Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010. / Prepared for: Dept. of Art History. Title from resource description page. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Art History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-113). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11811

Esta pesquisa parte da constatação de uma insistente ocorrência de enunciados no modo verbal imperativo no campo da arte contemporânea. Esses comandos se inserem na própria configuração dos trabalhos artísticos, na forma de textos que funcionam como “instruções como arte”. A investigação se desenvolve no sentido de uma projeção anacrônica – da arte mais recente em direção à arte conceitual (anos 1960 e 70), em uma tentativa de apontar o que, no caso dos imperativos artísticos, poderia ser uma atualização de procedimentos e estratégias de um passado mais ou menos recente. Para tanto, a pesquisa recorre a dois estudos de caso: o primeiro sobre a exposição coletiva Located work (Madrid) (2008), concebida pelo norte-americano Joseph Kosuth, e o segundo sobre os três Estudos para espaço e tempo (1969-2001), do brasileiro Cildo Meireles. A análise revisa as disputas discursivas entre o conceitualismo político e o conceitual de viés tautológico, sinalizando para uma precariedade de conceitos e narrativas. / This research rises from the verification of the somewhat frequent use of the imperative form in statements in contemporary art. The commands are inserted in the art work itself in the form of “texts” that function as “instructions as art”. The investigation is developed in an anachronic projection – from the most recent art towards conceptual art (1960’s and 70’s), attempting to point out what, in the case of artistic imperatives, could be an updating of procedures and past strategies. In order to do that, the research seeks two study cases: one regarding the exhibit Located work (Madrid) (2008), conceived by Joseph Kosuth, and the other about Estudos para espaço e tempo (1969-2001), by Cildo Meireles. The analysis discusses the discoursives disputes between political conceptualism and tautological conceptual art, indicating a current precariousness of concepts and narratives.

Esta pesquisa parte da constatação de uma insistente ocorrência de enunciados no modo verbal imperativo no campo da arte contemporânea. Esses comandos se inserem na própria configuração dos trabalhos artísticos, na forma de textos que funcionam como “instruções como arte”. A investigação se desenvolve no sentido de uma projeção anacrônica – da arte mais recente em direção à arte conceitual (anos 1960 e 70), em uma tentativa de apontar o que, no caso dos imperativos artísticos, poderia ser uma atualização de procedimentos e estratégias de um passado mais ou menos recente. Para tanto, a pesquisa recorre a dois estudos de caso: o primeiro sobre a exposição coletiva Located work (Madrid) (2008), concebida pelo norte-americano Joseph Kosuth, e o segundo sobre os três Estudos para espaço e tempo (1969-2001), do brasileiro Cildo Meireles. A análise revisa as disputas discursivas entre o conceitualismo político e o conceitual de viés tautológico, sinalizando para uma precariedade de conceitos e narrativas. / This research rises from the verification of the somewhat frequent use of the imperative form in statements in contemporary art. The commands are inserted in the art work itself in the form of “texts” that function as “instructions as art”. The investigation is developed in an anachronic projection – from the most recent art towards conceptual art (1960’s and 70’s), attempting to point out what, in the case of artistic imperatives, could be an updating of procedures and past strategies. In order to do that, the research seeks two study cases: one regarding the exhibit Located work (Madrid) (2008), conceived by Joseph Kosuth, and the other about Estudos para espaço e tempo (1969-2001), by Cildo Meireles. The analysis discusses the discoursives disputes between political conceptualism and tautological conceptual art, indicating a current precariousness of concepts and narratives.

A arte brasileira durante a década de 1970 se destacou pelo alto grau de experimentalismo e de contestação aos cânones tanto artísticos como museológicos. As exposições anuais Panorama da Arte Atua Brasileira e Jovem Arte Contemporânea, organizadas respectivamente pelo Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo e pelo Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, se dedicaram a expor e legitimar determinadas tendências da arte dita jovem e atual durante esse período. A análise comparativa proposta por essa pesquisa revela e discute os mecanismos de seleção, organização, premiação e apresentação de obras em ambas as exposições. O foco da pesquisa dá-se no ano de 1972, momento em que a edição da Jovem Arte Contemporânea apresenta grandes inovações, ano de intenso crescimento do mercado de artes paulistano, auge da repressão militar e em que o Panorama discute as categorias escultura e objeto. Buscou-se analisar as exposições dentro desse contexto maior, apontando como referências os encontros internacionais de diretores de museus e outras exposições paradigmáticas para o período realizadas na Europa e na América Latina. / Brazilian art from the 1970s is known for its high degree of experimentation and for challenging both artistic and museological canons. The annual exhibitions Panorama da Arte atual Brasileira and Jovem Arte Contemporânea, organized respectively by the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, are dedicated to exposing and legitimizing certain art trends during this period. The comparative analysis proposed by this research reveals and discusses the mechanisms of selection, organization, and presentation works in both exhibitions. The focus of the research takes place in 1972, when the show Jovem Arte Contemporânea presents major innovations and the Panorama discusses sculpture and object categories, the year is also marked by intense growth of the a São Paulo art market, the increase of military repression. We sought to examine the exhibitions within this larger context, taking as references the discussions that occurred in the international encounters of museums directors, and also other paradigmatic exhibitions for the period held in Europe and Latin America.

M.Tech. (Fine Art) / The development of contemporary artistic practice, often termed ‘new media’ art, has bought about new challenges in the re-interpretation of conservational data for the curatorial re-presentation of such artworks. These challenges are intensified in artworks of a non-traditional, transient, intangible and / or ephemeral nature. As such, new media works embrace dynamism and fluidity as part of their intangibility and ephemerality. The conservation of such works now requires consideration of the various elements that make up the work, particularly those where the medium predicates meaning. In this study I investigate the institutions and systems which intervene in this conservation of intangible and ephemeral art for future re-presentation and exhibition. I argue that, by compiling notational data (as a work’s ‘score’) of culturally significant ephemeral and intangible artworks the curator is required to refer to the gathered notational data as a reliable guideline for the re-presentation of a work’s ‘true nature’. This raises questions about which parts of an artwork form its true nature and which components are considered variable allowing them to be altered, replaced or migrated. Any re-presentation of the work is therefore dependent on a thorough investigation of the artwork’s essential elements in terms of the artist’s intent, as well as an in-depth contemplation of external / environmental influences. The dynamic (and thus true) nature of specific ephemeral and intangible art objects in the work of Olafur Eliasson, James Webb as well as my own upon, re-presentation, is the focus of this research study.

La thèse prétend discuter des analogies intimes révélées entre le travail de l’art conceptuel tel qu’il est conçu par Joseph Kosuth, comme un processus de production de sens, et le travail analytique tel qu’il est élaboré par Sigmund Freud. Elle travaille donc à partir de l’interface entre l’art et la psychanalyse comme deux expériences de production de signification. Elle interroge le sens à partir des particularités inhérentes à chacun des discours et des pratiques concernés, mais aussi à partir de ce qui semble les réunir, à savoir : les mécanismes impliqués dans la production de sens au sein de l’art conceptuel comme de la psychanalyse conduisent à une expression hybride relevant des rapports entre le langage et l’image, entre un discours qui se poste aux limites du dicible et une image qui se place aux limites du visible.L’hybridité du sens relève d’une incertitude intellectuelle, d’un franchissement des limites et d’une ambiguïté impliqués dans la notion de l’Unheimlich. Cette dimension singulière de l’expérience humaine concerne le sujet de l’inconscient et la création artistique. En suivant les déclarations de Joseph Kosuth lui-même, son travail relèverait de l’Unheimlich. La thèse analyse ainsi l’expérience procurée par l’art conceptuel à partir de cette notion qui apparaît dans l’oeuvre freudienne en 1919 dans le cadre d’une investigation sur l’esthétique.Freud ne parle de l’esthétique en tant que théorie du beau mais comme effet affectif procuré par l’oeuvre d’art. De notre côté, nous soutenons l’idée selon laquelle la création artistique relèverait toujours de l’affectivité, même si cette question peut s’avérer controversée dans le contexte de l’art conceptuel. C’est dans ce sens que nous analysons l’expérience procurée par le travail de Kosuth, c’est-à-dire comme une expérience affective de l’ordre de l’Unheimlich / This thesis proposes to discuss the analogies revealed between conceptual art work, as it is conceived by Joseph Kosuth, as a meaning production process, and the analytical work as elaborated by Sigmund Freud. We then work from the interface between art and psychoanalysis as two meaning producing experiences. We question the meaning from the particularities inherent in each of these discourses and practices involved, but also from what it seems to bring them together, namely: the mechanisms involved in the production of meaning in conceptual art as well as in psychoanalysis lead to a hybrid expression indicating the relationship between language and image, between a discourse that lies within the limits of the sayable and an image that is located within the limits of the visible.The hybridity of sense sends us to an intellectual uncertainty, a crossing of limits and an ambiguity that are related to the notion of Unheimlich. This singular dimension of human experience concerns the subject of the unconscious and artistic creation. Following the statements of Joseph Kosuth himself, his work fits into the dimension of Unheimlich. This thesis then analyzes the experience raised by conceptual art from this notion that appears in the Freudian work in 1919, in the context of a research on aesthetics.Freud doesn’t speak of aesthetics as a beauty theory, but as an affective effect promoted by the work of art. From our point of view, we hold the idea that artistic creation is always related to affectivity, even if it is a controversial issue with regard to conceptual art. It is in this sense that we analyze the experience promoted by the work of Kosuth, that is, as an affective experience of the order of the Unheimlich.

In this thesis, work has been carried out in order to explore the role of materiality in works of conceptual art – and what possible influence the preservation of such objects might have for their meaning within the context of a modern art museum. The study is divided into three parts, where the initial one examines the concept of materiality, the second part maps the history and complexity of conservation, and the final part is based on three case studies of individual artworks. The research is carried out through a literature study within the fields of conservation and art history, as well as different kinds of institutionally produced reports along with exhibition descriptions and art reviews. Interviews have also been carried out with a curator and conservators from two museums of contemporary art, Moderna museet in Stockholm and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-westfalen in Düsseldorff. One aspect of the study has been to, from a perspective of discourse theory, investigate whether any so-called antagonistic relationships could be identified within the practices of the art museum, between different professional attitudes towards the idea of preserving artworks where the materiality may or may not be of relevance for the conceptual integrity of the piece. No such antagonism has been observed, but rather a situation where the professional boundaries are blurred in relation to the individual object. In the theoretical forms of a communicative network, conservators, curators and the artist responsible for the piece engage in the custodial presentation of the artwork. In this work, traditional notions of preservation may give way to a process-oriented relationship with the object to enable a continuous relevance toward the public and as an active part of the contemporary art scene. Even if the context of the art museum establishes the physical limits of the conceptual art composition, the preservation of the artwork may be viewed as pragmatic in terms of its materiality – where a dialogue with the artist plays an important part in the management process. The role of materiality may thus be decisive for the realization of the conceptual idea within an artwork, but as long as the work may be considered as integral to a contemporary art scene the conservation of it may focus on other aspects than its specific physical elements. When, or if, the artwork evolves into a symbolic representation of for instance the artist’s production or an art historical era – when a contemporary significance is lost – the role of materiality may possibly change and require a different conservation-based perspective concurrent with traditional types of cultural artifacts. The identity of an artwork may be considered as continuously evolving and its meaning a matter of the time it exists in, where the materiality of the object communicates its relevance.

This study has revolved around the relationship between humans and nature. Its starting point was a plan to remediate antique ways of depicting landscape and nature, connected to theories about perceptual and conceptual depictions. Views of nature and their effect on stress levels are today studied in healthcare settings together with emotional state. The study aimed to investigate people's preference for different styles of images depicting nature (perceptual and conceptual style) and how or if they can vary with the context. / <p>There are other digital material (eg film, image or audio files) or models/artifacts that belongs to the thesis and need to be archived. / Det finns övrigt digitalt material (t.ex. film-, bild- eller ljudfiler) eller modeller/artefakter tillhörande examensarbetet som ska skickas till arkivet.</p>

[ES] Esta tesis doctoral se enfoca en explorar las potencialidades discursivas que se dan al construir una genealogía situada del arte de acción. Nuestra investigación se centra en el concepto de «lo mínimo» y analiza una serie de ideas que ayudan a definir tipologías específicas en este campo. En particular, utilizamos tres conceptos clave que nos guían en un recorrido histórico del arte de acción, destacando sus convergencias en lo mínimo perceptible -un sutil acontecimiento de la experiencia-, el espacio mínimo -una vacuidad experiencial- y el tiempo mínimo -un instante elusivo de experiencia-. Para lograr este objetivo, hemos desarrollado una narrativa híbrida, una suerte de historia acumulativa, que busca identificar repeticiones y elementos comunes en las prácticas artísticas que tomamos como objetos de estudio. Para respaldar nuestros argumentos, consideramos los contextos políticos y cronológicos específicos en los que estas prácticas surgieron, y utilizamos expresiones discursivas que ayudan a dar un sentido más completo y situado a nuestra interpretación. / [CA] Aquesta tesi doctoral s'enfoca a explorar les potencialitats discursives que es donen en construir una genealogia situada de l'art d'acció. La nostra investigació se centra en el concepte de «el mínim» i analitza una sèrie d'idees que ajuden a definir tipologies específiques en aquest camp. En particular, utilitzem tres conceptes clau que ens guien en un recorregut històric de l'art d'acció, destacant les seues convergències quant el mínim perceptible -un subtil esdeveniment de l'experiència-, l'espai mínim -una vacuïtat experiencial- i al temps mínim -un instant elusiu d'experiència-. Per a aconseguir aquest objectiu, hem desenvolupat una narrativa híbrida, una espècie d'història acumulativa, que busca identificar repeticions i elements comuns en les pràctiques artístiques que prenem com a objectes d'estudi. Per a recolzar els nostres arguments, considerem els contextos polítics i cronològics específics en els quals aquestes pràctiques van sorgir, i utilitzem expressions discursives que ajuden a donar un sentit més complet i situat a la nostra interpretació. / [EN] This doctoral thesis focuses on exploring the discursive potentials that arise when constructing a situated genealogy of action art. Our research centers on the concept of «the minimal» and analyzes a series of ideas that help define specific typologies in this field. Particularly, we employ three key concepts that guide us through a historical journey of performance art, highlighting their convergences regarding the minimally perceptible -a subtle occurrence of experience-, minimal space -an experiential void- and minimal time -an elusive moment of experience-. To achieve this goal, we have developed a hybrid narrative, a sort of cumulative history, that seeks to identify repetitions and common elements in the artistic practices we take as objects of study. To support our arguments, we consider the specific political and chronological contexts in which these practices emerged and utilize discursive expressions that contribute to a more comprehensive and situated interpretation. / Porras Soriano, Á. (2023). No pasa nada. Vinculaciones discursivas en torno al arte de acción mínima [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/201112