The thesis deals with a topic of virtual relaxation and the contrast between idealized landscape and everyday reality. The theme of landscape compensation is very comprehensive and widely interacts with and impacts on psychological and cultural levels. For example, when images of nature represent a place of denied primary purity or the unreachable paradise. I draw my inspiration from YouTube channel phenomenon of relaxation videos which depict several hours’ long static views of the ideal landscape with authentic sound in the background. The aim of the work is to prepare a happening with a video recording, when the absurdly long journey in search of the ideal will not be transferable.

Vejnarová, P.: Physical action of a painter [Diploma thesis] Prague 2013 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Department of Art Education, (Notes: DVD - The record of the realization of practical part of the thesis). Abstract The theme of the diploma thesis "Physical action of a painter" is the analysis of gesture, body, movement, sense perception, dance in relation to visual art. In the theoretical part there is dealt with the artists of action art for whom the gesture, dance and movement during the art creation is principal and dominant. The didactic part is made up of an art project where the particular art series ("Gesture", "Movement", "Body", "Sense perception") and art topics are related and mingled together. In the art project there are the mentioned terms transformed on a didactic way and most of the art topics are verified in the pedagogic practise. The theme is complemented with the own creation of action painting - visual art in conjunction with dance and music. In this thesis there are used professional publications about the given topic.

In this dissertation, I examine the temporal and material connections between component parts of hybrid artworks, specifically between live events / acts of performance and the long-lasting sculptural elements that those events / performances produce. I propose a re-orientation of the temporal gaze of performance art history, from one oriented to the past to one focused on the continually unfolding present. Such a re-orientation requires a nonlinear approach to art making that complicates set boundaries of past and present, liveness and record, and presence and absence, and disrupts in potentially corrective ways our historically normative systems of looking, categorizing, and archiving art. Through a transfeminist analysis that prioritizes multiplicity rather than categorization, I consider elements of liveness in relation to subjectivity and agency, paying attention to their effect on the works’ ongoing reception and classification in archiving systems. I examine three elements of liveness as maintained through indexicality: action, endurance, and presence. Each of these elements has been historically associated with live art but not with static objects; each has been considered only in the past tense after the initial performance has ended. Using definitions of indexicality, nonlinearity, and agency as starting points, I examine how performance-based artworks connect the performance and subjectivity of the artist across time. This project loosely takes the form of three case studies of hybrid art practices by contemporary artists: Kate Gilmore, Mary Coble, and Cassils.

Le présent mémoire propose de croiser les démarches de deux auteures et artistes contemporaines, Sophie Calle et Miranda July, dont les quatre œuvres à l’étude – Douleur exquise (2003), Aveugles (2011), Rachel, Monique (2012) de Calle et Il vous choisit (2013) de July – se fondent sur des expériences en amont de l’écriture qui mobilisent le corps même des auteures, les engagent dans une action concrète et, bien souvent, dans des interactions avec autrui. Cet art de la contrainte, cet art action qui devient le sédiment de leurs écrits s’inscrit dans la filiation hypothétique des théories du philosophe pragmatique John Dewey et de celles de l’artiste Allan Kaprow – l’un des premiers à réfléchir l’art de la performance. L’écriture intermédiale qu’elles pratiquent – ce jeu de relations entre différents médias au sein même de l’œuvre – permet à la fois de réactiver la valeur performative de l’expérience qui a impulsé la création littéraire et d’embrayer une expérience de lecture qui devient elle-même performative. Exemplaires d’une esthétique relationnelle, polyphoniques dans les voix qui s’expriment, les quatre ouvrages du corpus donnent à sentir le bruissement d’une communauté. Il s’agit d’une littérature interdisciplinaire et intersubjective, mais surtout performative dans son questionnement incessant sur le pouvoir de l’art pour transformer la vie. / This master’s thesis proposes to establish a dialogue between the practices of two contemporary writers and artists, Sophie Calle and Miranda July. The four studied pieces of work – Calle’s Douleur exquise (2003), Aveugles (2011) and Rachel, Monique (2012) and July’s Il vous choisit (2013) – are based on concrete experiences occurring beforehand, prior to the act of writing itself. Those experiences mobilize the body of the writers engaging them in a real action and often in interactions with other people. This form of action art becomes the foundations of their writing and could be linked to the theories of pragmatic philosopher John Dewey and artist Allan Kaprow – one of the first to develop a reflexion on performance art. The intermedial writing that Calle and July practice as a game of relations between different medias in the same work allows both artists to revive the performative value of the experience. It impulses the writing and initiates a reading experience which itself becomes performative. Exemplary of a relational aesthetic, polyphonic in the voices that are expressed, the studied body of work reveals glimpses of community to feel and experiment. It is a literature that is interdisciplinary and intersubjective but primarily performative in its constant questioning of art’s capacity to transform life.

Master's thesis is devoted to the phenomenon of Secret Walls, an illustrative contest with a distinctive conception. The aim of the theoretical part is to explain the basic bases and contexts of this live art battlement event and describe the means suitable for motivating pupils and students to work on their own work, which is based on and inspired by SW. In short, linking the elements of this immediate art event with teaching art. In the didactic part, the aim is to realize the individual stages of the thematic art series, which is focused on the development of drawing in the pupils of the second grade of primary school and verifies the described motivational elements in practice. The aim of the project is to revive the public space of the town of Rakovník through the Concetre Wall event and to convey an artistic experience for local residents. To motivate them to create their own free time and to point out the relaxing aspect of art. The focus of the work lies in the realization and detailed description of the thematic series of artistic tasks and in the realization of the artistic event in Rakovník. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on the verification of motivational elements for own free work used in the school environment and in public leisure time. Last but not least, definitions and...