Artist Statement My work is about the military. I represent my views of the military from my perspective as a military wife, sister, and daughter. The themes are about separation, endurance, and the fragility that lies beneath the people who serve, and the people that support them. It’s about pain, violence, anxiety, and fear, as well as pride and honor. I want my work to enhance the view of the military but also depict its hardships.

Subject of my diploma work is contemporary politic and engage art within the Czech context. The course of study is concentrated on the change of political art since 1918 to this day. Central part and the root of the trouble is the term political art and its transformation during the last ten years, it means since 1998 to 2008. The work is divided into eight chapters, of which meant to describe the con-temporary situation and the position of political art in the Czech context and answer on the question, if the political art are works, which are directly connected with politi-cal themes and try to reveal, why authors refuse the inclusion into this category.

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In this essay I will describe my working method as an artist with a political perspective, talking about what political art can be and how it can have an effect. I also write about the development of my work, from the interest in the independent nature person to the contrasting role as a citizen. I contextualize my artistic method by raising some questions that I find interesting when dealing with the public in relation to my method; I am recording sound in the city. / Erla Silfá Þorgrímsdóttir

This paper presents a literature review on Chicana artists throughout history. It is an effort to situate Chicana artists as political visionaries, capable of conveying new visions for the future in their strategic disruption of the distribution of the sensible. Chicana art has been widely studied in the past two decades as a body of work that is both based in cultural formation, spirituality and a feminist critique of the Chicano Movement from 1968-1975. In this review of the literature, I will explore Chicana art in its role as political inspiration and a mapping of resistance to white elite power structures. Therefore, my focus in this work will be to analyze resistance and visual art, as well as the relationship between Chicanas and visual art. In this sample, I will canvas some of the work written on the historical processes that shaped Chicana/o identity, the Chicano/a movement and the early Chicana critique of that movement. This will simultaneously incorporate references to the artistic expression of the movement that has continued to shape cultural and political production in the Mexican American and affiliated academic communities for the last forty years. / text

This paper is a discussion of certain philosophical issues that have informed the progression of my work to date.

Recounts the author’s trajectory in the Masters of Fine Arts program. Describes the nature of his early practice in interactive sound art and its later development into sculptural, performative and social forms. Key theoretical influences in this development are identified and discussed in detail. In particular the writings of the philosopher Jacques Rancière and cricic Claire Bishop are discussed, as well as the work of artists William Pope.L, Joar Nango and Thomas Hirschhorn.

Esta pesquisa procura abordar as práticas artísticas no espaço público brasileiro, no campo das artes visuais, na intenção de se compreender como elas se relacionam com as cidades e seus imaginários urbanos, além de entender os desdobramentos dessas obras no campo simbólico no qual elas estão inseridas. Para tanto, a pesquisa concentra-se em uma compilação de ações artísticas realizadas no espaço público brasileiro desde os anos 2000, uma análise teórica sobre tais práticas e uma reflexão sobre minha própria produção artística. Como metodologia para examinar tais questões foram abordados temas como a relação entre o público e o privado, a arte ativista, a imagem e a palavra na cidade, a performatividade urbana e o tempo e a temporalidade na cidade. A pesquisa traz também diálogos com pesquisadores do campo da arte, da geografia e do urbanismo. A proposta é oferecer referências para novos processos de pesquisa, ampliando a compreensão sobre o papel da arte no imaginário da cidade e na formação da sensibilidade urbana. / This research deals with visual artistic practices in the Brazilian public space to understand how art relates to cities and the urban imaginary. For this, the research focuses on a compilation of artistic actions carried out in the Brazilian public space since the year 2000, a theoretical analysis on these practices and a reflection on my own artistic production. The research also brings dialogues with researchers from art, geography and urbanism. The proposal is to offer references to new research processes, broadening the understanding of the role of art in the city\'s imaginary and the formation of urban sensibility.

Assentada numa abordagem pós-estruturalista de Estudos Culturais, de inspiração foucaultiana, esta dissertação buscou tensionar a intersecção entre o campo das ciências e o das artes. Para tanto, tomou os discursos contemporâneos sobre o corpo, especialmente sobre a doação de órgãos e tecidos, como seu mote organizador. A ação artística Doações do Corpo, constituída por objetos artísticos para serem doados durante esta pesquisa, mimetizou os processos seletivos adotados pelo sistema de transplantes, na escolha dos receptores para os órgãos, e pelo sistema das artes, na escolha dos artistas para as exposições. Isso fez com que o público ocupasse o lugar de paciente que necessita de um transplante de órgão e, ao mesmo tempo, o lugar de artista, que busca espaço para expor suas obras no circuito das artes. A análise foi realizada sobre os textos dos participantes, produzidos com o intuito de receberem o órgão/obra. A partir dos textos produzidos desde a perspectiva dos receptores para os órgãos/obras, poder-se-ia apontar, além dos aspectos simbólicos sobre a temática dos transplantes que circulam em nossa cultura, a recorrência de discursos sobre a optimização do corpo, visando maximizar suas capacidades produtivas. Além disso, a necessidade da transformação dos indivíduos em empreendedores de si, através do investimento constante sobre o corpo e a saúde, o aperfeiçoamento associado à retórica do risco, considerando que os indivíduos são livres para escolherem as ações a serem empreendidas durante esses processos, ao mesmo tempo em que são os responsáveis por suas consequências. / This work is based in a post-structuralist approach in Cultural Studies, inspired by Michel Foucault. It aimed to provoke a tension at the intersection between the field of sciences and of the arts. For that, the contemporary discourses on the body, especially those about the organs and tissues donation, were its main subject. The artistic action entitled Donation of the Body was constituted of artworks to be donated during this research. The action followed the similar processes adopted by the system of transplants, to choose recipients for the organs, and by the system of arts, to choose the artists for exhibitions. This process made the public to take place of a patient who needs an organ transplant and at the same time, the place of artist, seeking space to exhibit his (her) works in the circuit of art. The analysis was done on the texts of the participants, produced in order to receive the organ/artwork. Among these texts – produced from the perspective of the recipients for the organs/artworks –, one could point out the recurrence of the discourses regarding the symbolic aspects of the transplants, that circulate in our culture, as well of discourses about the optimization of the body in order to maximize its productive capacities. In addition, the need of transforming individuals into entrepreneurs of themselves, through the constant investment on the body and the health, the improvement associated to the rhetoric of risk, taking into account that the individuals are free to choose the actions to be developed during these processes, at the same time that they are the responsible for their consequences.

The master thesis Contemporary political art as a reflection of the time seeks to define the relationship of art and politics. The base is built around the statement of Boris Groys where he claims that every art is in a way political, as it accrues from a specific and given socio-political situation. The thesis then looks at the given art through the lens of a subcategory -- contemporary activist art. In terms of social history of art, the artistic expressions are seen as the counterpart to the forms of politicized art of futurism, German national socialism and Soviet socialist realism. The goal of the thesis was to understand the work of contemporary Czech and Slovak visual artists as a conscience of the time. First of all so in the form of civic responsibility for events in their own country that they voluntarily accepted. That is reflected in the visualized topics that provoke and shock the public. The thesis concludes by stating that contemporary political art is nonconformist, therefore determining the problems in today's society.