Essays about: "Artist function"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words Artist function.

1. 1. Spatializing Hospitality : A design exploration on how to provide spatial agency to immigrant households in Sweden

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

   Author : Kajsa Grundström; [2023]
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   Abstract : The thesis investigates how a host country can apply ethics of hospitality to housing that allow refugees and asylum seekers spatial agency. The necessity of doing this is to reduce the passive state of being “guests” for refugees when they are waiting for answers of asylum application approval. READ MORE

3. 2. 'Ukraine Is Alive' Ukrainian Music-Making in Swedish Emergency Residencies : The impact of war, displacement, migration and networks

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

   Author : Hanna Hellström; [2023]
   Keywords : artist residencies; forced migration; music; displacement; Ukraine; identity; belonging; non-belonging; translocality; transcultural capital; social inclusion; refugee experience;

   Abstract : In February 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started the war that would lead to the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. In response to the war, SWAN, the Swedish Artists Residency Network, initiated the project Emergency residencies. READ MORE

4. 3. ”The shrieking of nothing is killing me” : Representations of society of the spectacle and hyperreality in David Bowie’s lyrics

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Mariann Gabrielsson; [2023]
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   Abstract : This text explores how the lyrics of David Bowie can be applied as supporting the critique against hyperreality and society of the spectacle, as articulated by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. This is done by focusing on three questions: 1) what elements in Bowie’s lyrics support Debord and Baudrillard, 2) how can these elements function to portray Bowie as primarily a sociologist and secondly an artist, and 3) what are the benefits of using fiction (in this case lyrics) as empirical material? From a theoretical framework building on Debord’s society of the spectacle and Baudrillard’s focus on hyperreality, I will apply a two-folded methodology of sociology through literature and socio-poetics. READ MORE

5. 4. Gut Feeling : Art and Food Digested: Figuring a Post-Human Intestinal Turn

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Sarah Guarino Werner; [2023]
   Keywords : Post-Humanism; Post-Human Subjectivity; Figuration; Vital Matter; Vibrant Matter; Trans- Corporeality; Bodies of Water; Gut Feminism; Gut Feeling; Feminism; Posthuman Food; The Intestinal System; Stacy Alaimo; Rosi Braidotti; Astrida Neimanis Jane Bennett; Elizabeth A. Wilson; Cooking Sections; Climavore; Non-Bar; Sean Raspet;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to develop a new methodological concept better to understand art and curating in a post-human setting. Departing from a post-humanist ontology, my initial idea was to analyse contemporary artworks dealing with food and trace and substantiate a figuration of the gut/intestinal system (connected to post-human notions as the ideas of trans- corporeality, vibrant matter, etc. READ MORE

6. 5. Implications of Non-Fungible Tokens for the Online Artist

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Alexia Hrenyak; [2022]
   Keywords : NFTs; Non-Fungible Tokens; Blockchain; Crypto Art; Digital Collectibles; Online Artists;

   Abstract : Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are unique virtual tokens which are stored on a blockchain and can be linked to a wide range of digital and physical assets. In the online art world, NFTs are meant to function as digital certificates of authenticity and ownership, facilitating provenance research and introducing the notion of scarcity to the digital realm. READ MORE