Die Analyse vergleicht Installationen von Bruce Nauman und Olafur Eliasson ausgehend von der Fragestellung, wie sich die künstlerischen Performativitätsstrategien der 1960er/70er Jahren und die der zeitgenössischen Kunst in ihren Wirkungen und Effekten unterscheiden lassen. Dabei werden die Positionen der beiden Künstler als paradigmatisch für eine Ästhetik des Performativen angesehen. Neben dem Vergleich der Künstler steht die theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit der Diskursfigur der Performativität sowie deren methodischen Anwendbarkeit in der Kunstwissenschaft im Vordergrund. Während sich Installationen der 1960er/70er Jahre besonders durch die psycho-physische Einwirkung auf die Sinneswahrnehmung des Betrachters auszeichnen und durchaus Schockeffekte beim Betrachter hervorrufen, befasst sich die zeitgenössische Kunstpraxis vornehmlich mit visuellen und poetischen Effekten, die eine kontemplative Rezeptionshaltung des Betrachters einfordern. Bruce Nauman war es ein Anliegen, den tradierten Status des Kunstwerks als ein zu Betrachtendes, das sich durch Begriffe wie Form, Ursprung und Originalität fassen ließ, in Frage zu stellen und stattdessen eine reale leibliche Erfahrung für den Betrachter nachvollziehbar werden zu lassen. Künstlern wie Olafur Eliasson geht es in den künstlerischen Produktionen vor allem um die Wahrnehmung der Wahrnehmung sowie der Erzeugung von Präsenzeffekten. Mit dem Aufkommen solcher Verfahren wurde deutlich, dass performative Installationen nach anderen Beschreibungsformen verlangten und, dass diese durch eine Ästhetik des Performativen gefasst werden können. Wie genau vollzieht sich der Wandel von den performativen Strategien der 1960er/70er Jahre zu denen der zeitgenössischen Installationskünstlern? Verläuft dieser vom Schock zur Poesie? / This analysis compares installations by Bruce Nauman and Olafur Eliasson based on the following question: How can artistic performative strategies of the 1960s/70s and those of contemporary art be differentiated in their impact and effect. As part of the analysis, both artists’ positions are considered as being paradigmatic for an aesthetic of the performative. In addition to the comparison of the artists, we are confronted with the theoretical discussion about the discursive figure of performativity as well as its methodological applicability in the science of art. Installations of the 1960s/70s are mainly characterized by the psychological and physical impact on the viewer’s perception and their ability to evoke shock effects from the viewer. By contrast, contemporary art practice deals predominantly with visual and poetic effects, demanding a contemplative state of reception. It was one of Bruce Nauman’s intentions to question the traditional status of a work of art as an object that needs to be viewed and defined through concepts, such as form, origin and originality. Instead, he intended to allow the viewer to comprehend it as a real and physical experience. Artists such as Olafur Eliasson, on the other hand, aim in their artistic productions at producing effects of presence by perceiving the perception. Through the emergence of such procedures, it has become evident that performative installations require other forms of description and can be understood through an aesthetic of the performative. How exactly did performative strategies of the 1960s/70s change compared to works by contemporary installation artists? Did they in fact evolve from shock to poetry?

Ângulos de uma caminhada lenta: exercícios de contenção, reiteração e saturação na obra de Bruce Nauman parte da discussão de um conjunto de trabalhos do artista norte-americano com o intuito de compreender a estrutura, os elementos constitutivos e os procedimentos característicos de sua produção. A obra de Bruce Nauman mantém uma projeção pública há mais de quatro décadas e contempla meios e materiais variados - das primeiras moldagens às recentes instalações sonoras, o artista passa pela performance, vídeo, fotografia, desenho, gravura e intervenção em escala urbana - e mobiliza, a despeito de sua natureza multifacetada, um conjunto recorrente de questões, algumas das quais em franco diálogo com a tradição da escultura. Além de interrogar a persistência de uma espécie de inteligência escultórica na obra, esta tese propõe examinar o modo peculiar com que Nauman lança mão de alguns procedimentos disseminados nas obras de artistas da sua geração, sobretudo o uso da repetição em chave distinta dos processos de seriação em voga na década de 1960. Nos trabalhos de Nauman, os procedimentos de reiteração, redução, contenção e permutação de poucos elementos tendem a promover experiências de saturação e de extenuação, e, nesse sentido, aproximam-se de certos aspectos da obra de Samuel Beckett; duas linguagens artísticas diferentes que, todavia, mantêm pontos de convergência temática e formal / Angles of a slow walk: exercises in restraint, reiteration and saturation in the work of Bruce Nauman has as its starting point a discussion of a representative array from among the artist\'s production that seeks to obtain a greater understanding of the structure, constitutive elements and specific procedures found in his work. Nauman\'s production has sustained its popular prominence for more than four decades, and spanned an impressively wide spectrum of means and materials - from the early castings and moldings to the recent sound installations, through performance, video, photography, drawing, engraving, print and urban scale interventions - which summons, in spite of its multifarious nature, a persistent, recurring set of questions, some of which engage the sculptural tradition in an open and challenging dialogue. In addition to assessing the endurance of this type of sculptural intelligence in the artist\'s production, the thesis aims at examining the idiosyncratic way in which Nauman employs certain artistic procedures common to the works of artists of his generation, in particular his use of repetition in a fashion quite distinct from the serial processes en vogue in the 1960s; furthermore, the thesis attempts to uncover a number of formal convergences between Nauman\'s procedures in a significant assortment of pieces, and Samuel Beckett\'s body of work, with an emphasis on the exhaustive recombination of minimal elements as well as the use of repetition, suppression and restraint as fundamental mechanisms to promote a saturation of experience.

Ângulos de uma caminhada lenta: exercícios de contenção, reiteração e saturação na obra de Bruce Nauman parte da discussão de um conjunto de trabalhos do artista norte-americano com o intuito de compreender a estrutura, os elementos constitutivos e os procedimentos característicos de sua produção. A obra de Bruce Nauman mantém uma projeção pública há mais de quatro décadas e contempla meios e materiais variados - das primeiras moldagens às recentes instalações sonoras, o artista passa pela performance, vídeo, fotografia, desenho, gravura e intervenção em escala urbana - e mobiliza, a despeito de sua natureza multifacetada, um conjunto recorrente de questões, algumas das quais em franco diálogo com a tradição da escultura. Além de interrogar a persistência de uma espécie de inteligência escultórica na obra, esta tese propõe examinar o modo peculiar com que Nauman lança mão de alguns procedimentos disseminados nas obras de artistas da sua geração, sobretudo o uso da repetição em chave distinta dos processos de seriação em voga na década de 1960. Nos trabalhos de Nauman, os procedimentos de reiteração, redução, contenção e permutação de poucos elementos tendem a promover experiências de saturação e de extenuação, e, nesse sentido, aproximam-se de certos aspectos da obra de Samuel Beckett; duas linguagens artísticas diferentes que, todavia, mantêm pontos de convergência temática e formal / Angles of a slow walk: exercises in restraint, reiteration and saturation in the work of Bruce Nauman has as its starting point a discussion of a representative array from among the artist\'s production that seeks to obtain a greater understanding of the structure, constitutive elements and specific procedures found in his work. Nauman\'s production has sustained its popular prominence for more than four decades, and spanned an impressively wide spectrum of means and materials - from the early castings and moldings to the recent sound installations, through performance, video, photography, drawing, engraving, print and urban scale interventions - which summons, in spite of its multifarious nature, a persistent, recurring set of questions, some of which engage the sculptural tradition in an open and challenging dialogue. In addition to assessing the endurance of this type of sculptural intelligence in the artist\'s production, the thesis aims at examining the idiosyncratic way in which Nauman employs certain artistic procedures common to the works of artists of his generation, in particular his use of repetition in a fashion quite distinct from the serial processes en vogue in the 1960s; furthermore, the thesis attempts to uncover a number of formal convergences between Nauman\'s procedures in a significant assortment of pieces, and Samuel Beckett\'s body of work, with an emphasis on the exhaustive recombination of minimal elements as well as the use of repetition, suppression and restraint as fundamental mechanisms to promote a saturation of experience.

No description available.

This thesis is an attempt to de-construct the linear way in which I describe my work. I am attempting to deal with my family’s background in the theater and identity as a Texan. In addition I am attempting to address my interest in phenomenological concerns. This document was created in Microsoft Word 2000. The video portions of the video were edited on Imovie HD and Final Cut Pro, while the audio text was recorded from TextEdit’s text to speech program.