Berlin, Humboldt-Universiẗat, Diss., 2003.

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Caminhar na cidade Experiência e representação nos caminhares de Richard Long e Francis Alÿs; Depoimentos de uma pesquisa poética é constituído de reflexões e depoimentos sobre a poética do caminhar na cidade hoje. Parte-se de um entendimento do caminhar como uma prática artística, tal como se desenvolveu no decorrer do século XX no campo das artes visuais. Procura-se compreender as práticas de artistas-caminhantes contemporâneos, suas formas de inscrição e intervenção no espaço urbano, com foco nas dimensões da experiência e da representação. Apresentam-se: 1) o campo poético do artista inglês Richard Long, artista-caminhante em paisagens naturais remotas, abordando especialmente a relação entre a obra e o lugar; 2) o campo poético do artista belga Francis Alÿs, artista-caminhante urbano, com um aprofundamento sobre a especificidade da inscrição artística no contexto urbano e o processo de criação das situações metafóricas e proliferação das fábulas no imaginário urbano. 3) depoimentos da pesquisa poética da própria autora, suas experiências na cidade como artista-caminhante. A partir destas três práticas artísticas, concluem¬-se quais os procedimentos utilizados por artistas-caminhantes. / Walking in the City Experience and representation on Richard Long and Francis Alÿs walking-works; a poetic research testimony consists on reflections and testimonies on city walking poetics today. Arising from an understanding of walking as an artistic practice, as it was developed in the course of the 20th century in the field of visual arts. There is a search for an understanding of contemporary artists-walkers practices, their forms of inscription and intervention on the urban spaces, deepening the experience and representation aspects. Presenting: 1) the poetic field of the English artist Richard Long, walker in remote natural landscapes, tackling the relation between work and place; 2) the poetic field of the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs, urban walker, with a focus on the artistic inscription on the urban space specificity, and the creative process of metaphoric situation and the proliferation of fables in the urban imaginary; 3) the authors own poetic research testimonies, her city experiences as an artist-walker. Based on these three artistic practices, the artistic procedures taken by the contemporary artists walkers shall be concluded.

Caminhar na cidade Experiência e representação nos caminhares de Richard Long e Francis Alÿs; Depoimentos de uma pesquisa poética é constituído de reflexões e depoimentos sobre a poética do caminhar na cidade hoje. Parte-se de um entendimento do caminhar como uma prática artística, tal como se desenvolveu no decorrer do século XX no campo das artes visuais. Procura-se compreender as práticas de artistas-caminhantes contemporâneos, suas formas de inscrição e intervenção no espaço urbano, com foco nas dimensões da experiência e da representação. Apresentam-se: 1) o campo poético do artista inglês Richard Long, artista-caminhante em paisagens naturais remotas, abordando especialmente a relação entre a obra e o lugar; 2) o campo poético do artista belga Francis Alÿs, artista-caminhante urbano, com um aprofundamento sobre a especificidade da inscrição artística no contexto urbano e o processo de criação das situações metafóricas e proliferação das fábulas no imaginário urbano. 3) depoimentos da pesquisa poética da própria autora, suas experiências na cidade como artista-caminhante. A partir destas três práticas artísticas, concluem¬-se quais os procedimentos utilizados por artistas-caminhantes. / Walking in the City Experience and representation on Richard Long and Francis Alÿs walking-works; a poetic research testimony consists on reflections and testimonies on city walking poetics today. Arising from an understanding of walking as an artistic practice, as it was developed in the course of the 20th century in the field of visual arts. There is a search for an understanding of contemporary artists-walkers practices, their forms of inscription and intervention on the urban spaces, deepening the experience and representation aspects. Presenting: 1) the poetic field of the English artist Richard Long, walker in remote natural landscapes, tackling the relation between work and place; 2) the poetic field of the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs, urban walker, with a focus on the artistic inscription on the urban space specificity, and the creative process of metaphoric situation and the proliferation of fables in the urban imaginary; 3) the authors own poetic research testimonies, her city experiences as an artist-walker. Based on these three artistic practices, the artistic procedures taken by the contemporary artists walkers shall be concluded.

The years around 1970 saw the emergence of an artistic fascination with maps and mapping. In the present thesis this fascination is conceptualised as a mapping impulse, acknowledging how the discourses of art and mapping, respectively, intertwine and merge. The aim of the study is to analyse this mapping impulse and to identify recurring themes and concepts in artworks and texts on art where maps and mapping processes are used as a visual expression and method.  In order to demonstrate how the scope of the thesis is shaped by later interpretations of art from around 1970, three exhibition publications from three decades are examined to illustrate how boundaries between the discourses of art and of mapping are renegotiated from the late 1960s up until the 2010s. The representing line of the map is analysed via the concepts of diagrams, maps, and models, such as the re-appearance of Claude Shannon’s and Warren Weaver’s Communication Model in the Swedish late 1960s, Öyvind Fahlström’s World Map (1972), and Sten Eklund’s paintings on glass from 1968 where he transfers ideas from Wittgenstein’s Tractatus into visual representations. The procedural aspects of encounters between the discourses of art and of mapping from around 1970 are analysed in Hans Haacke’s Gallery-Goers’ Birthplace and Residence Profile Pt. 1 and Sten Eklund’s Kullahusets hemlighet (The Secret of Kullahuset). The latter work is interpreted in the light of the role of the mapping, surveying individual, and in a figurative sense, the individual in the system. Here, the concept of alienation is used, as the work delineates the mapping subject who itself is being subject to mapping.  In this thesis the mapping impulse is identified as a way to deal with territory and truth in Western art around 1970. The map as a sign system and a practice is representative of a recent stage where art in various ways deal with a world undergoing rapid change. The mapping impulse circa 1970 can be identified as a visual regime of cartographic reason, characterized by legibility, clarity and lucidity. This also suggests alternative interpretations of the impact of the linguistic turn in the art of the 1960s and early 1970s, revealing a more ambiguous relationship between text and image.