Arthur C. Danto introduced the term “disturbation” in 1985 to denote artworks that confront audiences with the materials of reality in order to produce reactions that are continuous with those of real life. Danto argued that disturbational art dissolve the distance between representation and reality opened up by Platonic metaphysics and by the insertion of theatrical distance, returning art to its mimetic and magical phase. The thesis uses Danto’s conceptual framework to develop a critical account of artworks that use politics as the medium for their disturbational content by creating relationships with audiences that provoke the re-realization of attitudes, experiences and identities that have been suppressed. In Shibboleth (2007) by Doris Salcedo, disturbation takes the form of the ‘political uncanny’ and in the case of Domestic Tension (2007) by Wafaa Bilal, it takes the form of the ‘political abject’. The thesis argues that Shibboleth confronted audiences with “the return of the repressed” through a disturbational process of interaction with the space of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Departing from existing readings of Salcedo’s work, the thesis proposes that the installation provoked the experience of the political uncanny by physically enacting suppressed historical, economic and political divisions constructed upon a friend/enemy form of relationship. Likewise, the thesis argues that the use of virtual electronic media in the process of participation in Domestic Tension radically altered the structure of collaborative activities by its production of the abject through the detachment conferred by distance and anonymity. The degree of self-censorship and accountability that exists in face to face interactions was nullified by the process of remote participation which encouraged deindividuation and anti-social or dehumanizing behavior. The tendency towards dehumanization becomes intensified when the artwork’s content is political, thereby provoking hostile and distancing effects refracted by contemporary geopolitics.

The challenge of contemporary art, unlike in art history, has only recently been identified in sociology. Furthermore, an overly philosophical orientation, has undermined sociological expla- nations of artistic production. To remedy this, I propose a sociology of exhibitions. This entails a shift of focus from the elusive subject matter of art towards the tangible exhibition, and the construction of a new framework: the exhibitionary system, which also stands for the physical, institutional, and network environment of exhibitions. The central question in the sociology of exhibitions is to explain how the exhibitionary system shapes artistic production. The answer was sought by observing exhibition making in the Chinese exhibitionary system, from which quantitative data about 1,525 exhibitions, held in 43 exhibition spaces between 2010 and 2016, were also collected. I argue that the exhibition context shapes the physical basis of individual artworks and the construction of an artist's oeuvre. Through the contextualised creation of artworks for public viewing, artists aim to raise their visibility, which is crucial for artists' career prospects and symbolic consecration. An artist's visibility is, however, constrained by where she exhibits and with whom she co-exhibits. My method for measuring visibility reveals its binary nature, divided along a singular dimension and a collective dimension. Yet no binary division between the non- profit and for-profit is found within the exhibitionary system with regards to the selection of artists. Rather, both sectors contribute to a dual selection of marketable artists. A model of professional autonomy, which reconciles "art and the market" on the level of practices and awareness, prevails in the exhibitionary system. The sociology of exhibitions has solved persistent theoretical problems in the sociology of art. My empirical findings give rise to new research questions. Finally, I have offered a dialogue between studies of non-western and western cases within the same framework.

This thesis explores how the art world negotiates what contemporary African art means, in the context of the international contemporary art system and in relation to the histories of Western perspectives on Africa. Using conceptual and methodological approaches drawn from cultural geography, it examines the field of contemporary African art, foregrounding the terms of negotiation framing contested geographical imaginations and ideas of Africa. The research considers curatorial practices, exhibitions, art institutions, networks and the wider art infrastructure as an arena in which geographical concepts and categories are formulated, debated and contested in relation to contemporary African art. It draws on interviews with artists, curators, gallerists, collectors and scholars, as well as ethnographic fieldwork conducted in institutions and at art events, to unpick the idea of 'contemporary African art' as a working category and conceptual frame. It reveals tensions running through the field hinging on questions of categorisation, scale and location, the geographical dimensions and implications of which are currently under-explored. The conclusions argue for the importance of geographical awareness in debates around contemporary art from Africa and its shifting position internationally, particularly in the context of globalising trends in the art world and beyond, which engender complex geographies of mobility, identity, belonging and opportunity. The thesis also highlights the relevance of debates around contemporary African art for geographers, proposing new directions in research on art within cultural geography.

This research identifies the negotiation of inherited understandings of the term ‘community’ as an increasingly widespread concern within the field of contemporary art since 1989, particularly in the wake of art’s communitarian turn during the 1990s. The thesis examines these artistic investigations in connection with the work of philosophers such as Maurice Blanchot, Roberto Esposito and Jean-Luc Nancy during the 1980s and 1990s, where we find the most thorough interrogation of the term ‘community’ since the nineteenth century. Contending that art has significantly contributed to a discourse long established in philosophy, the thesis reflects on what precipitated the widespread shift from an artistic interest in ‘this or that community’ to ‘community as such’ during the 1990s, and on what art has offered to the negotiation of community that philosophy has not. These dual concerns have been developed in the two sections that comprise the thesis, entitled ‘Untying the “Unique Epochal Knot”’ and ‘Collaboration, Participation, Performance and the Negotiation of Community’. An important issue the thesis broaches is whether art can (despite concerns about its co-optation within neoliberal institutions) constitute a potent site for the negotiation of community. The affirmative, if critical, answer given considers the unorthodox forms, logics and strategies that art is permitted to employ, art’s ability to enact material interventions into social relations and, overall, art’s operation as an alternative/complementary mode of articulation to that offered by philosophy. Through the analysis of pertinent case studies, the thesis examines how collaborative, participatory and performance practices have been particularly employed by artists including Tania Bruguera, Kristina Norman and Artur Żmijewski, seeking to scrutinise factors crucial to the rethinking of community. These factors include singularity, commonality, temporality and ethics. Springing from interviews, research trips to key case studies, and a thorough literature review, as well as implicating a range of work from diverse geographies and spread over the past two decades, the thesis situates the move towards the negotiation of community in art both historically and theoretically. In doing so, the analysis develops an important reconsideration of contemporary art’s widely noted attendance to the social. In privileging a conceptual framework for the discussion of this tendency in art, as opposed to the more prevalent formalist model, greater critical purchase may be gained on this urgent development in contemporary art history.

This body of work explores the emotional aspects of my life through the metaphor of landscape. It is a contemplation of the genre of landscape in the contemporary art dialog. By exploring the materiality of paint and the physicality of working large I discovered the question of contemporary relevancy is no longer my primary reason for this investigation. My growth as an artist has come from exploring historical and contemporary influences and how they have affected my processes and visual aesthetic. Thus, a large series of work has emerged from an unexplainable desire to connect and share the crucial moments of my life through paint.

What is queer? What is queer? What is queer theory? Where can it go from here? This thesis sets out to explore the origins and influences of queer theory before investigating the present and the future spaces (ie, bodies and settlements) it can potentially move into. Three distinct experiments of fieldwork and ethnographic filmmaking test the truths and potentialities of queer theory when relating to queer bodies and settlements. That is to say that each chapter balances a film and its supporting text by embracing the value and urgency of practice led research. The first chapter questions queer history and details the importance of emerging trans politics in the post-gender, leftist, avant-garde, queer activist and militant space of Bologna. Queer bodies, case one: transgender and transsexual perspectives. Settlements, case one: Bologna and Lido di Classe (Italy). The second chapter considers the interface between disability theory and queer theory with particular attention paid to the practical theory of ‘curative education’. Defined by Rudolf Steiner in 1922 and further developed by Karl König with the foundation of the Camphill movement in 1944, curative education privileges the social model over the medical model in the field of disability so that disability is in fact ability. Queer bodies, case two: learning differences and disabilities perspectives. Settlements, case two: Berlin (Germany), Chatou and La Rochelle (France), Barry and Glasallt Fawr (Wales, United Kingdom). The third chapter uses queer perspectives to promote the relevance of quantum physics to the human body, thus involving contemporary dance, physical theatre and the arts more generally to address and redress the chiasm between science and technology on the one hand, and arts, humanities and socio-cultural sciences on the other. Queer bodies, case three: the inescapably queer reality of the physical world. Settlements, case three: multiple locations in Tuscany (Italy), and Thamesmead, London (England, United Kingdom). This thesis brings notions of queer and otherness deceptively close to notions of the self. Otherness and queerness become mirrors in which our own queerness comes into view.

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Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-03-30T19:24:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 SUNNY GABRIELLA DOS SANTOS.pdf: 628195 bytes, checksum: f18432857c89baf955cadcae6e44a3be (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-30T19:24:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SUNNY GABRIELLA DOS SANTOS.pdf: 628195 bytes, checksum: f18432857c89baf955cadcae6e44a3be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / This research aims to understand the artistic language of the writing of Clarice Lispector in the works Near the Wild Heart and Passion according to G.H., by Clarice Lispector. The narrative procedure adopted by Clarice Lispector in these works led us to the concepts related to modern and contemporary art, since we will investigate what are the aesthetic characteristics present in the author's writing that suggest such a connection. Thus, it is proposed to study the process of deconstruction of Being and Art from the perspective of the flow of language and the dereference of the Signature Image. The study will be based on contemporary critical theories, considering the rupture of the notion of art as a representation of reality. The theoretical reference for the analysis of the works will be Heidegger's conceptions of the notion of Being in its relationship with time and language, focusing on aspects related to the fragmentation of being-time; The deterritorialization of the artistic act in language to the infinite, in the perspectives of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and, interconnected with the notions of liquid modernity, of ZygmundBauman and the derealization of the work of art.The analysis of the works will be based on the search for the "essentialization" of the Being of the characters by the language (Near the wild heart) and the depersonalization of Being (Passion according to GH) in the context of a work marked by the principle of derealization and dereferentiation of the image -sign - a simulation process, in the view of Jean Baudrillard (1991). / Esta pesquisa visa compreender a linguagem artística da escritura de Clarice Lispector nas obras Perto do coração selvagem e Paixão segundo GH, de Clarice Lispector. O procedimento narrativo adotado por Clarice Lispector nessas obras levou-nos aos conceitos ligados a arte moderna e contemporânea, uma vez que investigaremos quais são as características estéticas presentes na escritura da autora que sugerem tal ligação. Assim, propõe-se estudar o processo de desconstrução do Ser e da Arte sob a perspectiva do fluxo da linguagem e da desreferencialização da Imagem-Signo. O estudo será fundamentado nas teorias críticas contemporâneas, considerando a ruptura da noção de arte como representação da realidade. O referencial teórico de análise das obras serão as concepções de Heidegger sobre a noção do Ser em sua relação com o tempo e a linguagem, focalizando os aspectos relativos à fragmentação do ser-tempo; a desterritorialização do ato artístico em linguagem ao infinito, nas perspectivas de Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari e, interconectadas às noções de modernidade líquida, de Zygmund Bauman e à desrealização da obra de arte. A análise das obras terá como norte a busca da “essencialização” do Ser das personagens pela linguagem (Perto do coração selvagem) e a despersonalização do Ser (Paixão segundo GH) no contexto de uma obra marcada pelo princípio de desrealização e de desreferencialização da imagem-signo – um processo de simulação, na visão de Jean Baudrillard (1991).

A acolhida que as imagens eletrônicas e sintéticas vêm recebendo por parte da crítica é reveladora de um novo otimismo tecnológico e abre espaço para a discussão sobre as conseqüências das novas tecnologias sobre a sociedade. Fala-se, em relação a estas imagens, de um novo regime de visibilidade e de um novo imaginário – numérico – que transgride nossos códigos perceptivos e cognitivos e nossa relação simbólica com o mundo. Contudo, a desvinculação destes sistemas imagéticos de qualquer prática social mais ampla e da produção imagética que as antecedeu – especialmente a pintura, a fotografia e o cinema – é ilusória. Em muitos casos, os elementos apontados como marcas de ruptura são muito mais a potencialização de questões já presentes na história da arte do que a constituição de um novo sistema representativo. A potencialidade aberta por estes novos processos de enunciação da imagem deve, portanto, ser pensada a partir de uma perspectiva mais longa, inserida na lógica cultural do Capitalismo contemporâneo. Com isso, na esteira das colocações de Walter Benjamin e de Adorno, trataremos de ver o que as configurações sociais contemporâneas e o advento das novas tecnologias fazem com a arte, situando as imagens eletrônicas dentro das relações de produção de seu tempo. / The welcome that electronic and synthetic images have from the critique reveals a new technological optimism and gives room to the discussion of the consequences of the increasing interference of new technologies in society. Related to these images, is discussed a new regime of visibility and a new imaginary – run by numbers – that transgresses our perceptive and cognitive codes and our symbolic relation with the world. However, the well- known idea of an epistemic breach between the new images and the previous image production systems (in particular painting, photography and cinema) is illusory. Very often, the elements presented as marks of the rupture are in a great deal more the enhancement of questions already present in art history than the constitution of a new representational system. The open possibility created by these new processes of enunciation of image must, therefore, be interpreted from a wider perspective, rooted in the cultural logic of contemporary Capitalism. Thereby, following the path of Walter Benjamin and Adorno, we shall try to see what the contemporary social configurations and the advent of new technology do to art, placing the electronic images inside the productive relations of its time.

A acolhida que as imagens eletrônicas e sintéticas vêm recebendo por parte da crítica é reveladora de um novo otimismo tecnológico e abre espaço para a discussão sobre as conseqüências das novas tecnologias sobre a sociedade. Fala-se, em relação a estas imagens, de um novo regime de visibilidade e de um novo imaginário – numérico – que transgride nossos códigos perceptivos e cognitivos e nossa relação simbólica com o mundo. Contudo, a desvinculação destes sistemas imagéticos de qualquer prática social mais ampla e da produção imagética que as antecedeu – especialmente a pintura, a fotografia e o cinema – é ilusória. Em muitos casos, os elementos apontados como marcas de ruptura são muito mais a potencialização de questões já presentes na história da arte do que a constituição de um novo sistema representativo. A potencialidade aberta por estes novos processos de enunciação da imagem deve, portanto, ser pensada a partir de uma perspectiva mais longa, inserida na lógica cultural do Capitalismo contemporâneo. Com isso, na esteira das colocações de Walter Benjamin e de Adorno, trataremos de ver o que as configurações sociais contemporâneas e o advento das novas tecnologias fazem com a arte, situando as imagens eletrônicas dentro das relações de produção de seu tempo. / The welcome that electronic and synthetic images have from the critique reveals a new technological optimism and gives room to the discussion of the consequences of the increasing interference of new technologies in society. Related to these images, is discussed a new regime of visibility and a new imaginary – run by numbers – that transgresses our perceptive and cognitive codes and our symbolic relation with the world. However, the well- known idea of an epistemic breach between the new images and the previous image production systems (in particular painting, photography and cinema) is illusory. Very often, the elements presented as marks of the rupture are in a great deal more the enhancement of questions already present in art history than the constitution of a new representational system. The open possibility created by these new processes of enunciation of image must, therefore, be interpreted from a wider perspective, rooted in the cultural logic of contemporary Capitalism. Thereby, following the path of Walter Benjamin and Adorno, we shall try to see what the contemporary social configurations and the advent of new technology do to art, placing the electronic images inside the productive relations of its time.