This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Susan Richmond, committee chair; Nancy Floyd, Maria P. Gindhart, committee members. Electronic text (127 p. : iil. (mostly col.)) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 20, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-127).

DIZERTAČNÍ PRÁCE Mgr. Markéta Bauerová Ústav etnologie (původně Katedra teorie kultury) FF UK Obor: Obecná teorie a dějiny umění a kultury kombinované doktorské studium školitel: Doc.PhDr. Martin Soukup, Ph. D. ANOTACE DIZERTAČNÍ PRÁCE Antropologie umění a tetování lidského těla jako umělecké dílo Tato práce pojednává o umělecké tvorbě, lidské imaginaci a univerzálním, hluboce zakořeněném tvůrčím pudu člověka v kontextu antropologie. Autorka se ve svém výzkumu zaměřila na fenomén tetování lidského těla, jeho historii, současnost, sociologický a estetický rozměr. Výzkum se snaží prokázat, že umělecké tetování má potenciál stát se právoplatným uměleckým oborem. Anthropology of art and human body tattoos as an artwork This work deals with the artistic creation, the human imagination and universal, deeply rooted creative instinct of man in the context of anthropology. The author in her research focused on the tattoo phenomenon, its history, present, sociological and aesthetic dimension. The research seeks to demonstrate that artistic tattoo has a potential to become a recognized art discipline.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-20T17:09:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-01-28. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-08-20T17:26:45Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000843472_20170128.pdf: 632801 bytes, checksum: 954e84352632497437b475ca438b8f7d (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2017-02-03T10:35:39Z: 000843472_20170128.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2017-02-03T10:36:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000843472.pdf: 5734204 bytes, checksum: fadb57caf38fdae837402f9f17dab35c (MD5) / As rupturas produzidas pela coexistência de acontecimentos na (trans)contemporaneidade tornam cada vez mais complexas as conexões insurgentes entre corporalidades e estilos de vida, sendo esses pontos múltiplos e estratégicos nos processos de subjetivação. Experiências, desejos, sensações e sensibilidades aos prazeres, assim como as (trans)formações nos e pelos corpos têm configurado amplos contextos de colisões no campo das construções éticas e estéticas. Esses embates urgem entre modelos normatizados e normatizadores e outros projetos corporais apresentados sob a forma de estéticas singulares - que buscam romper com o ordinário, o referenciado, o instituído. Nas produções da relação poder-saber-prazer, as corporalidades extrapolam e borram seus limites definidores e identitários, produzindo desarranjos na lógica da inteligibilidade que nos colocam diante de novas possibilidades de pensar epistemologias e métodos potencializadores nos estudos sobre os humanos como sendo projetos de experimentações em intersecção com uma multiplicidade de elementos heterogêneos dispostos no campo social. Deste modo, esta pesquisa de doutoramento objetivou problematizar a insurgência dos processos de produções de singularidades corporais e de modos de subjetivação resistentes às éticas e estéticas das matrizes dominantes. Para tanto, optamos pela perspectiva do método cartográfico para analisar as expressões e práticas sociais de sujeitos ditos abjetos que (des)constroem seus corpos e (re)montam estéticas inventivas e criadoras, frequentemente encaradas como expressão de revolta aos olhares disciplinados e disciplinadores. Os apontamentos conclusivos trazidos pela incursão do campo social e pelas entrevistas realizadas com colaboradores indicaram que, embora existam linhas de produção de subjetividades que se mantenham normatizadas, é possível observar que as modificações... / Disruptions produced by the coexistence of events in (trans)contemporaneity make the insurgent connections between corporeality and lifestyles more complex, being those multiple and strategic points in the process of subjectivation. Experiences, desires, sensations and sensibilities to pleasures as well as the (trans) formations in and by the bodies have set larger contexts of collisions in the field of ethical and aesthetic constructions.These conflicts urge between normalized and normative models and other body projects presented as singular aesthetics - which seek to break with the ordinary, the referenced, the established. In the production of the power-knowledge-pleasure relations, the corporeality extrapolates and crosses its defining and identitary boundaries, bringing forth disorder in the logic of intelligibility, which place us in front of new possibilities to think of more potent epistemologies and methods regarding studies on humans as experimentation projects intersecting with a variety of heterogeneous elements arranged in the social field. Thus, this doctoral research aimed to problematize the insurgency of body singularities production processes and modes of subjectivation resistant to ethical and aesthetic of the dominant matrices. Therefore, we chose the cartography method perspective to analyze the expressions and social practices of so called abject subjects who (de)construct their bodies and (re)assemble inventive and creative aesthetic, often seen as expression of revolt by the disciplined and disciplinarian eye. Conclusive notes brought by the incursion of the social field and by interviews with participants indicated that, although there are subjectivity production lines which remain normalized, it is possible to observe that the techniques of body modification may produce, besides subversive corporealities, resistance to moralist discursive models and possibilities to...

Orientador: Wiliam Siqueira Peres / Banca: Dolores Cristina Gomes Galindo / Banca: Angela Aparecida Donini / Banca: Paulo Roberto de Carvalho / Banca: Leonardo Lemos de Souza / Resumo: As rupturas produzidas pela coexistência de acontecimentos na (trans)contemporaneidade tornam cada vez mais complexas as conexões insurgentes entre corporalidades e estilos de vida, sendo esses pontos múltiplos e estratégicos nos processos de subjetivação. Experiências, desejos, sensações e sensibilidades aos prazeres, assim como as (trans)formações nos e pelos corpos têm configurado amplos contextos de colisões no campo das construções éticas e estéticas. Esses embates urgem entre modelos normatizados e normatizadores e outros projetos corporais apresentados sob a forma de estéticas singulares - que buscam romper com o ordinário, o referenciado, o instituído. Nas produções da relação poder-saber-prazer, as corporalidades extrapolam e borram seus limites definidores e identitários, produzindo desarranjos na lógica da inteligibilidade que nos colocam diante de novas possibilidades de pensar epistemologias e métodos potencializadores nos estudos sobre os humanos como sendo projetos de experimentações em intersecção com uma multiplicidade de elementos heterogêneos dispostos no campo social. Deste modo, esta pesquisa de doutoramento objetivou problematizar a insurgência dos processos de produções de singularidades corporais e de modos de subjetivação resistentes às éticas e estéticas das matrizes dominantes. Para tanto, optamos pela perspectiva do método cartográfico para analisar as expressões e práticas sociais de sujeitos ditos abjetos que (des)constroem seus corpos e (re)montam estéticas inventivas e criadoras, frequentemente encaradas como expressão de revolta aos olhares disciplinados e disciplinadores. Os apontamentos conclusivos trazidos pela incursão do campo social e pelas entrevistas realizadas com colaboradores indicaram que, embora existam linhas de produção de subjetividades que se mantenham normatizadas, é possível observar que as modificações... / Abstract: Disruptions produced by the coexistence of events in (trans)contemporaneity make the insurgent connections between corporeality and lifestyles more complex, being those multiple and strategic points in the process of subjectivation. Experiences, desires, sensations and sensibilities to pleasures as well as the (trans) formations in and by the bodies have set larger contexts of collisions in the field of ethical and aesthetic constructions.These conflicts urge between normalized and normative models and other body projects presented as singular aesthetics - which seek to break with the ordinary, the referenced, the established. In the production of the power-knowledge-pleasure relations, the corporeality extrapolates and crosses its defining and identitary boundaries, bringing forth disorder in the logic of intelligibility, which place us in front of new possibilities to think of more potent epistemologies and methods regarding studies on humans as experimentation projects intersecting with a variety of heterogeneous elements arranged in the social field. Thus, this doctoral research aimed to problematize the insurgency of body singularities production processes and modes of subjectivation resistant to ethical and aesthetic of the dominant matrices. Therefore, we chose the cartography method perspective to analyze the expressions and social practices of so called abject subjects who (de)construct their bodies and (re)assemble inventive and creative aesthetic, often seen as expression of revolt by the disciplined and disciplinarian eye. Conclusive notes brought by the incursion of the social field and by interviews with participants indicated that, although there are subjectivity production lines which remain normalized, it is possible to observe that the techniques of body modification may produce, besides subversive corporealities, resistance to moralist discursive models and possibilities to... / Doutor

Orientador: Eusébio Lobo da Silva / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T06:14:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ferreira_AlexandreDonizete_D.pdf: 1235384 bytes, checksum: c87459678cac1c3af6283a9e11e6b0df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa traz consigo uma reflexão sobre o intérprete-criador através de seu corpoartista que se instaura como produtor e produto de si mesmo, na perspectivação de uma physis poética que é um conjunto de saberes que se dialogam para que este artista se construa em nuances realizantes dentro do espaço de seu corpo como sujeitação deliberada para que possa se realizar em momentos poéticos. Para tanto, o olhar se faz para o profundo daquilo que nos forma, nossa unidade fundante, a célula. Tal organismo traz consigo a propriedade de se modificar internamente pelo transito de experiências que já estão engendradas em seu interior e que produzirão novos comportamentos e estes gerarão novas experiências e novos comportamentos, em um ciclo ad inffinitum. Este ciclo será capaz de manifestar-se em estruturas de memórias que não serão somente em nível mental, mas corporal, produzindo um soma capaz de adentrar-se em si mesmo através dos núcleos de repertório. Isto pode colocar o artista da cena em um processo de desenvolvimento de capacidades e habilidades que serão postas em dialética permanentemente. Esta dialética não se faz por opostos, mas por equilíbrios que transportam tais polos em um complementar de dialogias que colocarão o intérprete-criador em situações por ele mesmo criadas para se compor em perspectivação estabelecendo conexões que serão suporte para a expressão de um complementar entre a Arte e a Vida Cênica, em [re]significações que repercutem no próprio atuar deste artista da cena / Abstract: This research brings a reflection on the artist - creator who through their artistbody is established as producers and products of himself , in perspectives of a physis poetic which is a set of knowledge that dialogue so that this artist is built on realizations nuances within the space of your body as sujeitação deliberate so that it can be held in poetic moments . Thus, the gaze makes for before- start , to deep in what way our founding unit , the cell . This body brings the property to modify internally by traffic experiences already engendered inside and produce new behaviors and these will generate new experiences and new behaviors in a cycle ad inffinitum. This cycle will be able to manifest itself in memory structures that are not only on the mental level , but body , producing a sum capable of entering into himself through the core repertoire of the artist to put the scene in a development process capabilities and skills that will be put in dialectical all the time . However, this does not happen by dialectical opposites , but balances that carry such poles in a complementary dialogs that put the artist -creator in situations created by himself to compose in perspectives establishing connections that will support the expression of a complementary between Art and Life , in [ re] meanings that resonate in the very act of this artist scene / Doutorado / Artes da Cena / Doutor em Artes da Cena

Master of Arts / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Robert K. Schaeffer / In recent years body modification practices such as the arts of tattooing and body piercing have experienced an increase in popularity. A close examination of previous research conducted on the topic revealed a dichotomous categorization of these practices as either acts of deviance or self-expression. In an effort to add to the research that strives to portray 'body art' as a means of identity formation, the current study took a qualitative approach to the examination of body modification practices and the individuals who participate in them. Throughout 2007, fifteen in-depth interviews were conducted with college-age individuals who had at least one visible piece of 'body art,' and were currently living in or around Manhattan, Kansas. An emphasis was placed on what motivated the individuals to participate in the arts of tattooing and/or body piercing and how they felt the physical alteration of their body had affected their subsequent social interactions and identity. A careful review of the interview transcripts revealed that the respondents had chosen to participate in body modification practices for a variety of reasons. Nine analytical categories were then created in an attempt to explain the key motivations for their participation in these practices and ultimately call into question whether these practices should continue to be viewed as "deviant." The findings also demonstrated that there is still a certain amount of stigma associated with the arts of tattooing and body piercing, especially within the workplace. Although some businesses and organizations require their employees to keep their artwork concealed during business hours, others simply refuse to hire any individual who has a visible piece of 'body art.' Thus, the knowledge gained from the respondents and their experiences provided insight into the thought processes involved in the decision to participate in body modification practices as well as shed light on discriminatory, appearance-based hiring practices.

This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

This hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry describes the lived experiences of three visibly tattooed teachers and what it is like to sense their tattooed flesh while they are at school. Lived experience descriptions were collected during in-depth interviews and from personal reflective writings conducted by the study author, who is also a tattooed teacher. Using hermeneutic research approaches outlined by Max van Manen and Linda Finlay, lifeworld descriptions of visibly tattooed teachers are presented in the form of anecdotal passages that urge readers to ‘step into tattooed skin’. Drawing from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception, Luce Irigaray’s work on intersubjectivity, Michel Foucault’s notion of the disciplinary gaze, theories of the look in education forwarded by Madeline Grumet, and Judith Butler’s notion of subversive bodies, meanings are made of tattooed teachers’ experiences of adopting uncomfortable teacher identities and then growing comfortable in their professional roles. Through hermeneutic analysis, five main themes are presented, constituting the “essences” of the phenomemon of living as a visibly tattooed teacher: Trying to Fit; Mis-fit; Fit. You? Fit You!; Fitting In; and One Size Does Not Fit All.

Orientador: Matteo Bonfitto Júnior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T09:42:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Minozzi_CarolinaNicolino_M.pdf: 3593026 bytes, checksum: 221bbb0215dfff4a5ee1f5cf38b32764 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem como campo de investigação os "estados corporais" que permeiam as criações em dança contemporânea. A investigação, que possui um caráter teórico-prático, tem como principal fonte o diário de campo com registros e reflexões sobre processos de criação e exploração de "estados corporais". A pesquisa corporal se deu principalmente dentro do contexto do Núcleo Artérias (São Paulo-SP), dirigido por Adriana Grechi e, paralelamente, com o Grupo Vão (São Paulo-SP), coletivo de dança do qual a pesquisadora é integrante e codiretora. A partir da prática e das questões geradas por esse fazer, a dissertação traça paralelos entre artistas e pesquisadores que possam contribuir para a contextualização e problematização em torno do termo "estado corporal", discutindo os elementos presentes na criação artística e analisando qualitativamente as atividades experimentais da pesquisa. Desse modo, a reflexão emerge do entrelaçamento entre experiências em processos criativos, leitura dos materiais bibliográficos, análise de obras coreográficas e entrevista com artistas, com o interesse de abordar o campo de pesquisa "estados corporais" como catalisador de questões para a dança na contemporaneidade / Abstract: This dissertation has as its research field the "body states" that are related to creation in contemporary dance. The investigation, which has a theorist practical study, has as its main source the journey about experience of the "body states" creation. The body research mainly happened inside of the Núcleo Artérias (São Paulo-SP) context and at the same time with Grupo Vão (São Paulo-SP), a dance collective that the researcher is dancer and codirect. Taking the practice as a starting point, the dissertation draws parallel between artists and researchers that may contribute to the discussion around "body states" by discussing the elements in artistic creation and by qualitative analyzing of experimental activities of this research. By this way, the reflection emerges from de interlacement between the experience in creative processes, reading the bibliography, analyses of choreographic works and interviews with artists, aiming to approach the field research "body states" as a catalyzer of issues to the contemporary dance / Mestrado / Teatro, Dança e Performance / Mestra em Artes da Cena