Art and the Greater Good: Ecology and the Leisure Economy is a research project concerned with exploring how one could alternatively address the environmental issues of our day through site-specific art. Central to this investigation has been attending to the ways historical and contemporary accounts of environment politics, site specificity, land and environmental art could resonate within a more modest artistic gesture. The resulting work Would you go on without me? reflects the possibility of this by its position in an indeterminate zone; that draws together the demotic, gardening, rainwater harvesting, play and ecology into the manifold of environmental art.

This study describes the relationship between auditorium and stage and their mutual interaction. It addresses the development of theatrical space troughout different historical periods and the concept of site specific. It contains a summary of basic terms concerning theatrical space, spectator, auditorium and site specific. It is based on works of leading experts on the topic.The main objective of this study is to analyze my own acting experience gained in Univerzity Theatre Disk and other theatrical or non theatrical spaces, map the trends and development of auditorium and stage and their subsequent effect on actor´s performance and overall perception of the audience. The relationship between an actor and his audience in each specific performance is created due to many factors such as social facilitation, form of dramatic space and unique communication proces between those who create theatre and their recipients.

Community theatre, site-specific theatre, and their plausible contribution to drama in education and children's or youth theatre are in the main focus of the thesis. It summarizes the roots and background of both of these fringe theatre paths, introduces their main objectives and representatives. A more detailed description of several community theatre groups and site-specific projects is also included. Apart from the theoretical introduction, the paper follows the individual principles and complex ideas within these two alternative theatre approaches from a practical perspective; it includes a structured project plan based on connection and mutual inspiration of community theatre, sitespecific and drama in education principles. The thesis also aims at capturing wider potential of fusion of these attitudes to theatre and the society, and suggests its contribution not only in the field of drama in education, but also within contemporary performing arts and community life in general.

Krátká, M.: My city a century ago [Diploma Thesis] Praha 2014 - Charles University, Faculty of Education, Art Education Department, 135 p. The diploma thesis focuses on cross-curricular connection of two educational areas; The Art and Culture - Art education and "Man and His World". The thesis also analyzes textbooks of the "Man and His World" educational area and determines how and to what extent it is focused on the theme of home, region, the past, identity of subject and places of public area. The empirical part consists of an educational project closely linking the curriculum of art education with curriculum of the subject "Man and His World". It focuses on primary education and it's goal is to effectively educate children about the history of the town they live in using interdisciplinary approach. The educational project is based on theoretical findings stated in the theoretical part of the diploma thesis. It is also set to the context of contemporary art but in comparison to modern art it seems to be based more traditionally. Key words: Interdisciplinarity, Art Education, school subject, educational domain, Project-Based Learning, site, memory of the site, community, Site-specific art.

VIKOVÁ, Tereza. The Uses of Public Space in Connection to Visual Art and Art Education [Dissertation]. Prague, 2019. Charles University, Faculty of Education, Art Education Department. 98 pages (Attachments on CD: 1 text, 2 image attachments) The subject matter of the master's thesis is the use of public space. Namely a way of use when the user, on the basis of self-awareness in the common space, feels and assumes responsibility for this space. The author is particularly interested in the moment of focus, which may (or may not) result in action and become a change. In this context, the so called gentle action phenomenon is being mentioned. That is, an individual's actions emanating from within the system itself, which is usually characterized by subtle action with a deeper, more far-reaching effect. The author's central ideas are applied in a thematic series consisting of a combination of a didactic and an artistic part. Together, they create a coherent whole. The author shows her own approach to the problem (in relation to fine art and art education) based on the extraction of a public space element from its everyday environment, its temporary appropriation and restitution. Particular topics reveal the aspects of private and public and outline the ways in which the user relates to his or her...

Mémoire (M.A.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1994. / Cette communication a été réalisée à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi dans le cadre du programme de maîtrise en arts plastiques de l'Université du Québec à Montréal extensionné à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. CaQCU Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

This study analyzes The Influence Machine by Tony Oursler, Delay by Santiago Mostyn and An Imagined City by Jonas Dahlberg as public site-specific temporary artworks in Sweden. In particular, the intersection of the artworks and the site is analyzed, to see how emotions can be written about in an analysis. The questions are: How can these artworks be described? How can sites be described? What is the relationship between the sites and the artworks? How can emotions that exist in the space between the artworks and the sites be written about in an analys? My methodological framework is based on multimodal analysis of Carey Jewitt and Gunter Kress research. In the model, various media such as sound, light, installation, image, text and site have given individual space, to later be compared to each other and to clarify similarities, differences and relationships between each other. The model in the survey is shaped after each selected object, a so-called method reflectivity, to adapt the purpose of the survey. The model incorporates concepts derived from previous research on emotions and affect. Rosalyn Deutsch's work uses the concepts of harmonise and disruptive (sv. assimilativ, söndrande), Annika Wik's concepts of convergence, participant culture and world-making (sv. konvergens, deltagarkultur, världskapande) and Christian Norberg-Schulz's concepts of space and character (sv. rum, karaktär). In the survey, to show the relation between work and place, I coined the concept of affective relationship (sv. affektiv relation), which is close to Sara Ahmed's description of Happy Objects. This study shows that it is possible to rewrite emotions in a model that is adapted to concepts related to emotions and affect. The study further suggests that the relation between work and site can be described with the concept of affective relation, which can be elucidated by looking at the character of work and character of space. The model can be used for further research and analysis of work and place which contributes to a broader view within the discipline of art science around analytical models to open up and write about emotions.

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This dissertation is a study of the early career of the American architect-turned-artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) that spans the years 1968 to 1972. Immersing himself in SoHo’s vibrant artistic community, of which he was both a catalyst and a nexus, Matta-Clark worked through the essential ideas and concerns that would inform his practice during this condensed but incredibly generative four-year period. The works that resulted are heterogeneous, united less by specific media than by a shared constellation of concepts. Foremost among these concepts is energy: a key trope in the cultural, theoretical, and artistic discourses of Matta-Clark’s late-1960s and early-1970s moment. In histories of this period (spurred, in part, by the attention paid to Matta-Clark’s peer, Robert Smithson), energy has often been aligned with entropy: a negative movement that leads to an ultimate stasis. In contrast, Matta-Clark marshaled energy as a creative force: a motor of the "metamorphic" processes that his works both enacted and pursued. By focusing on these four years, my study opens new perspectives on both Matta-Clark’s project and the artistic and discursive formation, Postminimalism, from which it is inextricable. In doing so, I defamiliarize art history’s current conception of Postminimalism, “requestioning” (to adopt Matta-Clark’s neologism) its central term, process, through his creative energetics.

This essay explores how artwork in the public space can be analysed, conceptualized and described by bringing attention to site. Through an analysis of artworks in the yearly art exhibition of Fittja Open 2011, the essay draws attention to site-specific art and structures of power. The principal aim is to present not only the exhibition of Fittja Open 2011 but also other artwork in the public sphere in Fittja, a suburb to Stockholm. From this point of departure other interests evolve that concerns the "image" of Fittja. The analysis, based on research in art history, architecture, ethnology and philosophy as well as qualitative interviews, also focuses on understanding the role of site and the relations between art practice, institutions and site. The result shows that there are problems with a ruptured interface between the artwork and site. The claim made throughout the thesis is that artwork in the public sphere of Fittja need to be sensitive to the conflicted issue of public space in order not to reproduce stereotypes. Despite the knowledge and insight about its local art situation, the study also points out certain insensibility on behalf of Botkyrka konsthall as regards social status and class.