Studio practice : experiments in objectless and objectiveless artmaking
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Desideri, Valentina
issued: 2023-08-15T21:57:02Z
issued: 2023
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This exegesis reflects on a set of objectless and objectiveless art practices that compose my Studio Practice, which I propose as an approach to artmaking as study and to study as artmaking. In addition to reviewing the relevant theoretical concepts that inform my practice, I discuss four instances of my Studio Practice: the practice of Political Therapy , the collaborative practice of Poethical Readings with Denise Ferreira da Silva, an example of my approach to teaching as study and the performance practice Performance Studies. Political Therapy is a one-to-one artistic practice that addresses through touch a political problem brought up by the participant. Poethical Readings experiment with well-known and newly-designed reading tools – such as the Tarots, Fake Therapy, Reiki, Astrology, amongst others – to image ethical and political questions. My approach to teaching as study experiments with turning any invitation to teach as an occasion for study to self-organize. Finally, Performance Studies is a collaborative practice of performance-making that considers the specific ways in which performance plots attention as productive of knowledge. As an aesthetic praxis, Studio Practice experiments with ways of knowing and making that do not presuppose a knowing subject, an author, or a beholder but rather remain incomplete, in/as study. Indebted to black study, study is understood as a political practice of self-organization which experiments with modes of being together that enact a critical perspective on the modern Subject.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/85484
note: STUDIO PRACTICE EXPERIMENTS IN OBJECTLESS AND OBJECTIVELESS ARTMAKING by VALENTINA DESIDERI A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) August 2023 © Valentina Desideri, 2023 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Studio Practice: Experiments in Objectless and Objectiveless Artmaking submitted by Valentina Desideri in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Examining Committee: Denise Ferreira da Silva, Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC Supervisor Mark Harris, Associate Professor, Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Phanuel Antwi, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literatures, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Professor , Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC University Examiner Scott Watson, Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, UBC University Examiner iii Abstract This exegesis reflects on a set of objectless and objectiveless art practices that compose my Studio Practice, which I propose as an approach to artmaking as study and to study as artmaking. In addition to reviewing the relevant theoretical concepts that inform my practice, I discuss four instances of my Studio Practice: the practice of Political Therapy , the collaborative practice of Poethical Readings with Denise Ferreira da Silva, an example of my approach to teaching as study and the performance practice Performance Studies. Political Therapy is a one-to-one artistic practice that addresses through touch a polit…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0435221
language: eng
degree discipline: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Silva, Denise Ferreira da
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85484