An analysis of Konstvägen Sju Älvar, an exhibition of modern Nordic sculpture along a road trough the wilderness of Northern Sweden. Konstvägen is a project for public art and contemporary art in northern Sweden. The intention is to see what happens when you exhibit art alongside a road and what function it fills. By comparing the qualities of Konstvägen to the qualities of a monument Konstvägen and it’s exhibitional functions are sought to be understood.

Thesis (D.C.A.)--University of Wollongong, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 173-188.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 10, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-41).

Orientadora: Rosangela da Silva Leote / Banca: Milton Terumitsu Sogabe / Banca: Giselle Beiguelman / Resumo: Este trabalho analisa o conceito de commons digital, originado no campo da cibercultura, no contexto de ações artísticas produzidas nos últimos anos na cidade de São Paulo. Valendome principalmente das teorias de Antonio Negri, Nicolas Bourriaud, Guy Debord e Gilles Lipovetsky, parto da retomada do "comum" como valor intrínseco à sociedade informacional, sigo com sua análise nos campos da arte pública e artemídia para, enfim, classificar cinco aspectos das poéticas do comum (p. 118), a partir de três modelos de casos: BaixoCentro (2012), Pimp My Carroça (2012) e Piscina no Minhocão (2014). Por fim, apresento os primeiros resultados da ação Terrenos Apaixonantemente Objetivos, que aplica a ideia do comum à deriva situacionista, e detalho a concepção e desenvolvimento do Derivoscópio, obra integrante da ação, um aparato vestível construído com hardware e software livres. / Abstract: This work analyzes the concept of digital commons, originated in the field of cyberculture, in the context of artistic actions produced in the last years in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Based primarily on the theories by Antonio Negri, Nicolas Bourriaud, Guy Debord and Gilles Lipovetsky, I start from the resumption of the "common" as an intrinsic value to the Information Society to proceed with its analysis in the fields of Public Art and New Media Art. Then, I classify five aspects of the poetics of the common (p. 118), based on three case models: BaixoCentro (2012), Pimp My Carroça (2012) and Piscina no Minhocão (2014). Lastly, I present the first results of the artwork Objective Passional Terrains, which applies the concept of the common to the situationist drift, detailing the design and development of the Driftscope, a wearable apparatus built with free hardware and software, as part of that artwork. / Mestre

The research is based on the belief that the Earth's survival is reliant on an understanding of the interconnectedness between people and the planet. The premise that creative expression is an inherent need in human beings and a powerful agent for social change is at the core of this study. The arts permeate all aspects of life and can play a positive pro-active role in economic and social upliftment. The study therefore explored a contemporary public context in which artists intervene in society to provide practical and functional social spaces but also, with the ecological crisis of the planet, to create an awareness of the interconnectedness of life. Place-making was of specific concern and one of the aims was to examine ways of re-shaping the appearance and meaning of public spaces. An equally important issue was the role and responsibility of both the artist and the commissioning process in a social context and the relevance of individual expression as modes of addressing social concerns and as a tool of public empowerment within a new democratic South Africa that can have a genuine impact on community well-being and social inclusion. The research therefore exists in between the arts, social sciences and the ecology of place: that is, the understanding of the role of creative intervention within social spaces. The study provides a historical context and development of new trends in public and collaborative community arts, contextualises the notion of public and argues for a repositioning of assessment criteria for the arts within a social public domain and in the interest of the people. It is based on a critical survey of international collaborative arts and its potential as a guide to alternative solutions and implementation within a South African context for creative interventions and regeneration of public spaces and empowerment and capacity building of its citizens. The research discusses the relevance and the position of the arts and craft industry as a means of poverty alleviation, job creation and empowerment in South Africa. Rebuilding community demands both the rejuvenation of social spaces and the restoration of community esteem together with mutual and self-respect. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / D. Litt. et Phil (Art History)

A presente pesquisa se estabelece junto a um processo investigativo que inter-relaciona prática artística e produção textual. Consiste na reflexão produzida a partir da realização de três proposições no campo da intervenção urbana desenvolvidas entre 2013 e 2015 nas cidades de Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE e Caxias do Sul/RS. Toma como fio condutor a análise de trabalhos instaurados a partir de e em relação a monumentos públicos e equipamentos urbanos associados a imagens e objetos cotidianos. Ao se inscreverem no espaço público, essas práticas artísticas evidenciam problemáticas específicas desse lugar atravessado por diversos agenciamentos e tensões e que demanda constantes reelaborações de métodos e de posicionamentos pelo artista-pesquisador. Compreendidos como ações-dispositivo, esses trabalhos se propõem como ações políticas ao evidenciar a importância das formas de inserção contextual e das relações estabelecidas entre público e obra em práticas de intervenção urbana. Como desdobramento, a análise aborda questões relacionadas ao estatuto da imagem fotográfica enquanto registro processual que articula noções de obra e documento. / This research is established as an investigation process that relates artistic practice and textual production. It consists of a reflection upon three propositions on the field of urban intervention that were developed between 2013 and 2015 in the cities of Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE and Caxias do Sul/RS. Its core is the analysis of works that are made on and in relation to public monuments and urban equipments associated to images and everyday objects. When inscribed in the public space, these artistic practices make evident some specific typical problems of this space, which is crossed by various kinds of intermediations and tensions. It demands, therefore, constant changes in methods and position takings by the artist-researcher. Understood as device-actions, these works are political actions for their capacity of making evident the importance of contextual insertion ways and of the relations established between the public and works in urban interventions. As a consequence, the analysis brings up questions related to the statute of the image as a processual register that links the notions of work and document.

viii, 77 p. : ill. / The focus of this study was a free site-specific dance and music performance for the general public in Alton Baker Park (Eugene, Oregon), designed to enhance public engagement with the park and with dance. Collaborative processes with participating dancers, composers, and musicians fostered community building between the artists. Informing literature covers the impact of site-specific dance performances on communities, choreographic methodology, the history of site-specific artwork, the impact on, and consideration of, the audience in site-specific projects, and collaboration in the arts. Consideration of the surrounding community and the inherent political nature of site-specific work directly influenced every decision throughout the process. Themes emerged from the focus on building community, engaging the patrons with the site, and investigating process. Themes include the Culminating Performance, Common Values, Collaboration, Audience, Process, Journaling and Research, and a Final Summary. Reflection on the process reveals insights and suggestions for future endeavors. / Committee in charge: Dr. Jenifer P. Craig, Chairperson; Christian Cherry, Member; Walter Kennedy, Member

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research deals with the Public Art in Santa Maria / RS, with the main object of study Eduardo Kobra‟s mural accomplished in the Municipal Library of that city. The authors that help me to articulate and combine with the Public Art are Arend (2010); Alves (2011), Peixoto (2009, 2012) and Silva (2005), for the artist's contextualization in interaction with his work and the public, and theirs among themselves, considering the policies of articulation among artist, space, work, public and promoters of art. The urban public of the city of Santa Maria is analyzed on the view of works installation in these areas, and the influence of the Course of Arts and Letters of the Federal Uni-versity of Santa Maria, since 1964, having as basis the works of Foletto (2008) and Foletto and Bisoning (2001). Taking as its central point the artist Eduardo Kobra‟s work, his research and involvement with Public Art, I contextualize about the influ-ences that reverberate in his artistic production, articulating his productions with other artists who had / have connection with his research, and influence of graffiti and hip hop in his career. The photograph and the memory are treated as proposers of pos-sibilities and reflections on the current context and in the art, based on Bergson (2011), Catroga (2009) and Richoeur (2007). Considering the different looks, from interviews with groups of local artists and a representative of the government, the main instigator and deliberator of the art in the city, you can see the relevance of Kobra‟s work in the city to contemplate on the art scene on the conflict between the visual arts and the performance of the government. That has conditioned positions and oppositions in relation to the field of art and art in the city, where the public as an extra in the artistic field of Public Art in the city. / A presente pesquisa trata da Arte Pública em Santa Maria/RS, tendo como objeto principal de estudo o mural de Eduardo Kobra realizado na Biblioteca Municipal da referida cidade. Os autores que me ajudam a articular e conjugar com a Arte Públi-ca, são Arend (2010); Alves (2011), Peixoto (2009; 2012) e Silva (2005), para a con-textualização do artista em interação com a obra e o público, e destes entre si, con-siderando as políticas de articulação entre artista, espaço, obra, público e fomenta-dores da arte. O espaço urbano, público da cidade de Santa Maria é analisado sobre o viéz da instalação de obras nestes espaços, e da influência do Curso de Artes e Letras da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, a partir de 1964, tendo como bases as obras de Foletto (2008) e Foletto e Bisoning (2001). Tomando como ponto central a obra do artista Eduardo Kobra, suas pesquisas e envolvimento com a Arte Pública, constextualizo acerca das influências que reverberaram em sua produção artística, articulando suas produções com as de outros artistas que tiveram/têm ligação com suas pesquisas, e da influência do grafite e do hip hop em sua carreira. A fotografia e a memória são tratadas como propositoras de possibilidades e reflexões no con-texto atual e na arte, embasadas em Bergson (2011), Catroga (2009) e Richoeur (2007). Considerando os diferentes olhares, a partir de entrevistas com os grupos de artistas locais e de um representante do poder público, o principal fomentador e deli-berador da arte na cidade, é possível perceber a relevância da obra de Kobra para refletir sobre o panorama artístico local diante do embate entre as artes visuais e a atuação do poder público. Que tem condicionado posições e contraposições em re-lação ao campo da arte e da Arte Pública eUrbana na cidade, onde o público é con-siderado como um figurante no campo artístico da Arte Pública na cidade.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:19:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ana.pdf: 7346972 bytes, checksum: 1fc6bc939f99ad796de3c5823d3ece07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The artistic practice called Public Art is usually associated with art that appears in a communal space, with the circulation of people (the public), with easy access, and with open areas. This conception, however, becomes unstable when challenged by the actual significations, relations, and varied actions surrounding Public Art: with the actualities of seeing, feeling, and doing. Our gaze/experience, which unfolds in space-time, is determined by social flux and territories, is potentially formed out of confusions of the senses, as well as contests of values, and also by the subversion and negation of already instituted reifications of thought and of practice. In fact, Public Art is surrounded by a gaze/experience that consolidates these space-times in small, cultural ecosystems, whose emerging artistic processes are imbued with their own time and reality. This investigation proposes a better understanding of Public Art in the context of movement, specificity (relational, critical, spatial, ethical, political, discursive), multiplicity deriving directly from our gaze/experience in the socio-cultural space-time in which we live, which emanates from the recent past. Its inquiry stems from the knowledge understood as the play of experience, understood within the context of subjectivities and inter-subjectivities, and the resulting reversals of knowledge. Considering this understanding of public art, this research was developed, created and filtered through Lacania n theory, conceived as a system of thought based on the notion that the human is only constituted as a subject through a social relation mediated by the Other. Two Lacanian concepts constitute the principal basis of this investigation. The first is the articulation of human referential registers Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic (RIS) through the topological figure of the Borromean knot. The other is the conception of the gaze that gives birth to the premise of existence as a given-to-see, he who sees, and therefore, the development of the field known as the scopic and the resulting dialectic between the subject and the Other. The conceptual matrix that articulates the methodology was based, analogically, according to the logic of the Borromean knot. Consequently, in each part of the work the contents develop through three basic links, articulated between them, and sustained by a fourth link that permits the visibility of reflexivity and not the homogenization of the work. This methodological recourse permitted an investigative reflexivity capable of consolidating interrelated issues that sustain themselves in a circular, dynamic thematic. This theory-system, understood as the art of constantly repeating the game of representation, of resignifying the world in which we live, leads us to think about how and how much we are aware of fundamental changes and, in the same way, to make us aware of our participation, with ethical-political responsibility, in the society to which we belong / As práticas artísticas denominadas Arte Pública caracterizam, de forma imediata, uma noção de arte associada a um espaço comum, com circulação de pessoas (o público) de acesso fácil e em áreas abertas. Porém, esta acepção torna-se frágil quando investigamos que estamos ante uma trama de fundamentações que sustentam significações, relações e ações várias acerca do que chamamos Arte Pública. Fundamentações que decorrem dos modos de ver, sentir e fazer. Nosso olhar/experiência, que se processa em espaços tempos determinados por meio de fluxos-sociais e territoriais, potencialmente conformados pela fricção de sentidos, seja tanto pelo questionamento de valores, como pela subversão ou a negação dos já instituídos quão cristalizações do pensamento e do fazer. Um olhar/experiência que se consolida nesses espaços-tempo em pequenas ecologias culturais das quais emergem processos artísticos comprometidos com seu tempo e sua realidade. Esta investigação se propôs um melhor entendimento das fundamentações da Arte Pública tais como mobilidade, especificidade (relacional, crítica, espacial, éticopolítica, discursiva) multiplicidade e emergência, as quais, derivando diretamente de nosso olhar/experiênci no espaço-tempo sócio-cultural em que vivemos, emanam de um passado relativamente recente. Fundamentações que jogam com o saber da experiência e da produção de subjetividades e inter-subjetividades resultantes numa prática artística condizente com dito saber. Considerando esta condição, deste saber arte pública, o desenvolvimento da pesquisa se realizou e foi perpassada pela teoria lacaniana, apreendida como sistema de pensamento constituído a partir da afirmativa de que o homem só se constitui como sujeito através de uma relação social mediada pelo Outro. A partir deste ponto, duas concepções, como especificadas por Lacan, se priorizaram e se constituíram no substrato principal da pesquisa. Uma, referente a articulação dos registros referenciais humanos Real, Imaginário e Simbólico (RIS)- através da figura topológica do nó-borromiano. A outra, referente à concepção do olhar que parte de premissa da existência de um dado-a-ver aquele que vê, e de como, o desenvolvimento do campo chamado escópico é resultante da dialética entre o sujeito e o Outro. A matriz conceitual para articular metodologicamente a pesquisa foi pautada, analogicamente, segundo a lógica do nó-borromiano. Deste modo em cada parte em que está dividido o trabalho os conteúdos se desenvolveram através de três elos temáticos básicos, articuláveis entre si, e sustentados por um quarto elo que permitiu a visibilidade da reflexão e a não homogeneização assuntiva. Este recurso metodológico permitiu uma reflexão investigativa capaz de consolidar assuntos relacionados entre si e que autosustentam uma circularidade temática dinâmica. Neste contexto da investigação, esta teoria-sistema, proporcionou por um lado, compreender como a Arte refaz constantemente o jogo representacional na medida em que re-significamos o mundo em que vivemos; a cogitar sobre como e quanto estamos cientes das mudanças que lhe dão fundamentação e, do mesmo modo, a conscientizar-nos de nossa participação, co responsabilidade ético-política, na sociedade em que estamos inseridos

A presente pesquisa se estabelece junto a um processo investigativo que inter-relaciona prática artística e produção textual. Consiste na reflexão produzida a partir da realização de três proposições no campo da intervenção urbana desenvolvidas entre 2013 e 2015 nas cidades de Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE e Caxias do Sul/RS. Toma como fio condutor a análise de trabalhos instaurados a partir de e em relação a monumentos públicos e equipamentos urbanos associados a imagens e objetos cotidianos. Ao se inscreverem no espaço público, essas práticas artísticas evidenciam problemáticas específicas desse lugar atravessado por diversos agenciamentos e tensões e que demanda constantes reelaborações de métodos e de posicionamentos pelo artista-pesquisador. Compreendidos como ações-dispositivo, esses trabalhos se propõem como ações políticas ao evidenciar a importância das formas de inserção contextual e das relações estabelecidas entre público e obra em práticas de intervenção urbana. Como desdobramento, a análise aborda questões relacionadas ao estatuto da imagem fotográfica enquanto registro processual que articula noções de obra e documento. / This research is established as an investigation process that relates artistic practice and textual production. It consists of a reflection upon three propositions on the field of urban intervention that were developed between 2013 and 2015 in the cities of Porto Alegre/RS, Juazeiro do Norte/CE and Caxias do Sul/RS. Its core is the analysis of works that are made on and in relation to public monuments and urban equipments associated to images and everyday objects. When inscribed in the public space, these artistic practices make evident some specific typical problems of this space, which is crossed by various kinds of intermediations and tensions. It demands, therefore, constant changes in methods and position takings by the artist-researcher. Understood as device-actions, these works are political actions for their capacity of making evident the importance of contextual insertion ways and of the relations established between the public and works in urban interventions. As a consequence, the analysis brings up questions related to the statute of the image as a processual register that links the notions of work and document.