The diploma thesis "Body art - the functional and symbolic meanings of tatoo and piercing" focuses on body modifications that are used as body art and which have become fashionable as a cultural and social phenomenon in the contemporary society. First part of the thesis introduces a basic theoretical framework and sets the subject into the context, which the author presents in such a way that even a laic can benefit from the paper. Theoretical part defines the terms and introduces first archeological findings connected with this cultural phenomenon. Further on the paper introduces examples of body art from selected traditional cultures and describes the way, which this phenomenon undertook to the contemporary western society. At the end of the theoretical part categories of functional and symbolic meaning, which the body art can acquire, are introduced. Second part presents qualitative research that focuses on functional and symbolic meanings, that the body art in contemporary society acquires. Statements of twenty-two people who talk about their body art can be found here. At the end of the paper you will find out which functional and symbolic meanings of body art are the same among the contemporary society and the primitve one, how do they differ or which functional and symbolic meanings have vanised...

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2005. / Principal faculty advisor: Gibson, Ann E., Dept. of Art History. Includes bibliographical references.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A pesquisa Corpolimite parte do discurso de onde a fisicalidade e experiência informe do corpo que atravessa camadas, dos rituais de passagem às políticas urbanas, cria complexidades e zonas desestabilizantes que revelam saberes via percepção e sentidos através da experiência poética em carne-viva. Partindo da perspectiva das modificações corporais no contexto das transformações extremas (como tatuagens, piercings, escarificação, implantes e suspensão corporal) o trabalho traça um percurso errático acerca das práticas de corpo que borram fronteiras, abrem fissuras e desviam, criando novos caminhos poéticos, novos jogos de significação. Baseando-se numa escrita poética e biográfica, o texto mistura imagem e palavra de forma a elaborar uma trama das complexidades envolvidas nos processos descritos. Trabalhando no campo da Performance Art e da Body Art o discurso arte-vida é permanente, trazendo à tona traços da vida cotidiana. Estes rastros transbordam e jorram pelo texto que é carne, matéria viva deste corpo de papel / Bodylimit is a study based on a discourse in which both the physicality and the amorphous experiences of the body as it crosses through layers of situations ranging from rites of passage to urban policies create complexities and zones of destabilization that reveal different forms of knowledge through sense perception and through a poetic experience felt in living flesh. Viewing body modification within the context of extreme transformations (such as tattoos, piercings, scarification, implants, and suspension), the research traces an erratic path through physical practices that blur borders and open fissures and detours to create new poetic paths and new games of signification. Utilizing a poetic and autobiographical writing style, the text mixes images and words to elaborate a web based on the complexities involved in the physical processes it describes. The study situates itself in the fields of Performance Studies and Body Art, in which the discourse of art-life is a permanent phenomenon that brings traces of quotidian life to the forefront of the text. These traces spill and overflow throughout the flesh-text, which is the living material in this body of paper

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A pesquisa Corpolimite parte do discurso de onde a fisicalidade e experiência informe do corpo que atravessa camadas, dos rituais de passagem às políticas urbanas, cria complexidades e zonas desestabilizantes que revelam saberes via percepção e sentidos através da experiência poética em carne-viva. Partindo da perspectiva das modificações corporais no contexto das transformações extremas (como tatuagens, piercings, escarificação, implantes e suspensão corporal) o trabalho traça um percurso errático acerca das práticas de corpo que borram fronteiras, abrem fissuras e desviam, criando novos caminhos poéticos, novos jogos de significação. Baseando-se numa escrita poética e biográfica, o texto mistura imagem e palavra de forma a elaborar uma trama das complexidades envolvidas nos processos descritos. Trabalhando no campo da Performance Art e da Body Art o discurso arte-vida é permanente, trazendo à tona traços da vida cotidiana. Estes rastros transbordam e jorram pelo texto que é carne, matéria viva deste corpo de papel / Bodylimit is a study based on a discourse in which both the physicality and the amorphous experiences of the body as it crosses through layers of situations ranging from rites of passage to urban policies create complexities and zones of destabilization that reveal different forms of knowledge through sense perception and through a poetic experience felt in living flesh. Viewing body modification within the context of extreme transformations (such as tattoos, piercings, scarification, implants, and suspension), the research traces an erratic path through physical practices that blur borders and open fissures and detours to create new poetic paths and new games of signification. Utilizing a poetic and autobiographical writing style, the text mixes images and words to elaborate a web based on the complexities involved in the physical processes it describes. The study situates itself in the fields of Performance Studies and Body Art, in which the discourse of art-life is a permanent phenomenon that brings traces of quotidian life to the forefront of the text. These traces spill and overflow throughout the flesh-text, which is the living material in this body of paper

Orientadores: Renato Ferracini, Fernando Antonio Pinheiro Villar de Queiroz / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T21:43:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rabelo_AntonioFlavioAlves_M.pdf: 36129903 bytes, checksum: b5234e414478336fc8d9c66965cf758f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação, desenvolvemos uma pesquisa prática-conceitual sobre os paradoxos dos processos criativos do corpo-em-arte. Esta corporeidade é experimentada no terreno da performance artística em espaços alternativos públicos e privados. O processo da pesquisa está relacionado à criação, execução, documentação, reflexão e análise da série de performances intitulada ",Corpoestranho,". Sua base conceitual está associada ao conceito de Corpo Subjétil em Ferracini (2006), a partir das noções de rizoma, CsO, devir e acontecimento em Deleuze (1995, 2007). Nesta pesquisa, problematizamos a busca por procedimentos para o corpo-em-arte (corpo subjétil) articulados pelos encontros da "Rede de Afetos" do nosso processo criativo, assumindo os aspectos coletivos inerentes a ação criativa e a processualidade enquanto obra (Cohen, 2004). Dessa forma, o ",corpoestranho," se configura como um corpo em processo, corpo fronteira e paradoxal. Um corpo rizomático, virtualizado e atualizado (Lévy, 1996) na trama dessa "Rede de Afetos", a partir da relação dos micro-elementos internos e externos que o compõe. Corpo entre o "eu" e o "outro", corpo em transbordamento, posto em relação com o espaço, o tempo e os outros corpos. / Abstract: In this dissertation, we have developed a conceptual-practical research about the paradoxes of the creative processes of the body in art. This corporeity is experimented in the subject of artistic performance in public and private alternative spaces. The research process is related to creation, execution, documentation, reflection and analysis of the series of performances named ",Corpoestranho,". Its conceptual basis is associated with the concept of Corpo Subjétil in Ferracini (2006), from the notions of rhizome, CsO, deviance and event in Deleuze (1995, 2007). In this research, we have problemized the search for procedures for the body in art (corpo subjétil) articulated by the meetings of "Rede de Afetos" of our creative process, admitting the collective aspects inherent to the creative action and the processuality as work (Cohen, 2004). In this way, the ",corpoestranho," is configurated as a body in process, boundary and paradoxal body. A rhizomatous body, virtualized and up-to-date (Lévy, 1996) in the scheme of this "Rede de Afetos", from the relation of the internal and external micro-elements that forms it. Body between "me" and "other", body in overflow, put in relation to space, time and other bodies. / Mestrado / Artes Cenicas / Mestre em Artes

Orientador: Renato Ferracini / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T21:39:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rabelo_AntonioFlavioAlves_D.pdf: 197057913 bytes, checksum: de52fee585dd1dcfe1402ccdc9b14085 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa cartográfica se propõe a realizar uma investigação estética-conceitual sobre as relações entre visibilidade e invisibilidade no processo criativo do corpo-em-arte. Do ponto de vista conceitual e metodológico, a pesquisa se insere num Projeto Temático desenvolvido pelo LUME ¿ Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Teatrais ¿ UNICAMP sob a coordenação do Prof. Dr. Renato Ferracini e Profa. Dra. Suzi Frankl Sperber, chamado Memória(s) e pequenas percepções. Em sua articulação vertical e estreita com o projeto temático, essa cartografia trabalha o conceito de invisibilidade e sua relação intrínseca com processos práticos de criação artística. A pergunta e pressuposto básico dessa cartografia é tentar problematizar este conceito de invisibilidade, derivada aos conceitos chaves do temático: memória e micropercepção. Em nosso desenho, o conceito de invisibilidade tem nos conceitos de Corpo Vibrátil (Suely Rolnik); Virtual (Pierre Lévy e Gilles Deleuze), Zona de Turbulência e Corpo-Subjétil (Renato Ferracini) a potência inicial de trabalho. Este primeiro traçado conceitual levou a cartografia ao conceito de Espelhamento de Forças (José Gil) e a Teoria do Afetos (Espinosa). Tal problematização se desenha atravessada pelo processo de criação e apresentações do Projeto Hotel Medea através de suas Residências Artísticas (entre 2007 e 2012). Uma cartografia da jornada vivenciada como artista integrante de tal projeto, pontuado por uma abordagem que deriva entre alguns paradoxos das experiências limítrofes a ele atrelados. A abordagem processual e intensiva do Projeto Hotel Medea articula, assim, do ponto de vista prático, os conceitos e questões desta pesquisa de doutorado: a invisibilidade experimentada como uma potência, força ou campo de vibração agenciadora de ações que possam sustentar a presença/organicidade do corpo dos atores/performers / Abstract: This cartographic research aims to realize an aesthetic and conceptual research on the relationship between visibility and invisibility in the creative process of the body in art. Conceptually and methodologically, the research is part of a Thematic Project developed by LUME - Interdisciplinary Center for Theatrical Research - UNICAMP, under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Renato Ferracini and Dr. Frankl Suzi Sperber, called Memória(s) e pequenas percepções. In its vertical and close coordination with the Thematic Project, this cartography works with the concept of invisibility and its intrinsic relationship to practical processes of artistic creation. The question and basic assumption of this cartography is trying to problematize this concept of invisibility, derivative to key concepts of the Thematic Project: Memory and Microperception. In our drawing, the concept of invisibility has the concepts of Vibrating Body (Suely Rolnik ); Virtual (Pierre Lévy and Gilles Deleuze), Turbulence Zone and Subjétil Body (Renato Ferracini ) within the initial power of the work. This first conceptual route led the cartografy to the concept of Mirroring of Forces (José Gil) and the Theory of Affections (Espinosa). Such questioning has been drawn from and traversed by the creation process and presentation of the Hotel Medea Project through its Artist Residency process (between 2007 and 2012). A cartography of the journey experienced as a member of Hotel Medea, punctuated by an approach that drifts between some paradoxes of borderline experiences linked to that Project. So, the processual and intensive approach of the Hotel Medea Project articulates from a practical point of view the concepts and questions of this doctoral research: the invisibility experienced as a power, force or field vibration of actions that can sustain the presence/organicity of the body of the actors/performers / Doutorado / Teatro, Dança e Performance / Doutor em Artes da Cena

Orientador: Marta Luiza Strambi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T07:36:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ribeiro_LindsayCarolinedeBrito_M.pdf: 125254615 bytes, checksum: a4b3389170cb274dc99bcee0a1d89c26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta dissertação, inserida na linha de pesquisa em "Poéticas Visuais e Processos de Criação", consiste num relacionamento entre pesquisas prática e teórica, incluindo uma análise crítica através de textos sobre minha produção plástica que tem ênfase na problemática da autoimagem, uma distorção da aparência física, que surge como mais um sintoma das neuroses contemporâneas, acometendo, principalmente, as adolescentes que aspiram a um corpo construído, alimentado pelos sistemas da moda e do consumo. Considera ainda a ideia do desenho como conceito de intertextualidade e relaciona, entre os procedimentos e possibilidades de concepção e produção dos trabalhos, essas questões do corpo conexas à ordem cotidiana, à "brevidade e fragilidade da vida", refletidas nessa estética do corpo contemporâneo. O corpus imagético dessa pesquisa torna-se um elemento problematizador de articulações crítico reflexivas, envolvendo a ampliação de repertório na área da arte contemporânea / Abstract: This dissertation, part of the "Visual Poetics and Creation Processes" line of research, focus on the relationship between practical and theoretical research, including a critical analysis of texts about my artistic production that has an emphasis on the issue of self-image, a distortion of physical appearance, which arises as another symptom of contemporary neuroses, having as main target those teenagers who aspire to an artificial body, powered by systems of fashion and consumption. It also considers the idea of drawing as a concept of intertextuality and links between the procedures and possibilities for design and production work, these body issues related to the everyday routine, the "brevity and fragility of life", reflected in this contemporary aesthetics of the body. The image corpus of this research becomes a problematizing element of critical reflective relations, involving the expansion of the repertoire in the field of contemporary art / Mestrado / Artes Visuais / Mestre em Artes Visuais

Entre les décennies 1960 et 1980 émergent les courants de l’« art de la performance », du « happening », du « body art », de l’« art corporel » ou encore de l’« art de l’action », qui désignent les démarches des nombreux plasticiens qui font directement intervenir le corps, souvent leur propre corps, dans leurs travaux. À travers les productions des acteurs qui soutiennent ces courants le corps est fabriqué comme un sujet légitime d’attention et de valeur. La thèse décrit l’émergence de ces courants artistiques pendant la décennie 1970 en soutenant qu’ils peuvent et doivent être interrogés comme des phénomènes sociaux. En effet, jamais auparavant autant d’acteurs des mondes de l’art visuel n’avaient décidé simultanément de se tourner vers le corps lui-même, et de le mettre à l’œuvre, à l’ouvrage, à l’épreuve. Interroger leurs productions du point de vue du corps peut permettre de dérouler de comprendre en profondeur la présence incisive et percutante du phénomène. Ces courants viennent poser des questions cruciales à l’anatomie du travail créateur : rapports sociaux de sexe, interactions avec les spectateurs, engagements politiques, marchandisation. L’étude, sociohistorique, focalise autour de trois scènes (France, côtes est et ouest des États-Unis) à partir d’un corpus d’archives documentaires (entretiens, critiques, essais, manifestes, notations, photographies). La thèse comprend un volet d’enquête qui mesure la reconnaissance de ces pratiques, un second volet d’histoire institutionnelle et intellectuelle qui décrit les savoir-faire et les modalités d’énonciation liés aux actions et aux événements et enfin, une topographie qui résume les modèles du corps produits par les gestes les raisonnements des artistes et de leurs commentateurs. / « Performance art », « body art » and « happenings » appeared on the art scene between the 1960s and the 1980s. The human body was at the heart of these artistic movements, to the extent that many artists embodied their own works. Within such creative processes and productions, the body undeniably became a legitimate subject of attention and value. This dissertation describes the initial stages of the art movements aforementioned, and argues that they must be analyzed as sociological phenomenons. Never before had such a larger of artists within the same time period decided to focus on the entity of the body itself, to use and misuse it so intensely. Observing their approaches through the lens of the body allows us to voice critical questions about the anatomy of a creative work - gender relations, interactions with the viewers, political commitments, and marketing. This sociohistorical research studies three landmark art scenes of the time (France, the east coast, and the west coast of the USA), by delving into a documentary material of archives (interviews, reviews, essays, manifestos, notations and photographs). The thesis begins with a sociological inquiry which measures the visibility of these artistic movements ; it is followed by a history of the institutional and critical apparatus which described the atistic skills and statements at work within body actions and happenings ; lastly, the dissertation presents a topography of the workings of the body, drawn from the artists’ performances and theoretical stances, as well as art critics’ viewpoints and analyses.