Glitch : an artistic investigation about relational aesthetics-based collaborative arts and its site-specificity
department or school: Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Garrett, Andrea Dirickson
issued: 2011-05-18T18:48:33Z
issued: 2011
related degree: Master of Fine Arts - MFA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This art-based project is composed of several installations that employ inter-media strategies of performance, installation art, participatory art and new media. The research paper and the body of work that was created for this research examines collaborative art that employs Nicolas Bourriaud’s concepts regarding Relational Aesthetics. The research also examines the concept of site-specificity in general. Using a critical perspective rooted in cultural studies the creative work produced uses irony and allegoric humor. Particular attention was given to transnationality factors and Brazilian antecedents
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/34672
note: GLITCH: AN ARTISTIC INVESTIGATION ABOUT RELATIONAL AESTHETICS-BASED COLLABORATIVE ARTS AND ITS SITE-SPECIFICITY by Andrea Dirickson Garrett A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS in The College of Graduate Studies (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Visual Arts) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) April 2011 © Andrea Dirickson Garrett, 2011 ii Abstract This art-based project is composed of several installations that employ inter-media strategies of performance, installation art, participatory art and new media. The research paper and the body of work that was created for this research examines collaborative art that employs Nicolas Bourriaud’s concepts regarding Relational Aesthetics. The research also examines the concept of site-specificity in general. Using a critical perspective rooted in cultural studies the creative work produced uses irony and allegoric humor. Particular attention was given to transnationality factors and Brazilian antecedents. iii Table of Contents Abstract.................................................................................................................................... ii Table of Contents ................................................................................................................... iii List of Figures………………………………………………………………………………...v Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………………vii Dedication……………………………………………………………………………………ix 1 Chapter: Introduction…………………………………………………………………...1 2 Chapter: Collaborative art ............................................................................................. 5 2.1 Genealogy and Contextualization............................................................................................ 5 2.2 Criticism to Relational Aesthetics as a theory........................................................................ 12 2.3 The site-specificity of collaborative art……………………………………………………....13 2.4 Is interventi…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2011-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0074289
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34672