Instructions for a Walk Off Line engages in a reparative reading of Fluxus and Conceptual artworks, with a focus on the practice of stanley brouwn, to outline a set of strategies for contemporary artists to approach the role of bureaucracy in mediating their relationship with art institutions. This research starts from the observation that modern and contemporary art museums are increasingly invested in inviting underrepresented artists into their spaces without engaging in the necessary structural changes to meet their conditions for being included. Bureaucracy is one of those structural elements that maintains and perpetuates certain norms and excludes those who do not have proximity to them. In the approach to Fluxus and Conceptual works, this thesis relies on intermedia and queer theory to analyse how bureaucratic form, language, and function are appropriated and fused with artistic media to expose normative systems, destabilise them, and deviate from them. stanley brouwn’s Aantal stappen of meters in de richting van diverse steden in the collection of Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven is taken as an exemplary case, as brouwn is known to have a specific set of conditions for the display and dissemination of his work. Situating brouwn’s practice in relation to the strategies of appropriation, exposure, destabilisation and deviation, this research proposes his work and conditions as a relational practice of walking off line. The notion of the line, a recurring formal aspect in brouwn’s work, represents the norm that brouwn and his contemporaries deviate from. The museum staff and the audience are invited into this process through different instructions and conditions for the installation of, and engagement with the work. This thesis demonstrates that these instructions are not static but allow for interpretations and invite playfulness. The strategies in this research are offered in the same way; they are not presented as a single way of walking off line but invite a range of possibilities based on the needs and conditions relevant to the context of working with bureaucracy in the arts today.

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This essay aims to explain the attraction toward the main character Stavrogin that the other characters experience in Dostoevsky's The Possessed, his great novel from 1871. I will mainly employ the terms “orientation” and “disorientation” in my analysis of Stavrogin's power of attraction. The theory used for this reading is principally inspired by Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology – Orientation, Objects, Others (2006), and the meaning I attach to the terms “orientation” and “disorientation” is derived from Ahmed's use of them. Ahmed's queer phenomenology helps us to reflect upon how Stavrogin functions as a point of orientation in the novel. This makes him a demonic influence on the other characters, in the sense that he disorientates them. The Possessed asks us what happens when we “lose our way”, and confusion as well as disorientation is a general theme of the novel. This topic has been raised before, but few have connected the demonic disorientation with the underlying unconventional desires, such as Peter Verchovensky's desire for Stavrogin. In this essay I attempt to show how Stavrogin can be thought of as a “new” orientation for the other characters, and how their following him causes them to follow lines that lead to destruction.

Pilot spatial disorientation (SD) is a significant cause of incidents and fatal accidents in aviation. The pilot is susceptible to SD especially in low visibility when the visual system is deprived of information from outside the cockpit. This thesis presents the notion of visual flow displays as enhancement of symbology on flight displays primarily in low visibility for improved support of the pilot’s spatial orientation (SO) and control actions. In Studies I and II, synthetic visual flow of forward ego-motion was presented on displays and postural responses were used as measures of display effectiveness in determining SO. The visual flow significantly affected SO, and although the increased stimulation of the visual periphery from a width of 45° to about 105° increased the effects there was no further effect at a width of about 150° (Studies I and II). Studies I and II also showed that omitting 20°- or 30°-wide central fields of view from the visual flow either reduced or not reduced the effects. Further, although inconclusive, Study II may indicate that horizon symbology in central visual field may enhance the effects of peripheral visual flow. The appropriate integration of peripheral visual flow with the head-up display symbology of the Gripen aircraft was presented. Acceleration in a human centrifuge was used in Study III to investigate the effects of synthetic visual flow on the primarily vestibular-dependent somatogravic illusion of pitch-up. Two experiments revealed a reduced illusion with the visual flow. The results of Experiment 2 showed the visual flow scene not only reduced the illusion compared with a darkness condition but also compared with the visual scene without visual flow. Thus, similar to the main findings of Studies I and II, synthetic visual flow can significantly affect SO and supports the visually dependent SO system in an essential manner.

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This study aimed to characterize in what conditions (environmental and personal ones) occurred the episodes of urban disorientation among elderly people in the city of São Carlos, to identify possible factors which are associated to this disorientation and to propose interventions preventing or minimizing theirs impacts. People who took part in this study were 80 elders from both genders, with ages between 60 and 98 year old (mean of 72 ± 10 years) living in the city of São Carlos SP. This sample was divided into three groups: GROUP OF L CASES ( L from localização in Portuguese, the same as localization in English), constituted by 15 elders who presented difficulties in momentary localization; GROUP OF P CASES ( P from perder-se in Portuguese, the same as to lose oneself in English), constituted by 30 elders who getting lost and CONTROL GROUP, constituted by 35 elders who did not present urban disorientation . The data were obtained through the application of questionnaires and of the Mini-Mental State Examination . The hypothesis of the association between the investigated variables and the urban disorientation was analyzed through the use of the Pearson s chisquare test, (significance level a=0.05) and of the method of the Correspondence Analysis . The characteristics of the places where the episodes of urban disorientation occurred were analyzed through the use of descriptive statistical techniques. The percentages of elders who obtained scores below the threshold in the examination of the Mini-Mental State Examination were: 39% in the GROUP OF L CASES ; 36% in the GROUP OF P CASES and 29% in the CONTROL GROUP. The results of the Pearson s chi-square test indicated as variables associated to the urban disorientation the following items: psychiatric disease, in the sample of institutionalized elders, and sleeping problem and diabetes in the sample of non-institutionalized elders. In the Correspondence Analysis , the variables associated to the urban disorientation were: to live in São Carlos for less than 20 years; health state self-referred as poor or very poor; the use of psychoactive medicines and to suffer from depression, besides the sleeping problems and the diabetes, which were also identified in the Pearson s chi-square test. In relation to the environmental characteristics of the places where the episodes of urban disorientation occurred, 20% of the elderly people involved in the research reported its occurrence in places with signposting problems (the lack of signposts, inappropriate public lighting and changes of the urban landscape); 40% informed the non-existence of environmental problems and justified their disorientation by explaining their difficulties in remembering the way they walked around, their momentary mental confusion, their serious loss of memory, their sudden space disorientation, their changes of mood and, finally, their recent coming to the city of São Carlos, and 40% did not remember the characteristics of the place. From the results, proposals of interventions in the health system and in its public policies were elaborated, with the intention of preventing and/or of minimizing the impacts of the urban disorientation . / A população mundial de idosos tem aumentado gradativamente e, como conseqüência, problemas associados ao processo de envelhecimento assumem maior relevância. No Brasil, o envelhecimento populacional está ocorrendo de forma abrupta, dificultando a adequação dos sistemas sociais e de saúde às novas demandas. Um dos problemas atualmente enfrentados nos centros urbanos é o fato de idosos se perderem desorientação urbana. Este estudo objetivou caracterizar em que condições (ambientais e pessoais) ocorreram episódios de desorientação urbana em idosos no Município de São Carlos, identificar possíveis fatores associados à desorientação e propor intervenções que permitam prevenir sua ocorrência ou minimizar seus impactos. Inicialmente foi realizado um estudo preliminar com 318 idosos com o objetivo de identificar aqueles que já apresentaram desorientação urbana, nas fontes de informação: Instituições que realizam o encaminhamento de indivíduos perdidos; Unidades do Sistema Único de Saúde; Instituições de Longa Permanência e os principais grupos de Terceira Idade. Desses idosos, foram selecionados para o estudo 80 indivíduos de ambos os sexos, com idades entre 60 e 98 anos (média 72,08 ± 10 anos). A amostra foi dividida em três grupos: GRUPO DE CASOS L, constituído por 15 idosos que apresentaram dificuldade de localização momentânea; GRUPO DE CASOS P, constituído por 30 idosos que se perderam e GRUPO CONTROLE constituído por 35 idosos que não apresentaram desorientação. Os dados foram obtidos por meio de aplicação de questionários e do Mini-Exame do Estado Mental (MEEM). A hipótese de associação entre as variáveis investigadas e a desorientação urbana foi analisada pelo teste estatístico Qui-quadrado de Pearson (χ²), com nível de significância α= 0,05, e pelo método Análise de Correspondência. As características dos locais onde ocorreram os episódios de desorientação urbana foram analisadas por técnicas estatísticas descritivas. As porcentagens de idosos que obtiveram pontuação abaixo do corte no MEEM foram: 39% no grupo L, 36% no grupo P e 29% no grupo controle. Os resultados do Teste χ² indicaram como variáveis associadas à desorientação urbana: doença psiquiátrica, na amostra de idosos institucionalizados e problema de sono e diabetes na amostra de idosos não-institucionalizados. Na Análise de Correspondência as variáveis associadas à desorientação urbana foram: residir em São Carlos há menos de 20 anos, estado de saúde auto-referido como ruim ou péssimo, utilização de medicamentos psicoativos e ter depressão, além dos problemas de sono e diabetes, também identificados no Teste χ². Com relação às características ambientais onde ocorreram os episódios de desorientação, 20% dos sujeitos relataram sua ocorrência em locais com problema de sinalização (ausência de placas, iluminação inadequada e mudanças da paisagem urbana); 40% informaram não existir problemas no ambiente e justificaram a desorientação por dificuldade de lembrar o caminho que percorreu, confusão mental momentânea, perda grave de memória, desorientação espacial repentina, alteração de humor e mudança recente para o Município; e 40% não se lembravam das características do local. A partir dos resultados foram elaboradas propostas de intervenção referentes à prevenção da ocorrência de desorientação urbana, à formação e treinamento de profissionais e propostas para minimizar o impacto dos eventos de desorientação.

Ce travail doctoral en arts plastiques interroge les enjeux du non perçu de nos constructions spatiales, temporelles ou physiques et propose d’observer ce qui nous échappe, mais que nous vivons, ce qui nous touche ou nous traverse sans que nous le sentions. Il s’agit d’une étude du pouvoir discret de la contrepartie et de la manière dont certains gestes, certaines pratiques plastiques, poétiques, scientifiques la mettent en jeu. Une première séquence est consacrée aux métaphores du fil et du funambule, ils deviennent les modèles à partir desquels il est possible de penser les potentialités de l’inaperçu et d’envisager une forme de désorientation active. D’une part, la structure faite de fils de chaîne et de fils de trame du tissu permet de penser la valeur opératoire du vide. Cela, parce que c’est l’espace entre les fils de chaîne et les fils de trame qui induit la qualité de souplesse, de résistance ou d’opacité du tissu. C’est alors que l’interstice, l’intervalle ou l’entre-deux devient décisif. D’autre part, le funambule est celui qui agit sur le fil. Il adopte une posture risquée, éprise de déséquilibres, de doutes, d’hésitations, d’une attention qui doit être renouvelée à chaque pas au gré de ses sensations physiques et des conditions atmosphériques. Alors, les métaphores du fil et du funambule créent la scène imaginaire de nos propres désorientations face à ce qui se dérobe, face à ce qui, aux marges de nos espaces, de nos rythmes, de notre écoute ou de notre vision, ne se laisse pas facilement saisir. Une deuxième séquence s’efforce de pointer ce qui, dans notre environnement, fait de nous des funambules, ce qui nous déséquilibre ou nous désoriente. Quelles sont nos conditions physiques, physiologiques, psychologiques ou sociales du déséquilibre ? Qu’est-ce qui se loge au seuil de nos espaces, à la lisière de notre vision, au fond de notre écoute ? Comment certains gestes, certaines pratiques ouvrent notre regard à l’inaperçu de notre environnement et en révèlent les potentialités ? / This dissertation in Fine Arts questioned about the undetected of our creations, in space, in time or physically and is an invitation to observe what is easily missed, that touches and goes through us, without our noticing. It is a study on subtle power and how it influences certain movements, plastic, poetic and scientific practices. The first part will focus on metaphors surrounding the thread and the acrobat, they become the model to reflect upon the potential of the unnoticeable and to consider an active form of disorientation. On the one hand, structure made of thread and wefts of fabric allow us to think the value of empty spaces since it is these gaps that are responsible for the suppleness, the resistance or the opacity of the fabric. Then the interstice, the interval or the in-between become essential. On the other hand, the tightrope walker is the one acting on the rope. He is in a risky position, struggling with disequilibrium, doubts, hesitations and he needs to renew his attention after each step according to his physical feelings and atmospheric conditions. The metaphors of the tightrope walker creates an imaginary scenario of our own disorientations in front of what evades us, at the edge of our space, rhythm, vision or listening, which is not easily perceptible. The second part points out elements in our environment which make us become tightrope walkers by inducing unsteadiness and disorientation. What are the physical, physiological, psychological or social conditions for disequilibrium ? What can be accommodated at the limit of our space, at the edge of our vision and in the depth of our hearing ? How certain actions broaden our vision towards the unnoticeable of our environment and to reveal its potential ?

In this dissertation the healing acts of Jesus in John are investigated against the ancient Mediterranean socio-religious and cultural background in which it realized. All sickness and healing realities realize within a particular socio-cultural context and may differ significantly within different cultures. For example, less than one hundred years ago depression was not diagnosed as an illness and there existed no therapeutic processes for the disease. When one investigates ancient healing narratives which tell of sickness realities almost 2000 years ago, before the dawn of the Western Bio-Medical research system and modernism, one must remember that the sickness realities of that time will differ to a great extent from the modern project‘s sickness realities and its constructs. The researcher must in other words be very sensitive about anachronistic misinterpretations and ethnocentrism - that is, a reductionistic view of sickness (and other) realities through your own worldview. For this reason the term sickness is used as an umbrella term, and a distinction is made between the curing of a disease and the healing of an illness. The word group curing and disease are words that are used in the Western Bio-Medical world, and are also deeply imbedded within the modernistic philosophical worldview. On the other hand the word group healing of an illness is more inclusive in the sense that it is sensitive to sickness realities as experienced and constructed in ancient Mediterranean societies. In the first century ancient Mediterranean temple oriented Judaism for example, a particular disease (like skin disease), unlike today, also had negative socio-religious implications for the afflicted person which sometimes resulted in marginalization and status deconstruction. Turning to John‘s healing narratives it should also be taken into account that his healing acts are presented as σημετα that is, signs which illustrate that Jesus is the Son of God, the source of life (cf. John 20:30-31; 10:32; 6:14). The question to be answered is, in what way does John present the healing narratives in order to illustrate that Jesus is the true source of Life (cf. John 1:4). The thesis is thus developed that John presents sickness realities that closely represent ¯"death”, crisis, disorientation, brokenness and loss of life possibilities within the ancient Mediterranean symbolic universe. John then presents Jesus as the divine transformation Agent, who restores and recreates life possibilities after a transformational interaction with the sick person. It is also argued that John‘s understanding of healing is not to be limited to the traditional Western Biomedical paradigm revolving around the curing of disease but also includes a view of Jesus‘ role as healer and restorer of spiritual brokenness, a tradition which originated in the Old Testament. The narrative regarding the discussion between Jesus and the Samaritan woman is used as an example of a situation in which Jesus offers someone the gift of life and spiritual restoration or healing which resulted in the representation of reality. Lastly it will be argued why the resurrection could be understood as a Johannine σημετον and also be interpreted as the culminating healing act in John‘s Gospel, illustrating that Jesus is the true source of life in abundance (cf. John 1:4; 10:10). / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / New Testament Studies / PhD / Unrestricted

Les villes projetées dans la littérature sont des espaces idéaux pour comprendre les tensions de notre temps. En reflétant les contradictions sociales produites par l'économie, l'accès inégal au pouvoir, la coexistence entre différents groupes culturels, etc., elles nous permettent de réfléchir aux caractéristiques complexes d'un monde en mutation permanente. L’objectif principal de cette thèse est d’analyser les villes littéraires de Mario Levrero comme des dispositifs narratifs qui permettent de constater la fin de certains projets politiques, sociaux et culturels du XXe siècle face à l’émergence d’un modèle qui tend vers la mondialisation. Ce travail est basé sur une hypothèse théorique qui peut être résumée comme suit : plus la complexité de notre système politique et économique est grande, plus il est difficile d'imaginer et de représenter la réalité dont nous faisons partie. Cela est particulièrement évident dans les représentations urbaines de Levrero, qui symbolisent le sentiment de désorientation caractéristique du sujet postmoderne avant d’échouer à cartographier tout aspect de la réalité contemporaine. Cela nous permet d'analyser la portée politique de ces représentations, puisqu'elles supposent à la fois un diagnostic sans espoir du présent et une projection ratée de l’avenir. Les villes imaginaires de Levrero fonctionnent comme des scénarios de l'effondrement d'un monde connu et de l'émergence d'un monde nouveau pour lequel les personnages ne disposent d'aucun outil d'interprétation. / Projected cities in literature have been proven to be ideal spaces to understand the tensions of our time. By representing the social contradictions produced by the economy, the unequal access to power or the coexistence between different cultural groups, they allow us to reflect on the complex characteristics of a world in permanent transformation. The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the literary cities of Mario Levrero as narrative devices with which to observe the coming to an end of certain political, social and cultural projects of the twentieth century in the face the emergence of a model that tends towards the dissolution of the regional in the global. This work is based on a theoretical assumption that can be summarized as follows: the greater the complexity of our political and economic system, the greater the difficulty in imagining and representing the reality we are a part of. This is particularly clear in the urban representations of Levrero, which symbolize the sense of disorientation that distinguishes the postmodern subject before the failure of every attempt to map any aspect of contemporary reality. This allows us to analyze the political significance of these representations: they entail, on the one hand, a diagnosis of hopelessness for the present and, on the other, an outlook of failure for the future. The cities of Levrero function as backgrounds for the collapse of a known world and the emergence of a brand new one with characters that lack any tools for its interpretation.

In my dissertation I focus on light and spatial situations rooted in a dialogue between an empty space and artificial light. These environments are so charged in terms of perception that their experience affects the processes in the viewer's consciousness. First, there are usually the feelings of increased instability and disorientation. These factors were first explored in depth by the Californian artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin in the mid-1960s, in response to psychological and neurological scientific experiments in the field of sensory deprivation. Turrell's and Irwin's progressive approach found a host of followers. In Europe, it was developed, in particular, by the contemporary artists Olafur Eliasson and Ann Veronica Janssens, in the Czech milieu by Pavel Korbička. Korbička's interest in the potential of space and its definition by artificial light constitutes a key material in my dissertation for the explanation of the links between light and spatial works and the processes regarding the viewer's perception. Inside light and spatial works, the limits of the viewer's body dissolve; at the same time, the natural dependence of human orientation on allocentric representation (i.e. on the relationship between the subject and the surrounding landmarks) is stimulated, to the extent that the...

Recent years have seen a plethora of research accomplished with respect to OT poetic prayers, predominantly in relation to the Psalter, with a least one ramification being a lack of engagement with the full spectrum of expressions especially within OT prosaic prayers. In addition to this, contemporary pastoral literature continues to exhibit an underdevelopment with respect to the full anthropological spectrum of expressions amidst grief especially within intercultural contexts. Observing both lacunas in scholarship, this dissertation operationalizes a Revisionist Method of Mutual Critical Correlation as its metamethod while incorporating Renewed Form Criticism, Hermeneutical Phenomenology, annd a Liberative Intercultural Praxis as it pursues a twofold objective: 1) an examination of the multivalent expressions (i.e., verbal, physical, and emotional) that leading Israelites pray-ers within the ancient context of OT prosaic prayers communicated to/before God while in the crux of disorientation, and 2) an investigation into the multivalent expressions (i.e., verbal, physical, and emotional) that leading Christian pray-ers wtihin an intercultural context (i.e., among Canadian immigrants from Guyana and Vietnam) communicated to/before God amidst the phenomenon of grief. At the heart of attending to this twofold mission is the configuration of an expressive domain of anthropological expressive modalities of disorientation communicated to/before God, along with their essence or meaning. Sensitized to such an expressive domain with its multivalent significance, contemporary pastoral caregivers would thus be better equipped to foster compassionate, liberative intercultural pastoral care for intercultural Christian communities coping with grief.