Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2007. / Appendix 4 contains 2 DVDs. Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (55 leaves : col. ill. ; 22 x 30 cm. + 2 DVDs) in City Campus Collection (T 709.93 FIN)

Artist Statement My art is about seeking answers to personal conflicts while telling a story of a chaotic journey. I reflect on everyday moments and my thoughts as I discover ways to make sense of situations and life. I do this by creating textural, vibrantly colored, and gestural surfaces that emulate the powerful waters of the seas. I want to reveal an emotionally driven and process-oriented experience to the viewer. While creating, I do not maintain full control of the media and let the process become part of the work. I aggressively layer thick paint, glass, and mixed media. I spontaneously apply spirals and swirls of vibrant color that undulate and rotate like waves of an ocean. The spirals and swirls are a recurring motif in my work. These forms are ancient symbols of evolution, growth, and change and reflect the examination of my life. The colors and marks represent the turbulent and constant chaos of life.

Also issued as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universität des Saarlandes, 2006). / Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-428).

This diploma thesis treats and follows the still life in the conceptual interpretation of some selected authors in the second half of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century. The work has been divided into the theoretical and the practical part. The theoretical part deals with the conceptual art, its evolution, theory and its representatives. It further follows the evolution of the still life concerning mainly 20-century´s still lives and three-dimensional still lives. The practical part is made by sketch cycles, photomontages and the final art conceptual project. The work documentation is a part fo this work.

Tendo um conjunto de ensaios como base, esta tese busca discutir uma dramaturgia de cunho realista e contemporâneo, produzida por autores como Henry Ibsen, Harold Pinter e David Mercer, e suas relações com o contexto da adaptação audiovisual. Dentre os problemas abordados está o debate sobre a questão da teatralidade, ocorrido nos EUA, no final da década de 1960. A teatralidade é aqui entendida como expressão artística entre as linguagens artísticas tradicionais e contemporâneas, e como aproximação do universo da arte e da experiência cotidiana. Como parte do diálogo estão incluídas produções recentes no campo da pintura, música popular e documentário. Nesse aparato de questões, a produção ensaística também ganha visibilidade por meio de um ensaio audiovisual, produzido especialmente para este trabalho e apresentado em sua versão escrita e filmada. / Taking a body of essays, this dissertation examines a certain realist and a contemporary dramaturgy produced by authors such as Henry Ibsen, Harold Pinter and David Mercer, and discusses its relations with the audiovisual adaptation context. Among its subjects is the debate about theatricality which occurred in the U.S. in the late 1960s, understood as artistic expressions between traditional and contemporary artistic languages, as well as an approach between the universe of art and everyday experience. Recent productions in painting, popular music and documentary are also discussed alongside the essays. The question related to essayism itself is also addressed through an audiovisual essay, submitted in its written version and in the filmed one, both especially produced for this work.

Tendo um conjunto de ensaios como base, esta tese busca discutir uma dramaturgia de cunho realista e contemporâneo, produzida por autores como Henry Ibsen, Harold Pinter e David Mercer, e suas relações com o contexto da adaptação audiovisual. Dentre os problemas abordados está o debate sobre a questão da teatralidade, ocorrido nos EUA, no final da década de 1960. A teatralidade é aqui entendida como expressão artística entre as linguagens artísticas tradicionais e contemporâneas, e como aproximação do universo da arte e da experiência cotidiana. Como parte do diálogo estão incluídas produções recentes no campo da pintura, música popular e documentário. Nesse aparato de questões, a produção ensaística também ganha visibilidade por meio de um ensaio audiovisual, produzido especialmente para este trabalho e apresentado em sua versão escrita e filmada. / Taking a body of essays, this dissertation examines a certain realist and a contemporary dramaturgy produced by authors such as Henry Ibsen, Harold Pinter and David Mercer, and discusses its relations with the audiovisual adaptation context. Among its subjects is the debate about theatricality which occurred in the U.S. in the late 1960s, understood as artistic expressions between traditional and contemporary artistic languages, as well as an approach between the universe of art and everyday experience. Recent productions in painting, popular music and documentary are also discussed alongside the essays. The question related to essayism itself is also addressed through an audiovisual essay, submitted in its written version and in the filmed one, both especially produced for this work.

Die vorliegende Dissertation zur Lebenskunst von Frauen mit Behinderungen ist eine Ergänzung der vorwiegend soziologischen Literatur, welche in den letzten Jahren über dieses Thema erschienen ist. Die Dissertation stellt – auf Grundlage dieser vorwiegend quantitativen Forschungen – die Lebenssituation der Frauen in Texten des kreativen Schreibens, also als qualitative Auswertung dar. Diese Texte wurden nicht für diese Arbeit geschrieben; sie entstanden teils in Schreibwerkstätten, teils privat. Als Methode der Auswertung wurde das „Zirkuläre Dekonstruieren“, welches Jaeggi, Faas und Mruck 1998 für interpretative Auswertungen vorgestellt haben, abgewandelt: Von der vorgesehenen Auswertung für qualitative Interviews hin zur Auswertung von Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, Gedichten und Texten des kreativen Schreibens jenseits germanistischer Herangehensweisen. Diese Methode erwies sich – nach einigen nötigen Veränderungen innerhalb des Prozesses – als geeignet. Eingebettet ist die Dekonstruktion der Texte (auf die Frage der Erkennbarkeit von Lebenskunst hin) in einen breiten Theorieteil über die Kraftquellen und Kraftverluste von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Kraftverluste – welche die Lebenskunst erschweren und nötig machen – liegen einerseits in den kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen: In Menschenbildern, Tabus, Normalitäts- und Schönheitsvorstellungen und im mitleidigen Verhalten der Nichtbetroffenen; andererseits in den Belastungen durch eine erschwerte Identitätsfindung, durch Scham, Leiden und die schwierigen Beziehungen der Menschen zur Medizin. Kraftverluste sind es, dass bisher weder in der Geschichte noch in anderen Kulturen eine neutraler oder wertschätzender Umgang mit Behinderung gefunden werden konnte. Kraftquellen liegen in den Umwertungen bestehender Werte, dem unter bestimmten Bedingungen möglichen Umschlag von Stigma in Charisma. Der Umschlag kann durch einen kulturellen Paradigmenwechsel (von der Pathogenese zur Salutogenese, über die Resilienzkonzepte, durch die Forschungen der disability studies und die Ausbildungen zum peer counseling und über Rituale und Reframing) vorangetrieben oder in der Religion gefunden werden. Lebenskunst ist eine philosophische Kategorie. Seit der Antike wurde sie in allen Zeiten ohne existenzielle Not (in denen es ums Überleben ging) von interessierten Gruppen gepflegt. Sie kann mit ihren Fragestellungen nach der bestmöglichen Lebensführung eine Hilfe sein für alle, die trotz Belastungen ein bewusstes und aktives Leben führen wollen. Lebenskunst steht der Kunst nahe. Das ist eine Herausforderung für Menschen, welche sich sonst nicht künstlerisch betätigen. Der Philosoph der Lebenskunst Wilhelm Schmid, dessen Gedanken die Arbeit folgt, sagte: „Die Schrift ist ein Medium der Kunst, sein Leben zu führen und zu gestalten, ist eine Geste der Existenz und der Gestaltung seiner selbst. Das Individuum formt sich in dieser Tätigkeit“. Damit wird das Kreative Schreiben zum Mittel der Arbeit an sich selbst und am eigenen Leben. Für Menschen, denen aufgrund ihrer Behinderung nur eingeschränkte Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung stehen, ist das Schreiben ein idealer Ansatz zur Gestaltung. Einige Studien der letzten Jahre beweisen, dass kreatives Schreiben eine heilende Kraft hat: körperlich, psychisch und sozial. Das beweist die Arbeit anhand von 24 ausgewerteten Texten. / This dissertation speaks about the Art of Life of women with disabilities. It is a completion to the sociological literature about this topics, issued in the last years. The dissertation describes – based on these quantitative researches – the situation of the women in their own texts in shape of a qualitative interpretation. These texts are not written for these interpretation. They derive from workshops of creative writing or are private scripts. The method of interpretation is the Circular Deconstruction by Jaeggi, Faas and Mruck (1998), developed for the evaluation of interviews. The method is changed from explaining interviews to explaining creative diary texts, poems or free texts – out of the view of German philology. This method suits the purpose after small changes. The deconstruction of texts (about the question of recognition of Art of Life) is surrounded in a wide theoretical part about the sources of power and the loss the power by people with disabilities. Loss of power makes the Art of Life hard but necessary. On the one hand the loss of power is hidden in the cultural frame: ideas of men, taboos, conceptions of normality and beauty and in the compassionate behavior of persons with no disabilities. On the other hand there are burdens through difficult findings of identity, shame, suffering and the difficult relationships between men and modern medicine. Another loss of power it is, that nowhere in history or in other cultures a neutral or value association with disability could be found. Sources of power are in the reevaluation of the existent values. On some conditions a turnover is possible from stigma to charism. It can occur by cultural paradigm shift (from pathogenesis to salutogenesis, about the concept of resilience, through the research in disability studies or the education of peer counseling, via ritual or reframing) or founded in religion. Art of Life is a philosophical fact. Interested groups have taken care of Art of Life through all times of history without hardship since antiquity. The question about the best passway of living can be a help for all persons, who want more than a simple life. Art of Life is close to art. This is a challenge for unartistic men. Wilhelm Schmid, the philosopher of Art of Life (the dissertation follows his ideas) said: “Scripture is a fluid of art, to guide and create the living, a gesture of existence and constitution of thyself. The individual is shaping himself/herself in this exercise.” So the creative writing will be the medium of work on one’s own personal life. Some studies of the last years show creative writing has healing power: physical, psychological and social. People who have limited possibilities due to disability find writing is an ideal way for creating their lives. The dissertation proof is on the basis of 24 evaluated texts.

This study discusses the importance of theories of care that are especially relevant to students in middle school art classes. Middle school students are going through an increasing number of changes emotionally, mentally, and cognitively that can be explored through an art curriculum that teaches them the value of caring for themselves and others, while also meeting their developmental needs. In this thesis research, teaching strategies are discussed that will cultivate an environment of care in the middle school classroom. This information will be used in the construction of developmentally sequenced art lessons that put these caring attitudes, strategies, and practices into action through art studio and criticism lessons incorporating the national art education standards.

Mémoire (M.A)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2001. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Lorsqu’il s’agit, aujourd’hui tout comme hier, de se mesurer à l’art de vivre des stoïciens, dans cette mise à l’épreuve de cette philosophie et de ces dogmes autant que de nous-mêmes, il convient de nous assurer d’un style, lequel sera assumé comme une méthode ; et cela, afin de provoquer cette altérité étrange, ces consonances et ces tensions qui ne manquent pas de s’installer au cœur de l’événement et du vivre philosophiques. C’est alors que la forme de l’essai épousera le mieux notre propos puisqu’il s’inscrit dans cette tentative moderne (depuis Montaigne) d’une assurance et d’une défiance de soi vis-à-vis de soi et, à la fois, vis-à-vis des pratiques étonnantes d’une subjectivité antérieure et déviante nous obligeant à rendre compte de ce que nous sommes. Cette situation, de fait, paradoxale nous amène à constituer un continuum fictionnel, mais qui a sa part de vérité fonctionnelle, dans la circonscription de la thématique envisagée : le champ de la sociabilité passionnelle et somatique du stoïcisme sera valorisé, dans l’essai de représenter ce que, pour eux et pour nous, signifierait l’attitude stylistique de composer l’imagination au service de la raison ; le refuge, chez Marc-Aurèle, dans la « citadelle intérieure » -le principe hégémonique- conduit et régule l’écriture d’une méditation à l’autre en sorte qu’elle ne se perde dans la transcription des émois du cœur et dans le vague à l’âme des sentiments diffus et chimériques ; mais l’effet thérapeutique se dissipe, une fois la méditation achevée. Hadot et Foucault dans leurs lectures conjointes, mais surtout différenciées, nous permettent de raviver cet art de vivre en mettant l’accent sur toutes une série de pratiques, d’exercices spirituels, sur cette tension entre l’expressivité somatique et thérapeutique au regard de la sagesse ou au regard de processus et de formes de subjectivation et d’éprouver, ainsi, une actualité littéraire, via le dandysme, à laquelle la formule l’esthétique de l’existence semble nous convier. / If we have to compare, today as much as yesterday, our lifestyle with that of the Stoics, in testing this philosophy and these dogmas as much as ourselves, we should adopt a style, which will be assumed as a method; and that in order to cause this strange otherness, the consonances and these tensions do not fail to settle in the heart of the event and the philosophical way of living. Then the form of the essay will best match our purpose as it is part of this modern attempt (since Montaigne) of assurance and suspicion in relation to ourselves and, at the same time, in relation to the amazing practices of previous and deviant subjectivity, forcing us to realize what we are. This, in fact, paradoxical situation leads us to constitute a fictional continuum, but it has a piece of functional truth in the realm of the envisioned topic: the field of sociability of passions and the somatic sociability of stoicism is valued, in trying to represent what, for them and for us, the stylistic attitude would mean, composing the imagination in service of reason; the refuge, in Marcus Aurelius, in the “inner citadel” - the guiding principle - leads and regulates the writing from one meditation to the next so that the writing does not lose itself in the mere transcription of the feelings of the heart and the melancholic, diffuse and deceptive emotions; but the therapeutic effect wears off, once the meditation is completed. Hadot and Foucault in their joint lectures, but especially differentiated lectures, allow us to revive this art of living by focusing on a whole series of practices, spiritual exercises, and on this tension between the somatic and therapeutic expression in view of wisdom or processes and forms of subjectivation and experience, as well as, a contemporary literary phenomenon, via dandyism, to which the formula aesthetics of existence seems to invite us.