Title: | Artistic Research in Public Space. Participation in material-based art. |
Author(s): | Berg, Arild |
Date: | 2014 |
Language: | en |
Pages: | 254 |
Department: | Taiteen laitos Department of Art |
Major/Subject: | Contemporary Art |
ISBN: | 978-952-60-5602-9 (electronic) 978-952-60-5601-2 (printed) |
Series: | Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS, 33/2014 |
ISSN: | 1799-4942 (electronic) 1799-4934 (printed) 1799-4942 (ISSN-L) |
Supervising professor(s): | Varto, Juha, Prof. Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art, Finland |
Thesis advisor(s): | Jakobsen, Mette Mo, Dr., UHR, Norway; Vihma, Susan, Prof., Aalto University, Finland; Varto, Juha, Prof., Aalto University, Finland; Heape, Cris, Dr., SDU, Denmark; Olsen, Roar, Prof., SINTEF, Norway |
Subject: | Applied arts, Art education, Design, Environmental art |
Keywords: | Participatory processes, material based art, artistic research, public art, participatory design |
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Abstract:There is a need to put more effort into exploring new ideas of what role material-based art can play in society today. There are many technical and political perspectives describing the role of materials in the participatory development of the public space, but still more knowledge about the artistic aspects of environmental issues is needed, because when the environment is materialized, a meaning is always created, and from a social and cultural perspective, this meaning is important. There has been extensive research undertaken on participatory design and material-based art, and on the multiple pathways for creative practice and research practice to come together, but research is lacking on the relationship between participatory design and material-based art. When considering ethnography, it has also been proposed that more artificial set-ups should be used, and more novel and exciting ways of thinking about the work of fieldwork should be practised. One should not only passively live in a specific culture to observe it, but ethnographers should, to a larger extent, participate, act up and act out, as in the early legendary ethnographic studies. Based on this, the main research question concerned how participatory processes could contribute to material-based art. The supporting research questions consider how collective concepts can emerge in a participatory process and how collective concepts can be materialized into artworks. A final supporting research question involved how the artworks could be implemented into a specific institution. The research questions contribute to self-identification in terms of the research outlook on participation in material-based art, aiming for an expanded understanding through a hermeneutic and descriptive research approach.
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