Submitted by Diana Alves (ppgdancaufba.adm@gmail.com) on 2016-08-19T11:40:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Railda 2016.2 pdf.pdf: 2538381 bytes, checksum: fca561dc9cddb0cb2c7e0ba531fa4ca1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Patricia Barroso (pbarroso@ufba.br) on 2016-08-19T15:22:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Railda 2016.2 pdf.pdf: 2538381 bytes, checksum: fca561dc9cddb0cb2c7e0ba531fa4ca1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T15:22:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação Railda 2016.2 pdf.pdf: 2538381 bytes, checksum: fca561dc9cddb0cb2c7e0ba531fa4ca1 (MD5) / Esta pesquisa analisa o re-enactment (Lepecki, 2010) no filme Pinta como um fluxo de memória na dança contemporânea. O filme Pinta (2013) tem direção do artista Jorge Alencar e “Dimenti - produtora cultural e ambiente de criação artística”. O estudo aporta-se na compreensão de que a obra artística contemporânea, pode não limitar sua materialização a uma determinada linguagem, e que a quantidade crescente de re-enactments do corpo na dança contemporânea, não se restringem só ao palco enquanto espaço cênico para a dança, mas em distintas intermediações que favorecem e produzem transformações e atualizações. A escolha do tema se justifica pelo interesse de aprofundar conhecimentos sobre as relações complexas da dança contemporânea e seus possíveis e inesgotáveis processos de sentidos, no intuito de elaborar princípios, técnicas e aspectos composicionais que ativam estéticas de obras passadas para o presente. A metodologia de trabalho é de característica qualitativa, com estudo de caso, utiliza entrevista semiestruturada, questionário e os registros videográficos de espetáculos e filmes utilizados para montagem de Pinta. Para referenciar discussões sobre re-enactment, dança contemporânea, hibridismo de processos compositivos foram acessados principalmente os textos dos autores Agamben (2009), Canclini (2008), Lepecki (2010), e finalmente para falar de corpo numa aproximação dos processos evolutivos que o corpo está envolvido com a memória, trazemos Greiner e Katz (2005). Ao analisar o processo de Pinta foi possível perceber que o filme produz um fluxo contínuo de memória a partir de materiais artísticos descontínuos, em ação para novas significações. Desse modo, é possível entender o re-enactment como uma prática de revisitamentos de desejos identificados tanto no artista como na obra, ambos são atingidos pelo desejo de presença.

La présente recherche a pour but d’étudier le rôle du temps dans les expériences artistique et esthétique relatives à la performance artistique. Cette étude porte sur les œuvres et les pratiques de la performance du XXe et du début du XXIe siècles, allant des premières manifestations publiques des avant-gardes historiques jusqu’à la performance augmentée par l’intégration des nouvelles technologies de l’enregistrement, de l’information et de la communication. Partant de l’hypothèse de l’efficience du composant temporel de la performance, il s’agit tout d’abord de démontrer que la structure temporelle de la performance fait l’objet d’une élaboration artistique réfléchie et que le temps peut être considérée comme « matériau » ou « milieu » de l’œuvre-performance. Les analyses de la dimension temporelle des œuvres particulières révèlent également son pouvoir d’agir sur le vécu de tous les protagonistes réunis au sein de la performance-événement et sa capacité de les impliquer à différents degrés dans le processus de la concrétisation de l’œuvre-performance. Ces différentes fonctions du temps, son « activité » et son mode opératoire sont analysés au cours de cette recherche en tant qu’ « agentivité du temps dans la performance ». À l’issue de ces investigations, le temps apparaît comme l’un des facteurs ontogénétiques de l’œuvre-performance fondant sa spécificité, et comme l’une de ses qualités intrinsèques susceptible de déterminer les conduites artistique et esthétique de l’artiste et du spectateur, au point de les rendre interchangeables. / The objective of the present research is to investigate the role of time in artistic and aesthetic experiences pertaining to performance art. This paper focuses on the performance works and practices of the 20th and early 21st centuries, ranging from the first public performances of historical avant-garde movements to the performance augmented through the use of the latest recording, information processing and communication technologies. Starting with the hypothesis of the efficiency of a performance’s temporal component, we first demonstrate that the temporal structure of a performance is the matter of well-thought-out artistic design, and that time can be regarded as the medium, or “milieu” of a performance work. Moreover, analyses of the temporal dimension of individual performance works reveal how time can affect the real-life experience of all the protagonists taking part in the performance-event, involving them, to varying degrees, in the process through which the performance comes into being as a work of art. These multiple functions of time, its “activity” and modus operandi are discussed throughout this study as “agency of time in performance”. The research shows that time turns out to be one of the ontogenetic, specificity-conferring factors of a performance work, and also one of its intrinsic qualities which is likely to determine the artist’s and spectator’s artistic and aesthetic attitudes to such an extent that they become interchangeable.

This thesis is concerned with extending the role that live performance might play in our understanding of the work of the interrelated avant-garde performance communities that emerged in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s. This is a practice-led project that uses my own performance work as the site of its enquiry. In the last decade performance itself has begun to play a significant role in our understanding of and relationship to past performances, in the main through the increasing pervasion of re-enactment as an acknowledged historiographical trope. However, as a consequence of its association with re-enactment, the nature of the historiographical role afforded to performance is still primarily determined by its proximity to the archive and institutionalised modes of performance history. Challenging the primacy of the re-enactment as a means of embodied engagement with past performance, this research project explores how manipulation of my own performance practice might generate new forms of historical knowledge. In particular my focus is on using this practice to develop a new understanding of how the work of this earlier period altered y the experience of the urban landscape for those participating in the work, audience and performers alike. Structured around a rigorous analysis of three specific works from across this earlier period, I conceived a series of spatial ‘blueprints’ that were applied to my practice to create three new performance pieces. Using my own research and practice to renegotiate the relationship between live performance and the archive, I demonstrate the possibility for a new historiographical approach to past performance. This approach emphasises the role of the participants in the performance as generators of an alternative form of historical understanding embedded in ways of operating in the city.

This study elevates the importance of experience, the senses and tacit knowledge in relation to archaeology with a focus on music. With this I take up a thread drawing on theoretical aspects of Polanyi’s ‘Tacit Dimension’ and ‘Ingold’s Lines’.  I review paradigms in experimental archaeology and music archaeology, and the subject of reconstruction in both.  My case study is of four individuals, whose reconstruction models are connected to artefacts perceived as flutes in the archaeological record and/or notions of prehistoric flutes.  Combining the way in which we learn by understanding others’ experiences through gesture and experience as data, my work examines these ideas in relation to wanting to find out about these flute-making people, and how their work is related to the canon of archaeology to which one might expect that it belongs, and if we can call this a tradition.  What I found was that the praxis is complex and far reaching and stretches into various ontologies through philosophy, religion, emotionalism, intellectualism, symbolism, music, tradition, imagination, experience, sensation and identity, where interrelations of the past, present and future are very evident.  I finally consider archaeology as an art which reveals parallels between archaeology itself and music.  Paradigms in archaeologies in 2013 do not effectively support this praxis of flute making despite contextual experimentation showing welcoming promise for future change.

This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone.

This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone.

This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

This research examines the issues and visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the exploration and analysis of how literature functions as a device to represent autobiographical experience within my media arts practice. The study considered the relevance and usage of the literary source in relation to specific adaptation procedures, in terms of what complexities were encountered and how these were understood. Whilst orthodox film adaptation provided a theoretical framework for initial experimentation, it is argued that my practice is positioned outside this domain, employing alternative methods of visual translation within a fine art context. Having investigated the purpose of my literary interpretations, I conclude that I respond subjectively to the source materials, forming autobiographical associations with particular lines, images, characters, themes or concepts within the text. It was discovered that this fragmentary method of extraction into isolated elements, corresponded with ambiguous visual representation of the self. Placed within the critical context of relevant female practitioners, I was able to detect a number of recurrent, elusive strategies within my own practice that signified a shifting subjectivity. However, it was the identification with Eliot’s subversion of his impersonality theory in later life, which enabled the realisation that literature is used in my work as a means of projection for visualising past trauma and operates as a form of displacement for a confessional practice. The thesis that emerges from my research is that by allowing oneself to respond emotionally and selectively to an existing text through transformative processes of re-enactment, literary adaptation can act as catharsis for the recollection and re-imagining of previously repressed memories.

This thesis concerns the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses that that myth is put to in a number of periods and differing régimes. Its case study is the popular myth of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as a man of extraordinary sexual prowess and the ruler over a magnificent, but frivolous, court in Dresden. It examines the origins of this myth in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and its development up to the twenty-first century in German history writing, fiction, art, and media. The image August created for himself in the art, literature, and festivities of his court as an ideal ruler of extremely broad cultural and intellectual interests and high political ambitions and abilities linked him closely with eighteenth-century notions of galanterie. This narrowed the scope of his image later, especially as nineteenth-century historians selected fictional sources and interpreted them as historical sources to present August as an immoral political failure. Although nineteenth-century popular writers exhibited a more varied response to August’s historical role, the negative historiography continued to resonate in later history writing. Ironically, the myth of August the Strong represented an opportunity in the GDR in creating and fostering a sense of identity, first as a socialist state with historical and cultural links to the east, and then by examining Prusso-Saxon history as a uniquely (East) German issue. Finally, the thesis examines the practice of historical re-enactment as it is currently employed in a number of variations on German TV and in literature, and its impact on historical knowledge. The thesis concludes that, while narrative forms are necessary to history and fiction, and fiction is a necessary part of presenting history, inconsistent combinations of the two can undermine the projects of both.

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