenge imbalance, which drives further experimentation and generates increasingly individualized practices. I also argue that artistic practice provides both access to and articulation from implicit understanding, allowing the conveyance of implicit meaning both on its own artistic terms and by facilitating explication into linguistic form. I conclude that, collectively, these varied aspects of artistic practice constitute interpenetrative processes whereby the material and implicit function as one, and that by attending to these processes through the creative and analytical means introduced here, geography’s capacity for a non-representational understanding of artistic practice is greatly enhanced.

As a choreographer working with new media technologies, I recognised a need to develop choreography informed by the digital age. This study was framed by the development of the dance project Ada, over three stages through a qualitative, interdisciplinary process. Artistic practice as research grounded in task based choreographic processes led to the following areas of significance in the study, those being; enacting a narrative, physicalising interactivity, performing virtual dance, and choreographing through a digital perspective. Findings that enunciated the evolution of newmedia choreographic forms and structures arose from reflective practice, dialogue with participants and feedback from a live audience.

[pt] Com diferentes tipos de abordagem, as práticas artísticas contemporâneas visam borrar as fronteiras entre vida e arte/design. Esta pesquisa apresenta o desenvolvimento de uma série de proposições artísticas efetuadas ao longo do período de doutorado. Inicialmente, interessada no comer junto e consequentemente em ações coletivas, com a chegada da pandemia e o isolamento social, o foco foi redirecionado para as práticas estéticas individuais. Esta combinação entre o coletivo e individual acabou por estabelecer um ritmo de sensibilização ao artista. Para análise dos trabalhos produzidos, associamos os ritmos criativos ao ciclo de vida das plantas: germinação, brotação, crescimento e morte. No processo de construção dos parâmetros críticos, utilizamos principalmente os pensadores Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacques Rancière e Claire Bishop determinando assim um tipo de abordagem estético-política dos trabalhos. Em seu processo de adensamento, esta pesquisa relaciona corpo, estética e política. / [en] With different types of approach, contemporary artistic practices aim to blur the boundaries between life and art/design. This research presents the development of a series of artistic propositions carried out throughout the doctoral period. Initially, interested in eating together and consequently in collective actions, with the arrival of the pandemic and social isolation, the focus was redirected to individual aesthetic practices. This combination of the collective and the individual ended up establishing a rhythm of awareness of the artist. For the analysis of the works produced, we associated the creative rhythms with the life cycle of plants: germination, sprouting, growth and death. In the process of building the critical parameters, we mainly used the thinkers Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacques Rancière and Claire Bishop, thus determining a type of aesthetic-political approach to the works. In its consolidation process, this research relates body, aesthetics and politics.

This thesis is about how space technology is experienced in the social domain and how its purpose is recast from different viewpoints. The author is an artist and the approach taken foregrounds qualities of experience and viewpoint in which artists have a particular investment. This approach opens up the ways that affect, agency and authorship cross social domains that are directly and indirectly associated with the production of space technologies. A key focus is a group project led by the author that was initiated in response to the launch in October 2008 of the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The project took place in Bengaluru, India where the spacecraft was built. Taking the ambivalence that surrounds the uses and purposes of space technologies as a starting point, a description of the spacecraft is developed from a number of viewpoints, including the mission scientists, public media and the participants of the artist-led project. The interventionist strategies of the project shed light on the ways that technologies can be accessed through their imaginaries and this has significance for large-scale technologies, such as spacecraft, for which physical access is delimited and much of the infrastructure is invisible or hidden from public view. The thesis proposes ways of reinstating missed qualities of viewpoint and experience within the affective spaces of space technology through the imperative to articulate first-person engagements with the world that is bound into artistic interpretation. What is further proposed is that by picturing the interrelations and flows of space technology in social domains through the lenses of experience and viewpoint, a 'technographic picture' is created that then becomes available as a tool with which to re-imagine spacefaring. This is a crucial addition to discussions about the interplay between science, technology and society that recognises the intimate spaces at the core of such large-scale concepts. It offers a new transdisciplinary modality that incorporates an artistic approach with which to make sense of the structurally ambivalent pursuits of spacefaring.

Thesis (MA (VA))--Stellenbosch University, 2012 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates a variety of different texts I find interesting, and reveals how these texts provide insight into my artistic practise. This thesis investigates what the combination of a collection of texts that interest me can reveal about my concerns and artistic practice. Most of the primary research takes the form of utilising seemingly randomly selected texts, although the selection process is far from arbitrary. The motivation for the initial selection of the specific texts derives from one common source: my personal and artistic interest. These texts all interest me in very specific ways. This implies that there must be something that they all have in common. The central factor that brought these texts together is my own preoccupations. The themes that arise from the comparison and juxtaposition of these texts will thus be themes of my own creation. If these themes are generated by me, then they will inevitably be self-reflexive and reveal as much about me as about their own subject matter. Because my personal interest is the driving factor behind the research process, the thesis takes the shape of an individuated response to the specific texts, and as such the results are unexpected and dynamic. The nature of the research is closely related to that of my practical work. This is why I use my artistic practice as a central vehicle to bring all the threads and ideas together in the second half of the thesis. The themes that arise from the writing process, when viewed in conjunction with my artistic practice, not only place this practice within a theoretical context, but also clarify (for myself as much as for viewers) Ferdinand Kidd. Introverted Explorations. Stellenbosch University. 2011 many obscurities. In the end this process helps me to better understand and answer the question that has been with me since I started making art: When I can do anything, why do I do what I do? / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die kombinasie van 'n versameling tekste wat my interesseer. Die fokus is op wat hierdie versameling tekste oor my eie spesifieke belangstellings en kunspraktyke uitwys. Alhoewel die grootste gedeelte van die aanvanklike navorsing blyk na 'n onwillekeurige seleksie van tekste, is hierdie seleksie-proses geensins arbitrêr nie. Die oorspronklike seleksie van tekste vir die tesis het een aspek in gemeen: my belangstelling. Die tekste is vir my op 'n sekere en spesieke manier interessant. Hieruit volg die afleiding dat die tekste 'n kenmerk in gemeen het en as die sentrale faktor wat hierdie tekste byeengebring het, myself is, is die temas wat ontwikkel uit die vergelyking en jukstaponering van die tekste dus temas wat ek geskep het. As ek dus die temas geskep het, is dit noodwendig self-reflektiewe temas wat net soveel oor myself as hul eie onderwerpe onthul. Aangesien my eie belangstelling die dryfveer agter die navorsingsproses is, is die tesis in wese 'n geïndividualiseerde respons op spesifieke tekste met die gevolg dat die resultate onverwags en dinamies is. Hierdie aard van die navorsing stem ooreen met die aard van my praktiese werk. Gevolglik gebruik ek my eie kunspraktyk as 'n sentrale tema om die verskeidenheid idees en gedagtes byeen te bring in die tweede helfte van die tesis. Met behulp van die temas wat uit die navorsing- en skryfproses ontstaan en dan binne verband met my eie kreatiewe praktyk geplaas word, word my kreatiewe praktyk binne 'n teoretiese konteks geplaas, en terselfdetyd word obskure konsepte sinvol toegelig. Uiteindelik bewerkstellig hierdie proses 'n antwoord en beter begrip vir die vraag wat sedert die aanvang van my kunspraktyk ontstaan het: Wanneer ek enigiets kan doen, hoekom doen ek wat ek doen?

Effectuer une activité artistique ne va pas de soi. Cependant, aujourd’hui en France, le système scolaire développe des ateliers qui invitent les jeunes à se mettre,notamment, en piste. Les arts du cirque contemporain participent d’une est/éthique et d’une pratique du déséquilibre et du risque, qui en font sa particularité. C’est à la découverte d’une recherche-Action menée grâce à une intervention circassienne auprès de jeunes d’un lycée professionnel du Nord de la France, que ce travail convie. Le dispositif, faisant partie d’un projet Interreg et expérimenté lors de deux ateliers interculturels franco-Anglais a permis d’interroger les enjeux corporels, psychologiques, sociaux, psychiques et affectifs d’une pratique effectuée par un troisième groupe français. L’approche ethnographique sensible a mis en avant la souffrance de vie de ces jeunes et leur relation à l’école, faisant apparaître, a contrario, le rôle éducatif de la pratique de cirque dans son rapport au « vivre ». / Doing an artistic activity is not easy. Nevertheless, to day in France, the scholar system creates workshops to invite the youth to get on track. The contemporary circus arts develop an aes/ethics and a practice based on unbalance and risk, that makes it particular. This study aims to discover up an action-Research thanks to a circus intervention to students in a professional high school in Northern France. This device, belonging to an Interreg Project and experimented during two intercultural French/English workshops, allowed to question the bodily, psychological, social, psychic and affective issues of a practicing third French group. The sensitive ethnographic approach highlighted their suffering life and their link to the school, enlightening, by contrast, the educative role of the circus practice within the relationship to “living”

Inter, pluri, multi, trans. Les préfixes ne manquent pas pour désigner la volonté de l’institution scolaire de faire circuler les savoirs au sein d’une forme scolaire marquée jusqu’ici par leur segmentation. Cette thèse propose, au terme d’une enquête épistémologique destinée à montrer les enjeux d’une circulation entre géographie spontanée et géographie raisonnée, de développer des outils la favorisant, dans le cadre du cours de géographie. L’hypothèse de la recherche est que la pratique artistique peut favoriser cette circulation. Pour la tester, trois outils ont été conçus et expérimentés, depuis une posture d’enseignante-formatrice-chercheure : un concours photo, un concours de carte postale sensible, une performance. / : Inter-, pluri-, multi-, trans-: these many prefixes all denote how keen today's school is on making knowledge and skills circulate within a framework traditionally renowned for its segmentation. Starting from an epistomological study of the fruitful interaction between spontaneous geography and reasoned geography, this thesis offers to define and develop tools to implement it within the geography class. This research work's hypothesis is that this interaction can be positively impacted by artistic practice. To verify it, I designed and tested three tools, in an apporach that was altogether a teacher's, a trainer's and a researcher's : a photography contest, a "sensitive postcard" cartography contest, and a performance.

Faisant émerger de nouveaux objets et de nouveaux acteurs, les pratiques spatiales des artistes sont une entrée féconde pour repenser les dynamiques rurales actuelles. En les considérant comme partie prenante des rapports sociaux et bien sûr des espaces géographiques qu’elles contribuent à produire, notre thèse analyse la place des artistes en milieu rural sur un fond de mutation sociale et institutionnelle caractéristique des espaces ruraux contemporains. Car si la culture y apparaît comme un argument de distinction dans un contexte de compétition territoriale, elle croise une logique résidentielle et d’ouverture de la part des acteurs ruraux, susceptibles de favoriser l’installation d’artistes et de divers professionnels. Ceux-ci sont à la recherche de nouveaux espaces de vie et de travail et croisent en retour les nombreuses pratiques associatives et amateurs qui irriguent l’espace rural. Aussi, à l’inverse d’une approche sectorielle, nous abordons ce sujet par la question de la pratique des lieux, afin de comprendre comment les artistes distinguent les espaces dans leur argumentaire et comment en retour ils contribuent à un renouvellement des espaces vécus. Afin de dépasser les frontières habituelles du développement local, ce travail considère les ancrages et les circulations individuelles qui articulent différentes échelles de ruralité. L’approche biographique permet en effet de penser le local dans ses interfaces, ses réseaux et ses mobilités ; et ce retour aux lieux montre les incidences que les artistes peuvent avoir sur la définition de la ruralité, engageant par là une réflexion plus large sur le statut de l’espace rural dans la société. Ainsi, l’originalité de cette thèse consiste à utiliser une méthode qualitative centrée sur les parcours d’artistes pour analyser leur positionnement et leur stratégie, en s’intéressant aux transformations contemporaines des savoirs, des espaces et des pratiques créatives en milieu rural. Grâce à une approche qui croise les échelles d’analyse, cette thèse montre le rôle des espaces de l’art dans la fabrique du rural, et la manière dont les artistes contribuent à l’émergence de nouvelles articulations entre l’espace rural et la ville métropolisée. / By drawing attention to new objects and actors, artistic practices are a fruitful entry point for rethinking current dynamics of French rural life. This thesis interrogates cultural development in relation to recent social and institutional changes in rural areas, without isolating such areas from social relations or the geographical spaces that underlie them. If culture appears as a distinction argument in a context of territorial competition, it intersects with a residential logic and an openness of rural actors to the cultural field. This, in turn, can initiate dynamic interactions with artists and various professionals. Such “creatives,” always on the search for new living and working spaces, are increasingly moving to rural areas, where they cooperate with the latter’s respective associations and amateur practices. Thus, contrary to a sectoral methodology, we consider this topic with a multipolar approach of culture, in order to understand how artistic actors distinguish territories, and how these territories become, in return, renewed living spaces. To overcome the usual boundaries of local development, we have chosen to put forward the multiple scales of rurality by considering artists as actors in motion, who play with various territorial resources. The microsocial approach makes here possible to think the local in its interfaces, its networks and its mobilities. And this return to the site shows the impact that artists can have on the definition of rurality itself, thus engaging to a broader reflection on the status of rural space in society. One of the originalities of this thesis is to use a qualitative method centered on artists’ analyses of their own positioning and strategies, vis- à-vis contemporary transformations of knowledge, spaces and creative practices in rural areas. Through an approach that correlates rural contexts and scales of analysis, this thesis shows the role of art spaces in the rural fabric and the way they contribute to the emergence of new articulations between rural areas and metropoles.

This research investigates the theatrical training in the City of Aracaju, between the 1960s and early 2000s, our empirical field, when there was not yet formal theatrical training school in their daily lives. In that theatrical context, which precedes the installation of the Bachelor s Degree in Theater/UFS, in 2007, the concern was to find out how was the formation of these Sergipe theatrical subjects and what were their artistic practices. We believe that they occurred from their informal trainings, rather than formal, and, for that we appropriated the studies of Maria da Glória Gohn s on non-formal education. We sought also examine and describe how the relations processes occurred, which they had with their theatrical learnings, taking into account the assessment of the relationship with the knowledge widely publicized by Bernard Charlot. Besides them, we are approaching the theoretical contribution of István Mésáros s, to remember the dinamics of learning as a constant in our lives; L. S. Vigotski, once considering the historical and social processes and Muniz Sodré, with his idea of an ecology of the knowledges, a pedagogy which houses diversity. The thesis considered the 49 semi-structured interviews with Sergipe theatrical artists and is based in the methodology of qualitative approach to oral history, understood by Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy as a way of doing and thinking oral research. However, the analysis met the few existing documents, when it was needed. By the way, in conjunction with the instruments of collecting field data, we performed a literature review focused in the context of theatrical training, mainly on the Sergipe theatrical training. We believe that the presentation of the results of this research, in fulfillment of the objectives of PPGED/UFS, line of research Educators Training: Knowledges and Skills, can help to foster new researches on the subject of Sergipe theater and its artistic doings. / A presente pesquisa trata da formação teatral na cidade de Aracaju, entre os anos de 1960 e início dos anos 2000, nosso campo empírico, quando ainda não havia em seu cotidiano qualquer escola de formação teatral formal. Nesse contexto teatral, o qual antecede a instalação do curso de Licenciatura em Teatro/UFS, no ano de 2007, a preocupação foi descobrir como se deu a formação teatral desses sujeitos teatrais sergipanos e quais foram as suas práticas artísticas. Consideramos que elas ocorreram a partir de suas formações informais e não formais e, para isso nos apropriamos dos estudos de Maria da Glória Gohn sobre educação não formal. Igualmente, buscamos examinar e descrever como se deram os processos de relações que eles tiveram com os seus aprenderes teatrais, levando em conta a apreciação da relação com o saber amplamente divulgada por Bernard Charlot. Além deles, nos aproximamos do aporte teórico de István Mészáros, para lembrarmos da dinâmica do aprender como uma constante em nossas vidas; L.S. Vigotski, uma vez considerando os processos históricos e sociais e Muniz Sodré, com a sua ideia de ecologia dos saberes, uma pedagogia que abriga a diversidade. A tese considerou as 49 entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com artistas teatrais sergipanos e fundamenta-se na metodologia da abordagem qualitativa da história oral, compreendida por José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy como um modo de fazer e pensar a pesquisa oral. Contudo, a análise atendeu ainda aos poucos documentais existentes, quando foi necessário. Aliás, concomitantemente ao instrumento da coleta de dados de campo, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica centrada no contexto da formação teatral, principalmente sobre a formação teatral sergipana. Acreditamos que a apresentação dos resultados desta pesquisa, em cumprimento aos objetivos do PPGED/UFS, linha de pesquisa Formação de Educadores: Saberes e Competências, pode contribuir para fomentar novas pesquisas a propósito do teatro sergipano e seus fazeres artísticos.

[ES] La presente tesis doctoral, titulada Decir casa, cielo, bosque. Ensayo sobre la habitabilidad del mundo y los límites de la visualidad aglutina la investigación llevada a cabo durante el período comprendido entre febrero de 2018 y julio de 2021. Esta investigación se inscribe en la práctica artística, por lo que recoge diferentes procesos, gestos y proyectos desarrollados durante estos años. Partiendo de nuestra condición de "habitantes del afuera" y "hablantes del decir" hemos transitado diversas realidades cuya aprehensión resulta imposible de llevar a cabo por medio del ver. A lo largo del trabajo hemos constatado la imposibilidad de acceder a un acontecer puro, abordando este hecho a partir de la distancia insalvable entre mundo y lenguaje. Una brecha que ha sido trabajada, especialmente, en base a la configuración visual de la realidad y al privilegio del sentido de la vista en nuestro contexto cultural. A través del estudio de las visualidades hegemónicas occidentales hemos atendido a la crisis de la epistemología visual y al asentamiento de una falla en el conocimiento visual del mundo. De alguna manera, ello nos ha permitido preguntarnos por otras formas de habitabilidad que comprendan estos factores. Para llevar a cabo este planteamiento hemos construido un relato fragmentario en el que proponemos formas de articular lo que escapa al ver y en el que exponemos los diferentes procesos artísticos llevados a cabo. Todo ello se expone en relación con determinados enunciados de los regímenes visuales que ordenan y configuran nuestra mirada. La forma en la que este relato fragmentario ha sido construido trata de no preconfigurar el sentido de la investigación desde un marco conceptual previo. En este mismo sentido, el relato no busca alimentar diferenciaciones binarias entre teoría y práctica o entre creación y no-creación, artístico y no-artístico. La escritura empleada no se da al margen del propio trabajo, sino que, como parte del mismo, busca privilegiar la naturaleza variada del relato y la pluralidad de voces y procesos que han intervenido en la investigación. En definitiva, a través de múltiples textos, procesos y experiencias hemos podido explorar otras lógicas visuales al margen de los principios de claridad, transparencia y legibilidad. Ello nos ha permitido desarrollar un ejercicio de investigación en base a la práctica artística, ensayando diferentes formas de habitar, aprehender, decir y ver el mundo. / [CA] La present tesi doctoral, titulada Dir casa, cel, bosc. Assaig sobre l'habitabilitat del món i els límits de la visualitat aglutina la investigació duta a terme durant el període comprés entre febrer de 2018 i juliol de 2021. Aquesta investigació s'inscriu en la pràctica artística, per la qual cosa recull diferents processos, gestos i projectes desenvolupats durant aquests anys. Partint de la nostra condició d'"habitants dels afores" i "parlants del dir" hem transitat diverses realitats, l'aprehensió de les quals, resulta impossible de dur a terme per mitjà del veure. Al llarg del treball hem constatat la impossibilitat d'accedir a un esdevindre pur, abordant aquest fet a partir de la distància insalvable entre món i llenguatge. Una bretxa que ha sigut treballada, especialment, sobre la base de la configuració visual de la realitat i el privilegi del sentit de la vista en el nostre context cultural. A través de l'estudi de les visualitats hegemòniques occidentals hem atés la crisi de l'epistemologia visual i l'assentament d'una falla en el coneixement visual del món. D'alguna manera, això ens ha permés preguntar-nos per altres formes d'habitabilitat que comprenguen aquests factors. Per tal de dur a terme aquest plantejament hem construït un relat fragmentari en el qual proposem maneres d'articular allò que escapa al veure i on exposem els diferents processos artístics duts a terme. Tot això s'exposa en relació amb determinats enunciats dels règims visuals que ordenen i configuren la nostra mirada. La forma en la qual aquest relat fragmentari ha sigut construït tracta de no preconfigurar el sentit de la investigació des d'un marc conceptual previ. En aquest mateix sentit, el relat no busca alimentar diferenciacions binàries entre teoria i pràctica o entre creació i no-creació, artístic i no-artístic. Així mateix, l'escriptura emprada no es dona al marge del treball, sinó que, com a part d'aquest, cerca privilegiar la naturalesa variada del relat i la pluralitat de veus i processos que han intervingut en la investigació. En definitiva, a través de múltiples textos, processos i experiències hem pogut explorar altres lògiques visuals al marge dels principis de claredat, transparència i llegibilitat. Això ens ha permés desenvolupar un exercici d'investigació sobre la base de la pràctica artística, assajant diferents maneres d'habitar, aprehendre, dir i veure el món. / [EN] This doctoral thesis, entitled Saying home, sky, forest. Essay on the habitability of the world and the limits of visuality brings together the research carried out during the period between February 2018 and July 2021. This research is inscribed in the artistic practice, so it gathers different processes, gestures and projects developed during these years. Starting from our condition of "inhabitants of the outside" and "speakers of saying", we have traversed different realities whose apprehension is impossible to carry out by means of seeing. Throughout the work we have noted the impossibility of accessing a pure happening, approaching this fact on the basis of the unbridgeable distance between world and language. A gap that has been worked on, especially on the basis of the visual configuration of reality and the privilege of the sense of sight in our cultural context. Through the study of Western hegemonic visualities, we have attended to the crisis of visual epistemology and the establishment of a failure in the visual knowledge of the world. In a way, this has allowed us to ask ourselves about other forms of inhabitation that harbour these factors. In order to carry out this approach, we have constructed a fragmentary narrative in which we propose ways of articulating that which escapes seeing and in which we expose the different artistic processes carried out. All of this is presented in relation to certain statements of the visual regimes that order and configure our gaze. The way in which this fragmentary account has been constructed tries not to preconfigure the meaning of the research from a previous conceptual framework. In this same sense, the narrative does not seek to feed binary differentiations between theory and practice or between creation and non-creation, artistic and non-artistic. The writing employed does not occur at the margins of the work itself, but rather, as part of it, seeks to privilege the varied nature of the narrative and the plurality of voices and processes that have been involved in the research. In short, through multiple texts, processes and experiences, we have been able to explore other visual logics outside the principles of clarity, transparency and legibility. This has allowed us to develop a research exercise based on artistic practice, testing different ways of inhabiting, apprehending, saying, articulating and seeing the world. / Esta tesis ha sido realizada en el marco del Programa de Ayudas de Investigación y Desarrollo (PAID-01-07) de la Universitat Politècnica de València / Granero Ferrer, A. (2021). Decir casa, cielo, bosque. Ensayo sobre la habitabilidad del mundo en los límites de la visualidad [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/179555 / TESIS