should one react against the laziness of railway tracks between the passage of two trains investigates the everyday as experienced in the post-industrial landscape. Through the activities of walking and mapping, fieldwork is conducted during treks that follow the route of the railroad in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. I examine detritus as post-readymade artifacts of the industrial economy that has abandoned the area. Interventions of minimal gestures engage the inherent narratives of these discarded materials. Improvised assembled sculptures mark my route as a form of wayfinding that re-appropriates the neglected urban space of the railroad right of way. Online maps document these treks as open works of art to be completed by participants as self-guided walks. The activity of walking and assembling sculptures in these marginal landscapes is a playful strategy that resists the alienation of immaterial labour in our contemporary economic context.

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Esta dissertação focaliza o diálogo entre dança contemporânea e artes visuais a partir dos anos 1990 e as novas configurações e discussões presentes nos trabalhos de criadores que transitam entre esses dois campos. Procura pensar a dança como arte contemporânea, indagando a si mesma sobre sua condição: o que a constrói e define nesses termos. As relações entre dança contemporânea e o conceitualismo são traçadas observando obras que, abandonando o formalismo e o puro exercício da estética, propõem-se a acrescentar algo em termos de concepção da arte e questionar sua própria natureza. Repensar as convenções da própria dança, o modelo de espetáculo, os espaços e formas de visibilidade são as principais questões investigadas. Especificamente, são abordados os trabalhos de Tino Sehgal (Londres, 1976- ), Wagner Schwartz (Volta Redonda, 1972- ) e a própria produção artística da autora para pensar essas relações, reivindicando uma condição conceitual da dança contemporânea nas obras próprias e nas dos artistas estudados. As desestabiliza-ções e fissuras que essa condição provoca são as ferramentas para potencializar e ampliar a visão da dança como arte contemporânea / This study focusses on the dialogue between contemporary dance and visual arts from the 1990s on, discussing the new configurations and debates proposed in works by artists who move through these two fields. Dance is thought over as contemporary art, asking itself on its condition, on what constructs and defines it. Relationships between contemporary dance and conceptualism are sketched by observing works that, having cast aside formalism and the sheer exercise of aesthetics, propose to add something in terms of art conception and inquire on their own nature. Main issues addressed here include rethinking dances very conventions, models of show or presentations, spaces, and forms of visibility; they are discussed against the background of works by Tino Sehgal (born in Britain, 1976), Wagner Schwartz (born in Brazil, 1972) and the authors own production, pleading for a conceptual condition of their works in contemporary dance. The destabilization and fissures generated by such condition are taken as tools to strengthen and amplify the vision of dance as contemporary art

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Esta dissertação focaliza o diálogo entre dança contemporânea e artes visuais a partir dos anos 1990 e as novas configurações e discussões presentes nos trabalhos de criadores que transitam entre esses dois campos. Procura pensar a dança como arte contemporânea, indagando a si mesma sobre sua condição: o que a constrói e define nesses termos. As relações entre dança contemporânea e o conceitualismo são traçadas observando obras que, abandonando o formalismo e o puro exercício da estética, propõem-se a acrescentar algo em termos de concepção da arte e questionar sua própria natureza. Repensar as convenções da própria dança, o modelo de espetáculo, os espaços e formas de visibilidade são as principais questões investigadas. Especificamente, são abordados os trabalhos de Tino Sehgal (Londres, 1976- ), Wagner Schwartz (Volta Redonda, 1972- ) e a própria produção artística da autora para pensar essas relações, reivindicando uma condição conceitual da dança contemporânea nas obras próprias e nas dos artistas estudados. As desestabiliza-ções e fissuras que essa condição provoca são as ferramentas para potencializar e ampliar a visão da dança como arte contemporânea / This study focusses on the dialogue between contemporary dance and visual arts from the 1990s on, discussing the new configurations and debates proposed in works by artists who move through these two fields. Dance is thought over as contemporary art, asking itself on its condition, on what constructs and defines it. Relationships between contemporary dance and conceptualism are sketched by observing works that, having cast aside formalism and the sheer exercise of aesthetics, propose to add something in terms of art conception and inquire on their own nature. Main issues addressed here include rethinking dances very conventions, models of show or presentations, spaces, and forms of visibility; they are discussed against the background of works by Tino Sehgal (born in Britain, 1976), Wagner Schwartz (born in Brazil, 1972) and the authors own production, pleading for a conceptual condition of their works in contemporary dance. The destabilization and fissures generated by such condition are taken as tools to strengthen and amplify the vision of dance as contemporary art

Este trabalho compreende a tradução diretamente do russo de textos poéticos do escritor pós-modernista Dimitri Prigov, reunidos na coletânea intitulada Cinqüenta Gotas de Sangue num Meio Absorvente, e uma exploração teórica de aspectos relevantes da estética a que se filia a obra: o conceitualismo russo. O papel de enfrentamento representado por essa estética com relação aos padrões canônicos da literatura e a natureza das inovações por ela introduzidas em matéria de estratégias lingüísticas - no ambiente de cultura que marcou o fim do regime soviético - são questões que transparecem do desenvolvimento do tema. Secundariamente, ficam também evidenciadas as relações que estabelece entre o visual e o textual nas artes russas bem como a força do substrato histórico de que se vale no processo de criação poética. / This work comprehends a directly translation from Russian of the poems digest Fifty Drops of Blood in Absorbent Medium, wrote by the postmodernist poet Dimitri Prigov, and a theoretical exploration on the main issues of the aesthetics which his work is affiliated, the conceptualism. The confrontational role represented by this aesthetics, related to literary canonic patterns and the innovations introduced by it on matters of linguistic strategies - in a cultural environmental of ending soviet regime - are all them kind of questions which surges from the development of the theme. Secondary the work evidences too the relationship between the visual and the textual in Russian arts, established by the aesthetics, as well the power of history\'s sub-extracts in the creation process of poetry itself.

Este estudo trata do desenvolvimento da rede de arte postal na América Latina desde o seu início no final da década de 1960 até a sua presença da XVI Bienal de São Paulo em 1981. Para isso, são retomadas as redes latino-americanas de trocas de poesia experimental estruturadas na década de 1960. Em seguida, são descritas as trajetórias de alguns dos protagonistas da arte postal nesta região, bem como as exposições e publicações coletivas que eles organizaram. Nesse momento, são abordadas as manifestações da rede de arte postal na Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colômbia, El Salvador, México, Uruguai e Venezuela. Por fim, é analisado o caso específico do Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP), explicitando como essa instituição conectou-se organicamente à rede. Esta pesquisa tem como ponto de partida acervo de arte conceitual do MAC USP e acompanha a expansão da rede a partir das grandes mostras coletivas realizadas entre 1972 e 1981 na América Latina. Além disso, destaca a relação da arte postal com as ditaduras militares como decisiva na caracterização desta prática entre os latino-americanos. / This study is about the development of the mail art network in Latin America since its beginning at the end of the 60s until its presence on the XVI Biennial of São Paulo in 1981. For this purpose, the Latin American networks of experimental poetry exchange, structured in the 60s, are recaptured. After this, the trajectories of some of the mail art protagonists in this region are described, as well as the collective exhibitions and publications that they organized. At this point, the demonstrations of the mail art networks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela are approached. Finally, the specific case of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP) is analyzed, explaining how that institution connected itself organically to the mail art network. This research starts with the conceptual art collection of the MAC USP and follows the expansion of the network from the large collective exhibitions performed between 1972 and 1981 in Latin America. Besides that, it emphasizes the relation between mail art and the military dictatorships as a decisive part of the characterization of this practice among Latin American.

The aim of the dissertation is to analyse works of a Moscow conceptualist Dmitrij Prigov. Prigov approached his medially diversified legacy (that was characterized by media diversity and quantitative hypertrophy) as a life-long project Dmitrij Aleksandrovič Prigov. (project DAP). One of the goals of the project was to remain unidentified, which means to suspend the straight-forward relation between an individual media product and the intention of the authorial subject. However, the connection between the media products and the authorial subject preserved. It is the modality of the connection that changed. The dissertation focuses on the analysis of the modality of the connection. The research begins with an analysis of the media products and proceeds toward the issue of authorial subjetʼs identity construction. Nevertheless, it is the media products that the identity of the authorial subject is constructed by. Authorial subject, however, plays the role of the (co-)agent in the production process of the media products together with other non-human agents like iterable patterns, instruments, techniques and semiotic systems. Methodologically, the dissertation emerges from the intersection of media theories, social theories and the theoretical reflection of the phenomena gathered under the umbrella...

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How people survive and thrive through adversity is a question which has prompted much research. There is little agreement on the definition of resilience beyond the basic idea of "bouncing back", resulting in many studies which offer contradictory and confusing information. This study sought to organise the literature into broad conceptual categories, and attempted to explain some of the differences in definitions and research methods at the level of paradigm. A need to reconceptualise resilience was identified and undertaken in view of input from ecosystemic, cybernetic and postmodem paradigms. Attention was given especially to the role oflanguage, meaning and description, and the role of the observer/researcher in such a reconceptualisation. Guidelines were offered for approaching research in future. Finally, the context of the researcher was examined in an attempt at self-reflexivity as part of the process of research as proposed in the reconceptualisation. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)