В украинской современной социальной сфере наблюдается тенденция развития в направлении демократии. Эта тенденция, как и любое изменение мира, не могло не отразится в сфере искусства, причем образцом, как и для социальной сферы, так и для искусства является Европа. Но переход не может осуществиться сразу от одной системы ценностей к другой, для этого перехода требуется трансформация общества и ценностей, искусство в данном случае выступает катализатором таких процессов. Данные четыре художника создают объеты, которые несут пропагандистский характер и их концепции затрагивают сложивщиеся в данный момент в Украине политические и социальные проблемы. Трансформация в выбранных работах современных украинских художников является объектом исследования данной работы. / Ukrainos šiuolaikinėje socialinėje sferoje pastebima vystymosi demokratijos link tendencija; ši tendencija kaip ir bet kuri pasaulio kaita negalėjo neatsispindėti ir meno sferoje, kurioje pavyzdžiu kaip socialinei sferai taip ir menui yra Europa. Bet perėjimas iš vienos vertybių sistemos į kitą negali įvykti iškart, šiam perėjimui reikia visuomenės ir vertybių transformacijos; menas šiuo atveju reiškiasi kaip tokių procesų katalizatorius. Transformacija šiuolaikinių Ukrainos menininkų darbuose yra šio darbo tyrimo objektas. / In Ukrainian modern social sphere there is a trend of development towards democracy. This trend , as well as any change in the world , is reflected in art. Europe could be a good example for both. But transition from one value system in to another can not occure immediately, as transformation of society and its values is required. Art, in this case, acts as a catalyst for such process. Transformation in the works of modern Ukrainian artists is research object of this work.

Art is everything what people do with time and space is a theoretical text, which includes some of the author’s ideas on contemporary art situation and its definition. The work could be interesting for the people working in the sphere of humanities, as much as to everybody else living in this world. / "Menas yra viskas, ką žmonės daro su laiko ir erdve" - teorinis tekstas, kuriame galima atrasti kai kurias autoriaus mintys apie šiandieninę situaciją su menu ir apie šio termino definiciją. Darbas gali būti įdomūs kaip žmonėms, dirbantiems humanitarinių mokslų srityje, taip pat ir visiems kitiems žmoniems gyvenantiems šiame pasaulyje.

Disertacijoje analizuojama problematika, susijusi su šiuolaikinio meno praktikomis, kai menininkas ar kuratorius, siekdamas įgyvendinti savo kūrybinį sumanymą, meno projekte kaip medžiagą pasitelkia žmones. Tokie projektai paprastai išeina už estetinio lauko ribų: jie nebe reprezentuoja socialinę ar politinę tikrovę, bet ją atlieka. Todėl disertacijoje siekiama suformuoti koncepcinį modelį, kuris leistų kelti ir analizuoti dalyvaujamojo meno, kaip lygiagrečiai estetinėje ir socialinėje sferoje egzistuojančios praktikos, problemas. Modelis pagrindžiamas ir išplėtojamas remiantis pirmiausia klasikinės gamybos ir veiksmo (poiēsis ir praxis) skirties permąstymu ir pamatine prielaida, kad šiuolaikinė gamyba vis labiau panėšėja į veiksmą (Paolo Virno, Giorgio Agambenas). Teigiama, kad dalyvavimo praktikos bene aiškiausiai išreiškia šią gamybos ir veiksmo dialektiką šiuolaikiniame mene. Į vieną tinklą susiejus skirtingas filosofines koncepcijas (šnekos, taktikos, kasdienių praktikų, performatyvumo, kartotės), suformuojamas modelis, kuris pritaikomas dalyvavimo praktikų Lietuvos šiuolaikiniame mene analizei. Parodoma, kaip žvelgiant per gamybos ir veiksmo prizmę išryškėja tam tikros bendros su dalyvavimu susijusios problemos (pvz., dokumentacijos, meno įvykio ir meno kūrinio, darbo ir pramogos santykio ir kt.). Drauge koncepcinis modelis padeda atskleisti kiekvieno paskiro projekto specifiką, kvestionuoti kai kurias įsigalėjusias meno kritikos nuostatas, išryškinti naujus aspektus. / The dissertation deals with issues of those art practices, where an artist or a curator employs people as a project material so as to realize his/her creative purpose. Projects like this commonly expand beyond the aesthetic field: instead of representing social or political reality, they actually perform it. Therefore the dissertation aims at constructing a conceptual model that would enable the analysis of the problems around participatory art, as a practice operating both in aesthetic and social fields. The model is based primarily on rethinking of the classical divide between production and action (poiēsis and praxis) and the principle premise that contemporary production is increasingly becoming akin to action (Paolo Virno, Giorgio Agamben). The dissertation suggests that participatory practices are the clearest evidence of this dialectics between production and action in contemporary art. The model constructed of diverse philosophical concepts (idle talk, tactics, everyday practices, performativity, iteration) is employed for analysis of participatory art practices in Lithuania, which shows how looking through the prism of production and action foregrounds certain problems, general to participatory art (e.g. those of documentation, relation between art event and artwork, labor and entertainment, etc.). At the same time it proves to be a handy tool that helps to highlight peculiarities of a particular project, to question certain established prejudices, and to unveil new... [to full text]

The essay acts as a blueprint over my artistic practice. It is through the friction caused by th relations between the Keywords mentioned above I strive to achieve a dynamic which will act as an interlocutor between the fields, which are not separated but which fail to understand each others' logic and instead more or less intentionally seek to overwrite each other. / [I examensarbetet ingår utställningen: "Taking care of business":] The show was a total installation spanning over 7 days in which Studio Stök (Fredrik Fermelin and I) were constantly keeping the exhibition going: One room was filled with gelatine and lasers, was connected to another room by a tunnel in which a robotic vacuum cleaner constantly active. The other room was filled with +20 office chairs with incense sticks. Fredrik and I were never seen, but for 13 hours a day (07:00am-06:00pm), we mopped up the water from the "melting" gelatin so people could walk, lightning new incense, switching vacuum cleaners and mixing playlists with binaural beats for the tunnel. It was a way of catering an immediate sensation experienced as a viewer, no textualization was presented and enunciated indicating the exhibition was to be read in a certain way, and no artist was present creating a somewhat eerie sensation of a presence or absence. The smells were carried through the exhibition by the draft from the open doors and each room thus pre-empted the other. . Each room had an entrance and people were thus entering from two directions, there was no wrong way of entering and experiencing, the choreography of the exhibition created a sort of moebious strip which ended as quickly as it had lasted. During the week various flash events were held where the backspace which in normal circumstances acts as the entrance was opened. Material: Various Teknik: Installation The exhibition and partially the essays was a completely collaboration between Cecilie Hundevad Meng and Fredrik Fermelin as the artist group Studio Stök. The Exhibition and the essay(s) was only indirectly connected. / <p>The essay was abstractly linked to the exhibition.</p>

This thesis is an investigation into some of the influences, reasons, concepts and processes in my sculptural practice. Referencing the use of absurdity, pseudoscience, mythological instrumentality, and normal consumer logic, it is a questioning into what type of cultural production is viable within a contemporary art context.

This museum thesis project considers the challenges involved in developing engaging museum tours. The purpose of this project was to develop a fifty-minute, guided gallery tour that uses inquiry-based instruction to engage participants in dialogue and critical thinking about artworks. The tour was designed specifically for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, Virginia, using artworks selected from the museum’s twenty-first-century art collection that relate to the theme hybridity. This project contributes to the museum studies field by exemplifying how gallery tours can stimulate active learning, encourage visitors to find meaning in artworks, and form their own conclusions about objects in the museum. The project provides a model for integrating inquiry-generated dialogue within the gallery tour structure. Finally, it demonstrates that dialogue-based teaching can be used with teens and adults, audiences that some educators perceive as more reticent than younger learners to engage with this style of education.

This museum thesis project will provide an overview of kindergarten through 12th-grade (K-12) educational programs at six non-collecting art institutions within the United States, contextualized within a selected historiography of art museum education. This project is designed to aid the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA). The ICA is a non-collecting institution that will be located on VCU’s Monroe Park campus. As the ICA staff sets out to articulate a vision and scope for its K-12 education programs, it will benefit from the information offered in this thesis project, especially given that there is no existing literature specifically about K-12 programs at non-collecting museums of contemporary art.

La part de l’Afrique dans le commerce mondial de biens et services culturels reste très faible. Cette situation reflète en partie le niveau des échanges impliquant ce secteur à l’intérieur du continent. Des contraintes accrues pèsent en réalité sur l’écoulement des produits artistiques mais aussi sur les conditions de leur production. Les oeuvres d’art contemporain ne dérogent pas à cette affirmation. De plus en plus de publications et de recherches traitent de la problématique des échanges qui sous-tend la circulation des oeuvres d’art contemporain en Afrique. Il est aujourd’hui établi qu’étudier en Afrique les phénomènes et manifestations de la circulation des produits artistiques et particulièrement des oeuvres d’art contemporain relève d’une entreprise complexe tant le mélange de genre entre l’art traditionnel et l’art contemporain y est répandu : beaucoup de problématiques liées à l’art contemporain continuant d’être étudiées sous l’angle de l’art traditionnel. Cette thèse, en tant que contribution à la réflexion sur la création artistique, veut mettre en évidence les mobiles et les modalités des échanges sur l’art contemporain en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il est question de déterminer les relations existantes entre le champ de création et celui de la réception dans une perspective de développement des échanges sur les oeuvres d’art contemporain ainsi que ses incidences sur la création. Il s’agit aussi de démontrer que la circulation des oeuvres, assumée comme valeur intrinsèque de l’évolution de la création contemporaine et comme gage de notoriété des artistes, est censée concourir plus explicitement et, plus efficacement, au développement du champ de réception en contribuant à l’attractivité du marché de l’art. Les éclairages et les stimulations que ce travail pourrait apporter sur l’état du marché de l’art ainsi que la diffusion des oeuvres d’art contemporain au Sénégal, permettront d’avoir une meilleure approche sur cette question dans les autres pays de la sous-région. / The part of Africa in the world trade of cultural products and services remains very weak. This situation reflects partially the level of the exchanges involving this sector inside the continent. Growing constraints bear down on the flow of the artistic works but also on the conditions of their production. The works of contemporary art are not departed from this assertion. More and more publications and researches deal with the problem of the exchanges which underlies the flow of the works of contemporary art in Africa. It’s established nowadays that studying the phenomena and demonstrations of the circulation of the artistic products and particularity of the works of contemporary art is a complex matter. Because of the mixture of genders and origins inside the traditional and the contemporary art in Africa. Many problems connected to the contemporary art in Africa continue to be analyzed under the frame of the traditional art. This academic work is a contribution for the thought on the artistic creation; it aims to highlight the motives and modalities of the exchanges on the contemporary in western Africa. This PhD determines the existing relations between the field of creation and that of the reception in a perspective of development of the exchange on the works of contemporary art as well as its incidences on the creativity. We’ll demonstrate also that the flow of artistic products, assumed as intrinsic value of the evolution of the contemporary works and generally known fame of the artists, is supposed to compete more explicitly and, more effectively, to the development of the field of reception by contributing to the attractiveness of the market of the art. The lightings and the stimulations that this academic work could bring on the art’s market as well as the dispatching of the products of contemporary art in Senegal, will allow us to have a better approach on this question in the other countries of the sub- Saharan area.

[pt] Rejeitando a noção de uma produção artística pautada em uma linearidade, o trabalho de Robert Morris das décadas 1960-1970 escapa a rótulos como minimalista, arte processual ou arte de site-specific, embora seus escritos e obras tenham sido fundamentais para que críticos e historiadores de arte pudessem delimitar e/ou cunhar esses mesmos termos. A mobilidade adotada pelo artista - seja na adoção de um espaço e de um tempo da obra de arte como co-extensivos aos de seu público, seja na forma de obras que incorporam o observador - resulta numa ida em direção à experiência sensível vivida pelo espectador, que é transformado em um visitante/participante. Apesar de estarem inseridos em preocupações de seu momento histórico, esses trabalhos apontam para uma pesquisa estética que continua ainda hoje. Ao oferecerem, por meio de uma série de iniciativas exploratórias, os termos para uma experiência escultural, as obras de Morris impulsionam uma reflexão sobre as opções da escultura e de sua percepção. São obras cuja compreensão exige o tempo, o espaço e o corpo como condição da experiência estética. / [en] In its refusal of the idea of an artistic production based on linearity, the work of Robert Morris in the years 1960s-1970s cannot be designated as minimalist art, process art or site-specific, although his writings and pieces were essential for critics and art historians to define and/or to create the definitions themselves. The mobility which the artist adopts - both in his performance pieces and his process pieces - leads viewers into a sensible space/time experience turning them into participants/visitors. Although the works of Robert Morris point to the concerns of its historical background, they also foresee an aesthetic research that has continued to this day. By offering a series of exploration initiatives, they compel a reflection about the options of sculpture and about its perception. They are works that entail time, space, and the body as conditions of an aesthetic experience.

Considerando o corpo o elemento central da performance arte, o texto a seguir procura compreender que tipo de espaço se reserva nesse campo artístico para a presença corpórea e o que esta adquire ou perde, quando a imagem deixa de corresponder a um referente físico independente de si, para representar um complexo de processos digitais e analógicos. Este texto tem como premissa o reconhecimento de que a formação do sujeito depende da imagem do corpóreo e, portanto, medita sobre o papel do corpo na produção e na interpretação imagéticas. Inserida em um contexo critico dos desafios pelos quais passa a performance arte através de sua institucionalização - com seus subsequentes processos de hierarquização e estabelecimento de arquivos e documentos - essa pesquisa almeja explorar possíveis efeitos dessa contextura sobre o corpo. Por se desenvolver num formato que considera a escrita como performance, essa dissertação é proposital e excessivamente investida das particularidades e projeções de um corpo específico - o do autor/performer - e baseada nas práticas artísticas concebidas para e em relação com a prática de leitura e de escrita dessa pesquisa de mestrado. Da mesma forma, aqui, o espectador daquelas práticas artísticas - assim como o espectador desse ato performático - é tido como corpo particular no qual a obra de arte ganha seu significado, através da contingência da representação do corpóreo. Por fim, essa pesquisa serve-se de uma discussão sobre o corpo que pretende experienciá-lo ao dele se afastar minimamente, para poder alcançar o que dele não se pode dissociar: a carne / Considering the body as the central element of the discipline of performance art, the following paper seeks to comprehend the nature of the space opened by this artistic disciplino to the corporeal presence in relation to the new condition of the image - when it longer corresponds to a physical referent outside itself, but represents a concatenation of the image, Also, this research aims to critically explore the chalenges inflicted on the body by the institucionalization of performance art through the hierarchical and archiving process of institutional documentation. This dissertation is based on a format that considers writing to be a performace and is thus highly and intentionally invested with the projections and particularities of a specific body - that of this author and performer. Besides, this written research is developed from an in intimate relation to the artistic practices conceivid during the period of two years´s performance acts - as well as, you, the spectator of this performance act - is also seen as particular body - which gives meaning to the artistic object through the contingency of the interpretation of the corporeal representation, Finally this research uses a dicussion about the body - which intends to experience it while minimally distancing oneself from it - in order to reach that part of the body from which it is impossible do disassociate: flesh.