I aim to showcase post-African female identity through the exhibition, The princess in the veld. The exhibition displays selected works produced by South African women artists, underpinned by the proposed curatorial framework. This curatorial approach is feminist, and may allow for a liminal reading of local female identity. I premise my theorised curatorial framework liminally, in-between binary oppositions. This position allows for a feminist position and/or reading of female identities that simultaneously allude to, and reject a so-called local (essentialised) women’s art production within the ambit of global, Western dominated feminism. I argue that, for such a display to be successful, an alternative curatorial space is needed. For this purpose, I introduce the notion of heterotopia, a counter-space, to renegotiate binaries and to render identity formations temporarily in-between prevailing norms. This heterotopic counter-curatorial space is realised through an exhibition that employs the medium of video, rather than conventional exhibition media installed in real space. An exploration of specified key local and international survey exhibitions foregrounding women’s concerns from the 1980s onwards, serves to inform my theorised curatorial framework. The research embarks on an investigation of a recent large-scale exhibition hosted in France, to gain an understanding of the pitfalls prevalent in curating an exhibition of artwork produced by women. From a feminist standpoint, I critically analyse this display to suggest more inclusive alternative curatorial strategies to shift the conventionally Western approach followed by this curator. The revisionist, feminist, re-reading of certain South African curated exhibitions from both the apartheid and post-apartheid periods proposes a feminist trajectory that follows the shaping of local women’s identities, which remain deeply inscribed in this country’s politics and histories. This section of the survey underlines local post- African female identity as liminal and in flux, through the investigation of seminal exhibitions and artworks produced by South African women. I argue that this liminal account allows for an inclusive and extended understanding of women, while explicating the South African multicultural dispensation wherein the post-African woman operates. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2017. / National Research Foundation / University of Pretoria / Visual Arts / DPhil / Unrestricted

Le vieillissement de la population est un phénomène démographique auquel est confronté le Québec. Dans ce contexte, la protection des personnes inaptes et vulnérables, prendra de plus en plus d'importance au cours des prochaines années. Ces personnes doivent bénéficier d'une protection adéquate lors de l'ouverture d'un régime de protection à leur égard. Considérant que l'ouverture d'un régime de protection au majeur inapte est toujours le résultat d'une décision judiciaire, le greffier de la Cour supérieure du Québec a un rôle fondamental à jouer à l'occasion dans le processus judiciaire. À titre d'officier de justice, il a compétence pour prononcer le jugement d'ouverture du régime de protection. Par conséquent, le présent mémoire consiste à vérifier si les majeurs inaptes sont bien protégés par le rôle et les pouvoirs de l'officier de justice. Pour ce faire, le sujet à l'étude a fait l'objet d'une double approche. Dans un premier temps, le cadre juridique à l'intérieur duquel le greffier doit exécuter ses fonctions sera étudié. Dans un deuxième temps, les résultats et l'analyse d'une enquête empirique auprès des greffiers de la Cour supérieure du Québec seront exposés. Cette démarche permet une approche comparative entre la théorie et la pratique en la matière et permet de constater qu'il peut y avoir un écart entre les deux. / Aging population is a phenomenon faced by Quebec. In this context, the protection of incapacitated and vulnerable individuals will be increasingly important in the coming years and they should benefit adequate protection from the institution of protective supervision. Considering that the institution of protective supervision is always the result of a court order, the clerk of the Superior Court of Quebec has a fundamental role to play during the judicial process. The judicial officer has jurisdiction to pronounce the judgment of institution of protective supervision. The following study will attempt to verify whether the proven inapt persons are well protected under the actual system whereby the judicial officer has the function and the powers to decide. To do this, a two way analysis will be used. First, the legal framework within which the clerk shall perform its functions will be studied and second, the results and analysis of an empirical survey of clerks of the Superior Court of Quebec will be discussed. This approach should reveal the existing gap between theory and practice.

The aim of this investigation is to analyze the effects of incorporating scent-based elements in ethnographic exhibits. Specifically, it attempts to identify changes in patron response to a visual display, with and without a scent element. Groups of patrons were observed throughout their engagement with the exhibit, and interviewed post-engagement to generate data on information retention, opinion on content and empathetic response in relation to the exhibit. Findings suggest that the inclusion of scent did increase memorization of the limited facts reinforced through the scent element. However, there was no detectable difference between the groups on measures of overall comprehension of the subject matter, nor their empathetic responses toward the exhibited culture. The results of the study are discussed as a measure of the observer—observed dichotomy, and the argument is made that multisensory representation in the museum can aid in the facilitation of cross-cultural education. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Esta dissertação tem como objeto o programa de exposições intitulado Panorama da Arte Brasileira, criado pelo Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM SP) em 1969 após a transferência de seu acervo para a Universidade de São Paulo. O Panorama tinha como objetivo restabelecer a programação e, ao mesmo tempo, gerar um novo acervo para a instituição por meio da aquisição e da doação de obras a cada edição. A importância do Panorama para o reerguimento do museu e para a renovação de sua relação com o meio cultural justifica a pertinência deste estudo. Tomando como principal material de análise os textos curatoriais, discute-se como as premissas do programa, fundamentadas nos termos panorama, arte brasileira e atual, provocaram respostas distintas por parte dos curadores convidados ao longo dos anos. Parte-se da hipótese de que teria havido uma mudança de paradigma, iniciada em meados da década de 1990, que se consolidaria na virada dos anos 2000, quando o programa passa a ser curado por profissionais sem relação institucional com o MAM SP. A pesquisa aponta que ao longo desse período os discursos curatoriais tornaram-se autorreferentes e que a ideia de atual deixou de se relacionar aos trabalhos expostos e passou a materializar não só um pensamento crítico sobre eles, mas também uma reflexão mais ampla sobre a arte contemporânea brasileira e sua relação com a tradição modernista. Por fim, foi possível concluir que, a partir dos anos 2000, a problematização de uma espécie de mito de origem da arte contemporânea brasileira tornou-se recorrente no Panorama da Arte Brasileira e que os discursos curatoriais passaram a adotar o modernismo como o principal parâmetro para se pensar as características do que seria, ou no que se diferenciava, a arte nacional. / The focus of this dissertation is the program of exhibitions entitled Panorama da Arte Brasileira (Panorama of Brazilian Art) created by the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM SP) in 1969, after its collection was transferred to the University of São Paulo. The objective of the Panorama was to reestablish the program and, at the same time, create a new collection for the institution through acquisitions and donations of works to each edition. The importance of the Panorama to the reemergence of the museum and the renewal of its relationship with the cultural milieu justifies the focus of this study. Analyzing primarily curatorial texts, the study discusses how the premises of the program, founded on the terms panorama, Brazilian art and current, resulted in different responses from the guest curators over the years. It is based on the theory that there has been a change in paradigm, which began in the mid-1990s, and consolidated at the turn of the millennium, when the program began to be curated without an institutional relationship with MAM SP. The study shows that over this period the curatorial discourse became increasingly self-referencing and that the idea of current was no longer related to the works on exhibit and began to manifest, not only critical thought about them, but also a broader reflection on contemporary Brazilian art and its relationship with the modernist tradition. Finally, it was possible to conclude that, starting in the 2000s, questions surrounding a myth of origin of Brazilian contemporary art became recurrent in the Panorama of Brazilian Art and that the curatorial discourse began to adopt Modernism as the main parameter when considering the characteristics of what is national art.

A presente dissertação tem como foco a análise, através de um viés crítico, da proposta curatorial da 27ª Bienal de Arte de São Paulo, intitulada Como viver junto. Esta bienal é tomada como estudo de caso dentro do amplo contexto de bienais por ser considerada precursora, estabelecendo e institucionalizando algumas mudanças curatoriais, como o fim das representações nacionais. A 27ª Bienal de Arte de São Paulo liga-se a referências teóricas que se relacionam àquilo que Bruce Ferguson denomina de \"bienais discursivas\", termo que se refere ao fato de que conferências, eventos interdisciplinares, workshops, atividades educacionais e discussões públicas tem se tornado elementos cada vez mais importantes nesses projetos. Dentro do contexto desta discursividade expandida, a participação, a crítica institucional e um viés educacional têm sido estratégias recorrentes nas curadorias das bienais. Estes três elementos já estavam presentes em abordagens artísticas no mundo da arte e compõem juntos um campo discursivo composto de práticas dialógicas e relacionais que se replicam, ainda que com formatos variados, em bienais ao redor do mundo. A proposta curatorial da mostra foi estudada de forma a compreender os discursos envolvidos a partir do pensamento dos curadores e submetidos a um dado momento histórico, o que os condicionou a revelar uma conjuntura cultural. / This dissertation focuses on the analysis, through a critical bias, of the 27th São Paulo Art Biennial curatorial proposal, entitled \"Como viver junto\" [How to live together]. This biennial is taken as a case study within the broad context of biennials because it is considered a precursor one, establishing and institutionalizing some curatorial changes, such as the end of national representations. The 27th São Paulo Art Biennial is linked to theoretical references that are related to what Bruce Ferguson calls \"discursive biennials\", a term that refers to the fact that conferences, interdisciplinary events, workshops, educational activities, and public discussions have become increasingly important elements in these projects. Within the context of this expanded discursiveness, \"participation\", \"institutional critique\" and an educational bias have been recurrent strategies in biennial curatorships. These three elements were already present in artistic approaches in the art world and together form a discursive field composed of dialogic and relational practices that replicate, albeit with varied formats, in biennials around the world. The curatorial proposal of the exhibition was studied to understand the discourses involved in the thinking of the curators and submitted to a certain historical moment, which conditioned them to reveal a cultural context.

Esta dissertação tem como foco analisar, através de um viés crítico, o diálogo entre curadoria e arquitetura presenciado nas exposições de Arte Contemporânea, tomando como estudo de caso a Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo, à luz de suas expografias. Dentro do amplo contexto das Bienais é estabelecido um recorte que compreende as primeiras edições da década de 1980, decorrente de um contexto sócio-cultural mais amplo, amparado por uma conjuntura econômica local e internacional. O recorte incide sobre a XVI e a XVIII Bienais, edições realizadas, respectivamente, nos anos de 1981 e 1985. Este período, correspondente ao da redemocratização do Brasil, configura-se como peculiar dentro da história deste evento e representa um ponto de inflexão, quando foram reunidas as condições para saída de uma crise institucional verificada ao final dos anos de 1970. Esta escolha está intimamente vinculada a um novo contexto sócio-cultural que configurado na pós-modernidade. Esta nova lógica é conseqüência do capitalismo avançado, no qual os eventos culturais encontram-se inseridos na ótica de mercado e sujeitos a uma indústria. Sob estas condições é estabelecido um novo palco para as ações no campo das instituições que, através dos seus espaços expositivos, exercem o papel de enquadrar historicamente e legitimar as produções artísticas, contemplando assim a complexa pluralidade da Arte Contemporânea. Nos casos estudados, o espaço será compreendido pelo pensamento dos arquitetos e curadores envolvidos, submetidos a um dado momento histórico, o que os condicionou a revelar uma conjuntura cultural através da arte que propuseram a expor. Desta forma, a partir da análise proposta, será possível compreender as exposições como lugar de encontro entre o artista, sua arte e o espectador, encontro este mediado pela figura do curador e do arquiteto. Complementarmente, também foram investigadas as transformações no campo das artes plásticas a partir da segunda metade do século XX, os quais culminaram com as formas processuais e desamaterializantes das décadas de 1960 e 1970. Estas novas formas artísticas trouxeram conseqüências para o campo das exposições, que passaram a se readequar aos novos trabalhos de arte. As Bienais da década de 1980 são, de antemão, resultantes desta readequação, incorporando a arte a um discurso por elas estabelecido. / The focus of this dissertation is to analyze, through a critical bias, the dialogue between curatorship and architecture witnessed in the contemporary art exhibitions, taking as case study the Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo, at the light of its expography. Within the wide context of these Bienais, clippings are established, which include the editions from the first half of the eighties, decurrent of a social and cultural wider context, supported by a local and an international economic conjuncture. The clipping concerns to the XVI and XVIII Bienais, editions accomplished, respectively, in 1981 and 1985. This period, corresponding to Brazils process of redemocratization, is configured as peculiar within the history of this event. Represents a point of inflection, where it was verified the meeting of exceptional conditions for exit of an institutional crisis in the end of the seventies. This choice is closely linked to a new social and cultural context configured in the post-modernity. This new logic is a consequence of the advanced capitalism, in which the cultural events are inserted in the optics of market and submitted to an industry. Under these conditions a new stage is established for the actions of the institutions that, through its exhibition spaces, assume the role to fit historically and to legitimize the artistic productions, thus contemplating the complex plurality of the contemporary art. In the studied cases, the space is understood through the architects and involved curators thought, submitted to a specific historical moment, which conditioned them to disclose a cultural conjuncture through the art that they propose to exhibit. In such way, from the analysis proposal, it will be possible to understand the exhibitions as place of meeting between the artist, its art and the spectator, mediated by the curator and the architect. Complementarily, it was also investigated the transformations in the field of arts from the second half of the twenty century, which had culminated with the dematerialized and process forms of art in the sixties and seventies. These new artistic forms brought consequences for the field of the exhibitions, which had to be readapted to the new works of art. The Bienais of the eighties are, of beforehand, resultants of these readaptations, incorporating the art to a speech established by them.

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar as exposições como um fenômeno de linguagem de arquitetura, pensando a ação de arquitetos curadores como um exercício de ressignificação do espaço onde ela será construída. Neste espaço inicial, denominado espaço base, que tem características físicas, institucionais e simbólicas será processada uma ressignificação, que parte de ideias e programas dentro de uma lógica discursiva. Esta lógica será transposta através do desenho de projeto num dispositivo de comunicação, construído através de uma narrativa espacial. Esta narrativa espacial se dá pelo encadeamento de seus setores parciais, denominados de espaços frases, com o objetivo de facilitar a comunicação do programa previsto. Estes conceitos serão aplicados a dois estudos de caso das exposições mais relevantes de duas arquitetas e curadoras realizadas no Brasil: Lina Bo Bardi e Gisela Magalhães. Como conclusão do trabalho, procurou-se estabelecer similaridades e diferenças na linguagem de arquitetura expositiva de ambas as autoras. / This work has the object to analyze the exhibitions as a phenomenon of architectural language, thinking the work of curators architects as an exercise in ressignification the space where it will be built. In this initial space, called base space, which has physical, institutional and symbolic characteristics will be processed with a ressignification, which has the starting point in the ideas and programs within a discursive logic. This logic will be implemented through the architectural project design of a communication device, constructed by a spatial narrative. This space gives the narrative thread of their partial sectors, called phrases spaces, in order to facilitate communication of the planned program. These concepts will be applied to two case studies of the most important exhibitions of two Brazilian curators architects: Lina Bo Bardi and Gisela Magalhaes. The conclusion of this work was to establish similarities and differences in the exhibition architecture language of both authors.

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar as exposições como um fenômeno de linguagem de arquitetura, pensando a ação de arquitetos curadores como um exercício de ressignificação do espaço onde ela será construída. Neste espaço inicial, denominado espaço base, que tem características físicas, institucionais e simbólicas será processada uma ressignificação, que parte de ideias e programas dentro de uma lógica discursiva. Esta lógica será transposta através do desenho de projeto num dispositivo de comunicação, construído através de uma narrativa espacial. Esta narrativa espacial se dá pelo encadeamento de seus setores parciais, denominados de espaços frases, com o objetivo de facilitar a comunicação do programa previsto. Estes conceitos serão aplicados a dois estudos de caso das exposições mais relevantes de duas arquitetas e curadoras realizadas no Brasil: Lina Bo Bardi e Gisela Magalhães. Como conclusão do trabalho, procurou-se estabelecer similaridades e diferenças na linguagem de arquitetura expositiva de ambas as autoras. / This work has the object to analyze the exhibitions as a phenomenon of architectural language, thinking the work of curators architects as an exercise in ressignification the space where it will be built. In this initial space, called base space, which has physical, institutional and symbolic characteristics will be processed with a ressignification, which has the starting point in the ideas and programs within a discursive logic. This logic will be implemented through the architectural project design of a communication device, constructed by a spatial narrative. This space gives the narrative thread of their partial sectors, called phrases spaces, in order to facilitate communication of the planned program. These concepts will be applied to two case studies of the most important exhibitions of two Brazilian curators architects: Lina Bo Bardi and Gisela Magalhaes. The conclusion of this work was to establish similarities and differences in the exhibition architecture language of both authors.

Este projeto busca analisar o Cavalete de Cristal, aparato expositivo criado no fim da década de 1950 pela arquiteta ítalo-brasileira Lina Bo Bardi para ser a peça central da composição da expografia do Museu de Arte de São Paulo, o MASP. A pesquisa evidenciará que o design dessa peça - a partir da solução espacial para a qual foi planejada e do discurso curatorial nela embutido - criou uma gramática expográfica singular que, mesmo após sua extinção em 1996, ainda reverbera de maneira potente em discussões internacionais sobre os desafios da apresentação da arte em museus na atualidade. Esta pesquisa reflete a necessidade de se voltar o olhar para a proposta de Lina Bo Bardi, evidenciando a validade de uma retomada do projeto original desse museu como forma de recuperar um espaço de vivência cultural fundamental da cidade de São Paulo - que, como poucos, nasceu de um profundo entendimento das especificidades da cultura brasileira. / This project undertakes an analysis of the Crystal Easel, exhibition apparatus created in the late 1950s by the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi as the central element in the expographic composition of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, MASP. Taking the spatial solution for which the apparatus was planned and the curatorial discourse embedded in it as starting point, the study will show that the design of this object created a singular expographic grammar that, even after its extinction in 1996, continues to reverberate forcefully in international discussions about the challenges of displaying art in museums today. This research relects the need to turn our attention to Lina Bo Bardi\'s proposal, evidencing the validity of resuming the museum\'s original proposal as a way to recover a fundamental space for cultural experience in the city of São Paulo - a museum which, like few others, was born of a deep understanding of the particularities of Brazilian culture.

A presente dissertação tem como foco a análise, através de um viés crítico, da proposta curatorial da 27ª Bienal de Arte de São Paulo, intitulada Como viver junto. Esta bienal é tomada como estudo de caso dentro do amplo contexto de bienais por ser considerada precursora, estabelecendo e institucionalizando algumas mudanças curatoriais, como o fim das representações nacionais. A 27ª Bienal de Arte de São Paulo liga-se a referências teóricas que se relacionam àquilo que Bruce Ferguson denomina de \"bienais discursivas\", termo que se refere ao fato de que conferências, eventos interdisciplinares, workshops, atividades educacionais e discussões públicas tem se tornado elementos cada vez mais importantes nesses projetos. Dentro do contexto desta discursividade expandida, a participação, a crítica institucional e um viés educacional têm sido estratégias recorrentes nas curadorias das bienais. Estes três elementos já estavam presentes em abordagens artísticas no mundo da arte e compõem juntos um campo discursivo composto de práticas dialógicas e relacionais que se replicam, ainda que com formatos variados, em bienais ao redor do mundo. A proposta curatorial da mostra foi estudada de forma a compreender os discursos envolvidos a partir do pensamento dos curadores e submetidos a um dado momento histórico, o que os condicionou a revelar uma conjuntura cultural. / This dissertation focuses on the analysis, through a critical bias, of the 27th São Paulo Art Biennial curatorial proposal, entitled \"Como viver junto\" [How to live together]. This biennial is taken as a case study within the broad context of biennials because it is considered a precursor one, establishing and institutionalizing some curatorial changes, such as the end of national representations. The 27th São Paulo Art Biennial is linked to theoretical references that are related to what Bruce Ferguson calls \"discursive biennials\", a term that refers to the fact that conferences, interdisciplinary events, workshops, educational activities, and public discussions have become increasingly important elements in these projects. Within the context of this expanded discursiveness, \"participation\", \"institutional critique\" and an educational bias have been recurrent strategies in biennial curatorships. These three elements were already present in artistic approaches in the art world and together form a discursive field composed of dialogic and relational practices that replicate, albeit with varied formats, in biennials around the world. The curatorial proposal of the exhibition was studied to understand the discourses involved in the thinking of the curators and submitted to a certain historical moment, which conditioned them to reveal a cultural context.