Les musées d’art exposent leurs œuvres selon les modalités de curation et l’architecture même du lieu. Ce mémoire en recherche-création interroge le rôle de médium de l’espace d’exposition en s’appuyant sur un double cadre théorique : les approches matérielles des études médiatiques et la muséologie (études muséales et curatoriales). Les nombreuses spécificités du musée rotond en font un cas particulier récurrent et pertinent pour analyser la manière dont ces courbes spécifiques de l’espace muséal agissent sur l’approche curatoriale d’une exposition et l’expérience qui en découle pour le visiteur. À travers la forme médiatique qu’est le guide d’exposition, il s’agit d’explorer la présentation sur une feuille rectangulaire d’un espace d’exposition circulaire. Trois espaces significatifs font l’objet d’une étude de cas et définissent le cadre de création : la galerie des Nymphéas au Musée de l’Orangerie (Paris, 1927), le Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1959) et la Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris, 2021). Ce mémoire en recherche-création expérimente la dimension médiatique de l’espace rotond par un processus de remédiation du guide d’exposition qui vise à retranscrire matériellement la circularité de ces lieux. Animée par l’analogie entre le circulaire et l’insulaire et investissant leurs modes de représentation, j’y conçois un outil de médiation qui accompagne le visiteur dans sa découverte spatiale du musée rotond et au-delà, le promène dans une itération archipélagique, d’un cercle muséal à l’autre. Chacun des trois musées rotonds de ce pèlerinage offre un fragment de l’expérience à collecter qui, au fil des visites, formera par assemblage l’itinéraire complet et accompli d’une médiation au sein de lieux à l’exposition circulaire. Navigation inédite dans l’archipel Rotonda pour composer son Museario rotondo. Par une approche non-linéaire, tant dans l’aspect théorique et conceptuel que méthodologique, je m’intéresse aux interstices du rotond interrogeant matérialités, possibilités et affordances du circulaire. De l’histoire du rond dans un carré. / Art museums exhibit artworks according to curation methods and the architecture of the building itself. This art-based research thesis questions the medium role of the exhibition space using a double theoretical framework: materialist approach in media studies and museum studies paired with curatorial studies. The numerous specificities of the circular museum convert it into a special case, recurrent and pertinent to analyze the way these specific curves of the museum space act on the curatorial approach of an exhibition and the related experience for the visitor. Threw the media object that the exhibition guide is shaping, the purpose here is to explore the presentation on a rectangular sheet of a circular exhibition space. Three indicative spaces form case studies and define the framework for the creation phase: the Water Lilies Gallery at Musée de L’Orangerie (Paris, 1927), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1959) and the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris, 2021). This art-based research thesis experiments with the media dimension of the rotunda space by remediating the exhibition guide in order to transliterate materially the roundness of those places. Motivated by an analogy between circularity and insularity and investing in their representation forms, I design a mediation tool that guides the visitor in his spatial discovery of the rotunda museum and beyond, walks him threw an archipelagic iteration, from a circle museum to another. Each of the three rotunda museums of this pilgrimage offers a fragment of the experience to be collected which, over the visits, will form by assembly the complete and accomplished itinerary of a mediation within places of circular exhibition. Unprecedented navigation in the Rotonda archipelago to compose the Museario rotondo. Through a non-linear approach, as much as in the theoretical aspect as conceptual and methodological ones, I am interested in the interstices of the rotunda, questioning materialities, possibilities, and affordances of the circular. About the story of a round in a square.

This project report offers an in-depth, detailed account of my creative process and work during my two-year Master in visual communication at Konstfack, Stockholm. My degree project is a celebration of plurality and visual democracy. Starting with identifying different norms pervading the graphic design discipline in the Western world today, both in terms of aesthetic values and systems of thinking, I have worked to propose and visualize alternative possible futures.  Drawing has been my main carrier through an intense journey of un-learning and re-learning resulting in an artist’s book in unique copy.  With this book, I want to problematize the dominant discourses around objectivity as a utopian ideal with a suppressive agenda, while visualizing a world I can recognize myself in. I have used decoration as a method, emotion and femininity as explorative standpoints, giving space to the metaphorical, the ambiguous and the spiritual to challenge current visual norms.  This book emerges as an affirmation of my own quest for visual belonging  as a graphic designer and a woman; a testimony of the practice of drawing as actualized power.

„Die Zeitstruktur im Gegenwartsroman am Beispiel von G. García Márquez, „Cien años de soledad“, M. Vargas Llosa, „La casa verde“ und A. Robbe-Grillet „La maison de rendez-vous“. bietet ein umfangreiches und innovatives Modell und eine Analysemethode für narratologische Prozesse oder ‚Strategie‘, und damit verbunden, insbesondere für zeitli-che Prozesse oder ‚Strategien‘ im lateinamerikanischen und französischen ‚neuen Roman‘. Im ersten Teil werden nach der Klärung der verschiedenen Perspektiven und Implikationen der Erzählhaltungen und ihrer Konsequenzen für die Zeitlichkeit, und umgekehrt dieser für die Erzählverfahren, die zeitlichen Prozesse oder ‘Strategien’ (‘Chronologie’, ‘Anachronie’ – im Zentrum von Theorie und Analyse und ‘Achronie’) als konstitutiver Bestandteil der Konstruktion der semantischen und pragmatischen Ebene und damit der textlichen Botschaft formuliert. Das in dem betreffenden Text vorgeschlagene Modell basiert zwar auf der Theorie der Zeitlichkeit von G. Genette, geht aber über diese Theorie hin-aus. Es werden drei neue Makroachsen der Zeitlichkeit entwickelt: die Zirkularität, die García Márquez in „Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit“ geschaffen hat; die ‚Simultaneität‘, die Vargas Llosa in „Das grüne Haus“ entwickelte; und die ‚Zeit-losigkeit‘, die Robbe-Grillets œuvre charakterisieren, hier als Beispiel „La maison de rendez-vous“. Diese drei Werke bilden den zweiten Teil der Untersuchung. In „Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit“ ist die ‚Zirkularität ‘ mythischer Natur, die sich auf die biblische Erschaffung der Welt, auf die Geschichte Amerikas, auf die Geschichte Kolumbiens und schließ-lich auf die Geschichte der Buendías Zippe bezieht. In „Das grüne Haus“ ermöglicht die ‚Simultaneität‘ die Illusion einer Welt, die eine „totale Realität“ erschaffen will, und zwar in actu, fast in „Echtzeit“, auf der Grundlage von ‚Per-mutationen‘ und ‚zeitlichen Überlagerungen‘. Es wird gezeigt, wie die amazonische Welt anderen Logiken folgt, als die der so genannten „zivilisierten Welt“, von der sie Opfer ist. Die Zeitlosigkeit ist das Merkmal von „La maison de rendez-vous“, die Funktion hat, eine „aventure du récit“ (oder eines „récit ‘comme’ aventure“) und nicht als ein „récit d’une aventure“ zustande zu bringen, d.h. auf die Verhinderung jeder Art von Referenzialität und Realismus und der Konsti-tuierung eines festen Sinns in der Tradition Flauberts „faire un livre sur rien, un livre sans attache extérieur, qui se tiendrait de lui-même par la force de son style […] un livre qui n’aurait presque de sujet“. / „Die Zeitstruktur im Gegenwartsroman am Beispiel von G. García Márquez, „Cien años de soledad“, M. Vargas Llosa, „La casa verde“ und A. Robbe-Grillet „La maison de rendez-vous“, proposes a vast and innovative model and method of analysis for narratological processes or ‘strategies’, and connected to these, in particular for temporal processes or ‘strategies’ in the Latin American and French ‘new novel’. In the first part, after clarifying the various perspectives and implications of the narrator and their consequences for temporality, and vice versa, the temporal processes or ‘strate-gies’ (‘chronology’, ‘anachrony’ – at the centre of theory and analysis of ‘anacrony’– and ‘acrony’) are formulated as a constitutive part of the construction of the semantic and pragmatic level, and thus of the textual message. The model proposed in the text in question, although based on G. Genette’s theory of temporality, goes beyond this theory. Three new macro-axes of temporality are developed: ‘circularity’, created by García Márquez in “One Hundred Years of Solitude”; ‘simultaneity’, created by Vargas Llosa in “The Green House”; and ‘timelessness’, created by Robbe-Grillet in his various works, here chosen as an example, “La maison de rendez-vous”. These three works form the second part of the research, where in One Hundred Years of Solitude the circularity is of a mythical nature, related to the biblical creation of the world, related also to the history of America, to the history of Colombia, and finally to the history of the lineage of the Buendía’s family. Thus, in “The Green House” simultaneity creates the illusion of a world that wants to represent a “total reality”, and in actu, in almost ‘real time’, on the basis of ‘permutations’ and ‘temporal superimposi-tions’, which accounts for the Amazonian world confronted with a world of logics that escape the so-called “civilized” world of which the former is its victim. The timelessness is due to its function of creating “une venture du réci” (or une récit ‘comme’ aventure) and not “un récit d’une aventure”, that is, of preventing any kind of referentiality and realism and the constitution of a fixed sense, in the tradition of Flaubert, “faire un livre sur rien, un livre sans attache extérieur, qui se tiendrait de lui-même par la force de son style […] un livre qui n’aurait presque de sujet”. / “Die Zeitstruktur im Gegenwartsroman am Beispiel von G. García Márquez, “Cien años de soledad”, M. Vargas Llosa, “La casa verde” und A. Robbe-Grillet “La maison de rendez-vous””, propone un vasto e innovador modelo y método de análisis para los procesos o ‘estrategias’ narratológicos, y conectados con éstos, en particular para los procesos o ‘estrategias’ temporales en la “nueva novela” latinoamericana y francesa. En la primera parte, luego de aclarar las diversas perspectivas e implicaciones del narrador y sus consecuencias para la temporalidad, y viceversa, se formulan los procesos o ‘estrategias’ temporales (‘cronología’, ‘anacronía’ –en el centro de la teoría y del análisis– y ‘acronía’) como una parte constitutiva para la construcción del nivel semántico y pragmático, y con ello, del mensaje textual. El modelo propuesto en el texto en cuestión, aun cuando basado en la teoría de la temporalidad de G. Genette, supera esta teoría. Se desarrollan tres nuevos macro-ejes de la temporalidad: la ‘circularidad’, creada por García Márquez en “Cien años de soledad”; la ‘simultaneidad’, creada por Vargas Llosa en “La casa verde”; y la ‘atemporalidad’, creada por Robbe-Grillet en sus diversas obras, aquí se elige como ejemplo, “La maison de rendez-vous”. Estas tres obras forman la segunda parte de la investigación dónde en “Cien años de soledad” la circularidad es de carácter mítico, relacionada con la creación bíblica del mundo, con la historia de américa, con la historia de Colombia, y al fin con la historia de la estirpe de la familia Buendía. Así, en “La casa verder” la simultaneidad crea la ilusión de mundo que quiere representar una “realidad total”, y in actu, en casi un ‘tiempo real’, en base a ‘permutaciones’ y ‘superposiciones temporales’, que da cuenta del mundo amazónico confrontado con un mundo de lógicas que escapan al mundo llamado “civilizado” del cual el primero es su víctima. La atemporalidad obedece a su función de crear “une venture du récit” (o une récit ‘comme’ aventure) y no “un récit d’une aventure”, esto es, de impedir cualquier tipo de referencialidad y de realismos y de la constitución de un sentido fijo, en la tradición de Flaubert, “faire un livre sur rien, un livre sans attache extérieur, qui se tiendrait de lui-même par la force de son style […] un livre qui n’aurait presque de sujet”.

Lewisian Genuine Realism (GR) about possible worlds is often deemed unable to accommodate impossible worlds and reap the benefits that these bestow to rival theories. This thesis explores two alternative extensions of GR into the terrain of impossible worlds. It is divided in six chapters. Chapter I outlines Lewis’ theory, the motivations for impossible worlds, and the central problem that such worlds present for GR: How can GR even understand the notion of an impossible world, given Lewis’ reductive theoretical framework? Since the desideratum is to incorporate impossible worlds into GR without compromising Lewis’ reductive analysis of modality, Chapter II defends that analysis against (old and new) objections. The rest of the thesis is devoted to incorporating impossible worlds into GR. Chapter III explores GR-friendly impossible worlds in the form of set-theoretic constructions out of genuine possibilia. Then, Chapters IV-VI venture into concrete impossible worlds. Chapter IV addresses Lewis’ objection against such worlds, to the effect that contradictions true at impossible worlds amount to true contradictions tout court. I argue that even if so, the relevant contradictions are only ever about the non-actual, and that Lewis’ argument relies on a premise that cannot be nonquestion- beggingly upheld in the face of genuine impossible worlds in any case. Chapter V proposes that Lewis’ reductive analysis can be preserved, even in the face of genuine impossibilia, if we differentiate the impossible from the possible by means of accessibility relations, understood non-modally in terms of similarity. Finally, Chapter VI counters objections to the effect that there are certain impossibilities, formulated in Lewis’ theoretical language, which genuine impossibilia should, but cannot, represent. I conclude that Genuine Realism is still very much in the running when the discussion turns to impossible worlds.

Aiming to make an intervention in both emerging Slow Cinema and classical Trauma Cinema scholarship, this thesis demonstrates the ways in which the post-trauma cinema of Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz merges aesthetics of cinematic slowness with narratives of post-trauma in his films Melancholia (2008), Death in the Land of Encantos (2007) and Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012). Diaz has been repeatedly considered as representative of what Jonathan Romney termed in 2004 “Slow Cinema”. The director uses cinematic slowness for an alternative approach to an on-screen representation of post-trauma. Contrary to popular trauma cinema, Diaz’s portrait of individual and collective trauma focuses not on the instantenaeity but on the duration of trauma. In considering trauma as a condition and not as an event, Diaz challenges the standard aesthetical techniques used in contemporary Trauma Cinema, as highlighted by Janet Walker (2001, 2005), Susannah Radstone (2001), Roger Luckhurst (2008) and others. Diaz’s films focus instead on trauma’s latency period, the depletion of a survivor’s resources, and a character’s slow psychological breakdown. Slow Cinema scholarship has so far focused largely on the films’ aesthetics and their alleged opposition to mainstream cinema. Little work has been done in connecting the films’ form to their content. Furthermore, Trauma Cinema scholarship, as trauma films themselves, has been based on the immediate and most radical signs of post-trauma, which are characterised by instantaneity; flashbacks, sudden fears of death and sensorial overstimulation. Following Lutz Koepnick’s argument that slowness offers “intriguing perspectives” (Koepnick, 2014: 191) on how trauma can be represented in art, this thesis seeks to consider the equally important aspects of trauma duration, trauma’s latency period and the slow development of characteristic symptoms. With the present work, I expand on current notions of Trauma Cinema, which places emphasis on speed and the unpredictability of intrusive memories. Furthermore, I aim to broaden the area of Slow Cinema studies, which has so far been largely focused on the films’ respective aesthetics, by bridging form and content of the films under investigation. Rather than seeing Diaz’s slow films in isolation as a phenomenon of Slow Cinema, I seek to connect them to the existing scholarship of Trauma Cinema studies, thereby opening up a reading of his films.