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Abstract: Through the lens of ugliness, the purpose of this Master’s thesis is to explore a potential model of a new unrestricted aesthetics. I, hereby, refer to an aesthetics beyond its canonical order, an individualistically-driven scheme of standards or perhaps no standards at all. All can be simplified with Eco’s quote on the opposition of the beautiful and the ugly: ’A beautiful nose shouldn’t be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility’. While the aesthetics of beauty has already positioned framework of rules in regards to proportion, symmetry, and harmony, the aesthetics of ugliness has no particular guidelines and limitations whatsoever. Unlike the beautiful, what we perceive as ugly doesn’t have its lawfulness, because for a long time in the history of art, ugliness was just the opposite face of beauty. As a consequence, the ugly embodies a big category of undetermined standards in visual arts and culture, which leads to it becoming a large unmapped territory of boundless autonomy. The ugly is in that context the key to facing and unleashing our phenomenological fears of bleak dark deformed realities that lie unchallenged and unaddressed on account of ugliness’ taboo status. Thus, when familiarised, I believe ugliness in art has a powerful impact, a quality that we have to yet begin to understand to get a full image of ourselves, for if we rely on beauty, as we did for such a long time in history, we are depriving ourselves of a true holistic proportion in art.
Keywords: art, man, ugliness, new, aesthetics, beauty, artist, time, image, Dada, history, context, different, body, personal, culture, transform, political, philosophy, standard, perspective.
Published in RUNG: 10.05.2024; Views: 0; Downloads: 0
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Abstract: The master thesis entitled “Engaging Bodies Through Expanded Art Practice” is divided in two parts: the first one is the theoretical part which places socially engaged arts in the time-line of contemporary art, followed by an overview of my practical work entitled “Obsolete Properties”. The central aim of the theoretical part is to determine the structures of socially engaged art projects, with all their ambiguities, caused by the inherent connection between the social and the artistic. Topics of such process-based interdisciplinary and participatory art projects reflect at the same time on cultural traditions as well as on current social issues. The second part is an analysis of the artwork I created and set in different contexts. It consists of common materials that arrived into my hands after their previous owners moved their homes. The artwork celebrates artistic process and environmental sustainability while on the other side serves as an agent on the discourse of values.
Keywords: #ART #ENGAGED_ART #ART_PRACTICE #SOCIAL_PRACTICE #SOCIALLY_ENGAGED_ART #CONTEMPORARY_ART #PROCESS #MEDIA #FORM #PERFORMANCE #PARTICIPATION #COLLABORATION #PUBLIC_SPACE #AESTHETICS #POLITICS #ETHICS #INTERACTIVITY #DESIGN #THEATRE #EDUCATION #AUTHORITY #ART_STUDENT #ART_OBJECT #SYSTEM #KNOWLEDGE #PLASTIC #SCULPTURE #FINE_ARTS #INTERMEDIA_ART #VALUES #FREEDOM_OF_EXPRESION #DOCUMENTATION #AUDIENCE #TRASH #MATERIAL #SUSTAINABILITY #CONSERVATION #CONTEXT #TEMPORARY_EXPERIENCE_ZONE #TEZ #WAR #HOLOCAUST
Published in RUNG: 20.07.2020; Views: 3667; Downloads: 113
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