I conduct a series of experiments culminating in a gallery exhibition, I Never Stopped Being A Curator, which investigate and reinterpret what it means to ‘care’ and ‘profane’ in the context of an expanded notion of curatorial practice. I call what I’m doing ‘performative micro-curating,’ a playfully performative practice with precedents dating back to Marcel Duchamp and The Richard Mutt Case. More specifically, I’m interpreting and practising performative micro-curating as a relational, meta-conceptual art practice that uses mirroring and repetition as a method for posing questions, making knowledge and forging social bonds, while, at the same time, dissolving the boundaries that customarily distinguish artmaking from curating.

I conduct a series of experiments culminating in a gallery exhibition, I Never Stopped Being A Curator, which investigate and reinterpret what it means to ‘care’ and ‘profane’ in the context of an expanded notion of curatorial practice. I call what I’m doing ‘performative micro-curating,’ a playfully performative practice with precedents dating back to Marcel Duchamp and The Richard Mutt Case. More specifically, I’m interpreting and practising performative micro-curating as a relational, meta-conceptual art practice that uses mirroring and repetition as a method for posing questions, making knowledge and forging social bonds, while, at the same time, dissolving the boundaries that customarily distinguish artmaking from curating.

This thesis describes my artistic practice as essentially project-based, site-responsive and hypermediating. Hypermediacy—i.e. the tendency of certain media or objects to keep their various constituents separate from their structure—is to be understood as opaque, juxtaposed and after a recurring contiguity with different kinds of interfaces. Accordingly, and within the context of the various projects that constitute this thesis, it is demonstrated how, in response to the particular places I work and to the various people I collaborate with, different kinds of materials and methodologies are incorporated in broader hybrids that are mediated (interfaced) in miscellaneous ways to this way result in original works of art. Materials and methodologies are shown to be intertwined and interdependent with each other as well as with the different ways in which they are interfaced, which accounts for an explicitly projectbased, rather than artwork-based, approach which, on its turn, de-emphasises the finished artefact in favour of process, performance, research and exploration. Projects are, then, shown to be explicitly site- or situation- responsive, as they are not implementations of preexistent ideas, but rather emerge as my original response to the particular sites, materials, people and the various other constituents that are involved in their very production. Interfaces to such hybrids as well as their very material and methodological elements are also shown to be hyper-mediated. It is finally argued that such an approach essentially accelerates multi-perspectivalism in that a project may spawn a number of diverse, typically medium-specific and/or site-specific, artworks that all exemplify different qualities which are congenital to the particular nature of each project.

Thesis (MA(VA))--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This work explores alternative ways of doing research within the field of art and design; ways that respect complexity and acknowledge the expansive, relational and performative nature of signifi- cation in arriving at ‘new’ knowledge. Through processes of designing in-between, I have been moving through opposites, connecting connections, and de(re)constructing structure. I have used my immediate locations as triggers to forge relations between an array of seeming disparate, albeit kindred, concepts. The scope of the work seems to have perpetually broadened, while theory and practice have dissolved in mercurial in- between states. Such exuding expansiveness has, at times, unsettled and unnerved, but ironically it has also intensely resembled our everyday ‘realities’. Designing in-between - compared to traditional, science-based research methods operating in barricaded systems of thought - thus allows for more faithful interrogation of the complexity of the world we live in. I believe this can be of great value in any attempt at innovative knowledge production, but especially attempts from within the field of art and design - a field often defined by its ability to challenge conventional ways of knowing. My work should not be regarded as yet another predetermined guideline for future research. It should rather be read as an example of a “conceptual tool” or “thought strateg[y]” (Hurst, 2010:242) suited to the complexity of the open systems we form part of every day. Neither the challenging, nor the advantageous, aspects of my work should be regarded as superior and exclusive to the other. The existence of dissonance and contrast is productive; a life force propelling the search for new significance and knowledge. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie werkstuk ondersoek alternatiewe maniere van navorsing doen binne die veld van kuns en ontwerp; maniere wat die kompleksiteit en ewig-groeiende, verhoudingsgebaseerde en performa- tiewe aard van betekenis-konstruksie in die soeke na ‘nuwe’ kennis erken en respekteer. Deur prosesse van tussen-in ontwerp, het ek my weg probeer baan deur teenoorgesteldes, het ek konneksies gekonnekteer, en strukture gede(re)konstrueer. Ek het my onmiddellike omgewingskonteks as stimuli gebruik om verhoudings tussen ‘n verskeidenheid van kontrasterende, dog verwante, konsepte te bewerkstellig. Die omvang van hierdie navorsing het sodoende gedurig verbreed, terwyl teorie en praktyk in verstrengelde tussen-in toestande ontbind het. Alhoewel hierdie uitgestrekte, deurdringende kompleksiteit my dikwels ontsenu en laat weifel het, versinnebeeld dit ironies genoeg ons alledaagse ‘realiteite’ redelik getrou. Tussen-in ontwerp - in vergelyking met meer tradisionele, wetenskap-geba- seerde navorsingsmetodes wat binne begrensde gedagtesisteme funksioneer - laat ‘n mens dus die ruimte toe om die onvoorspelbare wisselwerking tussen die magdom veranderlikes aktief in die wêreld waarin ons leef, in ag te neem. Ek glo dat so ‘n benadering tot navorsing van besondere waarde kan wees in enige poging tot die innoverende bou van kennis, veral in pogings vanuit die veld van kuns en ontwerp - ‘n veld wat geken word aan sy/haar vermoë om gedurig konvensionele maniere van verstaan uit te daag. Ek wil nie hê dat my werk as net nog ‘n voorafbepaalde riglyn vir toekomstige navorsing gesien word nie. Dit moet eerder gelees word as ‘n voorbeeld van ‘n konseptuele instrument (“conceptual tool”) of gedagtestrategie (“thought strategy”) (Hurst, 2010:242) wat geskik is vir die kompleksiteit van die inherent oop sisteme wat ons alledaagse lewens definieer. Nie die uitdagende, nog die voordelige, aspekte van my werk moet as superieur en eksklusief tot die ander geag word nie. Dit is juis die bestaan van teenstrydighede en kontras wat produktiwiteit bewerkstellig. Dit voorsien ‘n lewenskrag wat die soeke na nuwe betekenis en kennis voortdryf.

Interdisciplinary integration and practice through meaning making and context can contribute to the reconsideration and revolution of research by supporting narrativesand creating space for public discourse. In researching my heritage as a Korean adoptee, I found that the literature has been predominantly from adoptive parents' perspective,focusing primarily on child and adolescent development. Lacking in the literature is the adult adoptee perspective, and specifically their experiential voices. This interdisciplinary thesis has three major purposes (1) to explore how transracial transnational Korean adoption affects identity formation, (2) to illustrate how mentoring relationships can be a means to address and reframe the theme of loss as experienced by an adoptee, and (3) to use interdisciplinary inquiry as a means of expression to make meaning and illuminate adoptee identity formation. Drawing from my personal experience as an adoptee, an artist, a researcher, and as an educational mentee I integrate past research findings, Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN: storytelling), epistolary Scholarly Personal Narrative (eSPN: epistolary storytelling), and visual artistic research through jewelry/sculpture to describe constructing my adoptee identity. Images of the jewelry/sculpture are provided, while a public art opening displayed the series of work.

Orientador: Lygia Arcuri Eluf / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T18:31:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Garcia_ClaudioLuiz_D.pdf: 52254118 bytes, checksum: ba69c3575117c45af05862bae6ab2a6c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O conjunto de onze Livros de Horas é uma das partes do documento apresentado como conclusão do doutorado em artes. Este conjunto é composto por um relato da construção dos livros; pela criação de um vídeo mostrando as referências cinematográficas utilizadas no processo de criação dos retratos, assunto principal da narrativa dos livros. Trata-se de uma pesquisa em artes voltada à criação e ao ensino em artes. Foi realizada uma série de gravura em metal, desenhos e pinturas relacionados às experiências de ensino em artes / Abstract: The set of eleven books of Hours is a party to the document presented as doctor's degree in arts. This set consists of an account of the construction of books, the creation of a video film showing the references used in the creation of pictures, the main subject of the narrative of the books. This is a survey dedicated to creating arts and arts education. We performed a series of metal engraving, drawings and paintings related to the experiences of teaching in the arts / Doutorado / Artes Visuais / Doutor em Artes

Orientador: Lygia Arcuri Eluf / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T11:26:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BosqueMartinez_MariadelCarmen_D.pdf: 9996384 bytes, checksum: 7f81ce23cbd070d78ee4fec93233b54e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: A pesquisa se propõe a investigar a articulação das linguagens visuais e seus elementos como fundamento da prática artística e construção de uma poética, a partir de séries de trabalhos. Os trabalhos realizados se prendem aos acontecimentos no espaço ao meu redor, suas figuras, paisagens e objetos. Falam de um cotidiano que se organiza pelas formas aparentes que interferem em minha percepção e compreensão de mundo. A observação desse mundo de aparências se traduz a partir de uma diversidade de meios expressivos e procedimentos. No processo criativo contemplam-se as expressões bidimensionais como desenho, gravura ou pintura e a construção de cadernos dobráveis que se transformam em pequenos cenários tridimensionais, nos quais se interpõem e articulam as diferentes linguagens das artes visuais. A linha e a cor atuam como elementos básicos que, conforme seus arranjos e combinações, constroem outros elementos como luzes, transparências e contrastes potencializando a percepção desses relatos. Nestes cadernos se experimentam novas situações de apreensão do espaço e sua representação, permitindo sua manipulação e interferência por parte do leitor - fruidor. Haverá uma exposição a ser realizada na galeria de arte da Unicamp, com parte da produção artística decorrente desta pesquisa / Abstract: The research aims to investigate the relationship between visual languages and their elements as the foundation of the artistic practice and the construction of a poetic, from series of works. The works relate to events in the space around me, their figures, landscapes and objects. They speak of a daily life which is organized in ways that interfere with my apparent perception and understanding of the world. The observation of this world of appearances is translated from a variety of expressive means and procedures. The creative process includes two-dimensional expressions such as drawing, engraving or painting and the construction of folding books that turn into small three-dimensional scenarios, in which the different languages of visual arts stand and articulate. Line and color act as basic elements which, according to their arrangements and combinations, build other elements as lights, transparencies and contrast, enhancing the perception of these reports. In these notebooks one experiences new situations of apprehending space and its representation, allowing their manipulation and interference by the reader - spectator. There will be an exhibition to be held at the Art Gallery of Unicamp, as part of the artistic production resulted from this research / Doutorado / Artes Visuais / Doutor em Artes

La recherche en art se caractérise par une articulation polarisée entre la pratique artistique et la théorie. Cette thèse propose de transférer ce paradigme symptomatique de cette discipline vers la question pragmatique des modalités de sa communication scientifique. La forme de cette dernière fait débat pour les acteurs des écoles supérieures d'art françaises, qui défendent une liberté face au modèle prédominant de l'écrit universitaire. L'hypothèse formulée par cette thèse consiste à penser que la documentation devient une forme plausible de communication scientifique adaptée à la recherche en art. Pour traiter de cet objet d'étude, la recherche en arts numériques, le plus souvent interdisciplinaire, coopérative et collective, s'est avérée particulièrement pertinente, car la pluralité et la fragmentation de ses résultats permettent justement de sortir de la dichotomie pratique versus théorie. En effet, ces derniers impliquant plusieurs intervenants se partagent entre des créations artistiques, des développements technologiques et des contributions théoriques. Le constat d'un glissement de la documentation vers la communication scientifique est conditionné par l'existence de l'énonciation documentaire ; puisque le savoir, peu importe la pratique discursive utilisée, se concrétise par un discours compris comme le résultat d'un acte énonciatif. Trois études de cas à vocation exploratoire ont été menées autour de trois dispositifs documentaires établis par des acteurs de la recherche en arts numériques, en France et au Québec – le Cahier de Résidence de Kawenga, territoires numériques, le Répertoire des œuvres hypermédiatiques et les autres rubriques du sites internet du laboratoire NT2 et l'Archive Arc_Danse développée au laboratoire Hexagram-UQAM. La méthodologie utilisée érige l'énonciation documentaire pensée dans le prolongement de l'énonciation éditoriale comme un concept opérationnel. Elle s'articule en deux étapes. La première étudie la documentation comme dispositif info-communicationnel en utilisant, selon les terrains, différents outils et modes d'implication du chercheur. La seconde examine les objets documentaires par une approche sémiotique afin d'y relever directement les marques indicielles de l'énonciation documentaire et d'identifier conjointement les énonciateurs signalés et dissimulés. Il en ressort la caractérisation de régimes énonciatifs spécifiques. Cette thèse conforte l'idée que la documentation véhicule un discours documentaire au point qu'il est possible de l'utiliser comme un moyen communicationnel et non plus comme un outil de transfert neutre du contenu informationnel de documents vers des usagers. Elle en détaille aussi plusieurs attributs qui attestent concrètement de sa faculté à pouvoir répondre aux enjeux info-communicationnels propres à la recherche en arts numériques et plus globalement à la recherche en art. / Art research is characterized by a polarized articulation between art practice and theory. This thesis proposes to transfer this symptomatic paradigm from this discipline to the pragmatic question of the modalities of its scientific communication. The form of the latter is debated by the actors of the French higher art schools, who defend freedom in the face of the predominant model of academic writing. The hypothesis of this thesis is that documentation becomes a plausible form of scientific communication adapted to art research. To deal with this object of study, digital arts research, which is most often interdisciplinary, cooperative and collective, has proved particularly relevant, since the plurality and fragmentation of its results make it possible to break out of the practical versus theoretical dichotomy. Indeed, the latter involving several participants are divided between artistic creations, technological developments and theoretical contributions. The observation of a shift from documentation to scientific communication is conditioned by the existence of documentary enunciation; since knowledge, regardless of the discursive practice used, is embodied in a discourse understood as the result of an enunciative act. Three exploratory case studies were conducted around three documentary devices established by actors in digital arts research in France and Quebec - the Cahier de Résidence de Kawenga, territories numériques, the Répertoire des œuvres hypermediatiques and other sections of the NT2 laboratory website, and the Archive Arc_Danse developed at the Hexagram-UQAM laboratory. The methodology used raises the documentary statement thought to be an extension of the editorial statement as an operational concept. It is divided into two stages. The first one studies the documentation as an information-communication device using, depending on the field, different tools and modes of involvement of the researcher. The second examines documentary objects using a semiotic approach in order to directly identify the index marks of the documentary utterance and to jointly identify the reported and concealed utterers. This results in the characterization of specific enunciative regimes. This thesis supports the idea that documentation conveys a documentary discourse to the point that it can be used as a means of communication and no longer as a tool for the neutral transfer of information content from documents to users. It also details several attributes that attest concretely to its ability to respond to the info-communication issues specific to digital arts research and more generally to art research.

M. Tech. (Department of Visual Arts and Design: Fine Art, Faculty of Human Sciences), Vaal University of Technology. / This study explores two artistic methods of enquiry in order to firstly better understand the lived experience and its contributions on the formation of sexuality and secondly, to explore how a method can dissect and interrogate a theoretical discourse such as Queer theory. The project takes a twofold approach. In the Practice-led Research (PLR) section, which constitutes the first part, I attempt to utilize PLR as a means of exploring the lived experience along with the artistic contributions PLR might have on the ideation process and identity construction I made use of journal writings as a means for data generation and artistic exploration. The second part of this study, utilizing Research-led Practice (RLP), I attempt to dissect and interrogate Queer theory and the ideation process involved with RLP. I analyse Queer theory as a starting point for my artistic productions and explore and compared the two approaches to one another with regards to the ideation process and the construction of the self. The main aim of this study was to use the strategies of PLR and RLP to interrogate the process of ideation generation. The study set out to achieve three objectives. Firstly, it compares and contrasts the research methods suggested by PLR and RLP, as both operate from different points of ideation. Secondly it compares and contrasts the type of insights (philosophical ideations) around homosexuality and Queer theory that arose from using the two different methods. Lastly it tentatively/speculatively assesses which of the two approaches worked for me both as an artist (the making/ideation process) and as a gay man (the personal philosophical ideation process). In chapter one I discuss the background to the study and where it is situated within academia. In chapter two I discuss the two methodologies namely PLR and RLP and how I made use of them in the artmaking process. In chapter three I discuss the findings of working with PLR. In chapter four I engage with the theoretical discourse of Queer theory. In chapter five I discuss RLP and how Queer theory influenced the artmaking process. In chapter six I conclude with the findings. This study allowed me to channel my lived experience as a valid method of inquiry along with PLR. I discovered that a gay identity is based on personal experiences and shaped by the body. My second body of work (RLP) allowed me to investigate and interrogate Queer theory and I found that a Queer identity sits within a continuum. Working with these two methodological approaches allowed me to expand and grow as both an artist and gay man. Tentatively I conclude that PLR worked effectively for me to achieve this growth, whereas the RLP approach I found somewhat confining. Yet, the RLP approach ‘forced’ me to reconsider my preconceptions and the conclusions I had reached using the PLR approach.

UFU - Universidade Federal de Uberlândia / A temática desta pesquisa é o ensino da arte. Nela se propõem novas vias de interseção entre a Educação, a Arte e a Investigação, através do uso de suportes digitais como meios de expressão artística. A pesquisa realizou-se graças à participação de dois países de América Latina, o Brasil e o México, o quais têm uma enorme tradição na investigação educativa e na produção artística. A ideia desta tese nasceu e desenvolveu-se em uma universidade do sudeste do Brasil, enquanto os sujeitos que participaram da coleta de dados foram de uma universidade do norte do México. Realizou-se sob o amparo do Programa de Alianças para a Educação e a Capacitação (PAEC), no âmbito do Acordo de Cooperação entre a Organização dos Estados Americanos (OEA) e o Grupo Coimbra de Universidades Brasileiras (GCUB). Na pesquisa foram descritas e analisadas as capacidades de um instrumento educativo e artístico, desenhado e nomeado nesta tese como o diário artístico digital, com o objetivo de investigar suas capacidades na formação do artista plástico no contexto universitário. / The theme of this research is the teaching of art. It proposes new ways of intersection between Education, Art and Research, through the, use of digital supports as means of artistic expression. The research made with the participation of two countries in Latin America, Brazil and Mexico, which have an enormous tradition in educational research and artistic production. The idea of this thesis was born and developed in a university in the southeast of Brazil, while the subjects that participated in the data collection were from a university in northern Mexico. The research was covered with, the Partnerships Program for Education and Training (PAEC) in the field of the Cooperation agreement with the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities (CGBU). The research described and analyzed the capacities of an educational and artistic instrument, designed and named in this thesis as the digital artistic diary, with the aim of investigating their capacities in the formation of the plastic artist in the university context. / Tese (Doutorado)