Essays about: "socially engaged art"

Found 5 essays containing the words socially engaged art.

  1. 1. The Silent University at Tensta konsthall : From educational platform to community building activities

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Katinka Saarnak; [2023]
    Keywords : Tensta konsthall; The Silent University; Tensta Museum; socially engaged art; pedagogic projects; solidarity; knowledge-exchange; community-building; Tensta.;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the decade-long collaboration between The Silent University and Tensta konsthall, investigating its role as a lasting, solidarity driven, educational, socially engaged art project within an art institution. Utilizing qualitative methods and institutional ethnography, the study examines the relationship between The Silent University within Tensta konsthall. READ MORE

  2. 2. Is it possible to make Ethical Dialogical Art? The ethical implications of applying Intersectional Feminist methods to work with Dialogue-based Community Art.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Sifen Wibell; [2020-11-20]
    Keywords : Knowledge Production; Dialogic Art; Situated Knowledge; Littoral Art; Intersectional Feminism; Ethics;

    Abstract : I am a white, non-binary, crip, and queer person with mixed european minority heritage, raised as part of the rural Swedish working class. My understanding of the world is defined by this background as well as by my time as a gender scholar and in art school. READ MORE

  3. 3. Post-Disaster Recovery Through Art: A case study of Reborn-Art Festival in Ishinomaki, Japan

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Eimi Tagore-Erwin; [2018]
    Keywords : Great East Japan Earthquake; art festival; machizukuri; trauma; socially engaged art; revitalization; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis closely examines Reborn-Art Festival, a new arts and culture festival inaugurated during the summer of 2017 in one of the regions hardest hit by the triple disaster that devastated the northeastern coastline of Japan in 2011. In the face of an unspeakable tragedy like the Great East Japan Earthquake art may not seem like a central concern, but this thesis focuses on that subject specifically, investigating the ways in which art has become part of the healing process in the small community of Ishinomaki by way of the large-scale festival. READ MORE

  4. 4. PRINTMAKING IN TRANSITION : Curating relations with printmaking as a tool for action

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Niki Kralli Anell; [2017]
    Keywords : Printmaking; Collaboration; Curating; Grafikens Hus; Contemporary Art; Socially Engaged Practices; Audience; Participation; Curating Context.;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how the contemporary museum for printmaking Grafikens Hus motivates printmaking in socially engaged art projects based outside of the conventional gallery. It explores how printmaking is practiced as a tool to achieve artistic and curatorial goals, and investigates what Grafikens Hus strives to achieve by making space for meeting places. READ MORE

  5. 5. Socially engaged art in Rwanda: A case study of the Inema Art Center in Kigali

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Zandra Persson; [2015]
    Keywords : Rwanda; artists; art; creativity; business; industry; growth; sharing; empowerment;

    Abstract : The degree project explores how artists can contribute to social change processes in the contemporary Rwandan context. The general aim is to put light on the new Rwandan art scene and the actors involved in it. READ MORE