Dissertations / Theses: 'Ephemeral art'

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O'Neill, Mary. "Ephemeral art : mourning and loss." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8012.

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Ephemeral art is usually understood as reflecting a desire to dematerialize the art object in order to evade the demands of the market, or to democratize or challenge art museums. However, in many ephemeral artworks something much more fundamental is involved. In this thesis I explore the hypothesis that the use of ephemerality by some artists is best understood, not solely in terms of art world issues but of the relationship between ephemerality, mourning and loss. I will begin with a refinement of the definition of ephemeral art, which is often confused with temporary works. This definition identifies four characteristics of ephemeral art: time, communicative act, inherent vice and directive intent. Ephemeral art often involves works that do not exist in a steady state, but change or decay slowly. This temporal aspect is examined through a discussion of the boredom they consciously evoke, which can be seen not only as an acute awareness of time but also a form of mouming for lost desire. The different physical state of ephemeral works represents a shift from the art object to communicative act. This shift is exemplified by artists working in the 1960s, particularly those influenced by John Cage. Cage's engagement with Buddhism and the subsequent work he produced demonstrates that the appreciation of transience is a reflection of wider cultural values. The growing interest in Buddhist philosophy and the engagement with transience at that period are discussed, not as cause and effect, but as both stemming from the same desire to find alternative forms of meaning and expression at a time when traditional structures of meaning were in decline. The use of non-traditional, non-durable materials and the incorporation of chance and ephemerality mean that the resulting worlds possess an 'inherent vice' which results in the demise or disappearance of the work. This is a key feature of ephemeral art, which distinguishes it from temporary works. The latter are designed to function for a fixed period, after which they are discarded or destroyed. The conclusions drawn have implications that reach beyond artworld concerns with durable or at least preservable commodities. These works offer insights into the mourning process which are powerful and profound reflections on the human condition. These works can act as a means of engaging with bereavement, disenfranchised grief and ambiguous loss. In a world where many societies may be deemed post-religious traditional myths and rituals that once served to alleviate fear or mortality and the pain of bereavement are no longer viable or effective, this is of immense significance.

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Cooke, Jacqueline. "Art ephemera, aka "Ephemeral traces of 'alternative space' : the documentation of art events in London 1995-2005, in an art library"." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2007. http://research.gold.ac.uk/3475/.

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This research is based on reflexive practice as a subject librarian for visual art, concerned with representation (of artists) and context (of art practice and its representation) in the academic library, as a heterotopia. My thesis is that the aim to create an ‘alternative’ art space remained operative in London between 1995 and 2005, although the term was decried. The research addresses the problem of documentation of transient contemporary art practices, by collecting and analysing ephemera and developing a resource based upon them. Art ephemera are by-products of institutions, galleries, exhibitions, and curatorialactivities that may be significant in terms of criticality but which are often not recorded adequately and remain un-archived. The strategies of representation that ephemera mobilise take place at an interface of art aims and social structures, an area that has been a vital site of contemporary practice. I review major issues in contemporary criticism of the ‘avant-garde’ and ‘alternative’,showing the discourse of the alternative to be an ethical discourse about practice. Identifying citation as means of interpretation, I draw my account from a reading ofephemera in the chapters: “Citation, marginalia, mockery, fakes and tailpieces” where I identify visual and textual qualities of ephemera, “Artists, spaces and institutions,”where I present the themes of mapping London and self-institutionalisation, and “Counter to ?” where I report a distancing from counter-cultural aims and development of complex alternatives. I evaluate existing collections of art ephemera in libraries, projects to facilitate access to them, and cataloguing and collecting policies. I advocate use of catalogues to recontextualise ephemera. In conclusion, I present a complex notion of ‘alternative space’ in art practice as a space for dialogue with, rather than opposition to established institutions and circuits of contemporary art and I endorse collection of ephemera as a source for diverse histories.

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Schanding, Desireé Rose. "The ephemeral form and objects of inspection /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10828.

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Martinon, Jean-Paul. "The ephemeral event in modern and contemporary art : words from ashes." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269658.

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Tillotson, Zoe. "Ephemeral art : a philosophical proposition about the nature of time and being." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650331.

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Klos, Allison Elaine Sheriff Mary D. "An invitation to the exotic ephemeral art in Joseph Gilliers's Le cannaméliste français /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2200.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Art Art History." Discipline: Art; Department/School: Art.

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Fries, Katherine. "Touching Impermanence: Experiential Embodied Engagements with Materiality in Contemporary Art Practice." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17880.

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Touching impermanence describes the experiential moment in an art encounter when one senses the enchanted reality of one’s interconnections within the sentient matterflow of existence. All matter in existence is constantly vibrating, changing, assembling and evolving into forms and organisms, cycling through decay and disintegration, then reforming again with diversity and difference; this is the impermanence of sentient matter-flow. Humans are just one form of these reciprocal assemblages; we are within and part of sentient matter-flow. We also co-create with sentient matter-flow, changing these cycles on micro and macro levels, just as they change us. On a macro level human actions have impacted and changed the Earth’s biosphere, altering and polluting sentient matter-flows to the extent that our present time period is becoming known as the Anthropocene, the human age of destruction and disconnection. There are many efforts to readdress our anthropocentric feelings of apathetic disconnection from the Earth; one is found in the arts and correlates with my practice-led research. This doctoral study of sensate experiences of materiality and haptic thinking, which provide both maker and audience with direct palpable experience of time, forms a specific understanding of touching impermanence. My art processes involve working with tactile materials such as beeswax; tree branches, stumps and bark; paper; ash; rocks; ice; snow; charcoal; light and fungi. Engaging with these materials cocreatively involves a methodology of touch, multisensorily following materialities’ sentient matter-flow. Acting with the material, I am present to the material’s own sense of time, interactions, agency, histories, layers of interbeing and interconnections with surrounding matter. This requires being open to the mysteriousness of materials, inviting moments of enchantment within art encounters and the realisation of touching impermanence. This thesis investigates my studio practice and works produced, alongside related practices of Australian and international artists, by drawing on the intersections between New Materialism discourses and Buddhist philosophy to address aspects of phenomenology and eco-philosophy in the complexities of these art practices and artwork encounters.

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Griffin, Sylvia Clare. "Inscribing Memory: Art and the Place of Personal Expressions of Grief in Memorial Culture." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16138.

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Expressing grief and engaging in mourning are vital healing processes for those who have experienced loss, trauma or violence. Regardless of whether in the distant past or as an ongoing condition, evidence suggests that the mourning process and the partaking of commemorative rituals are essential to the psychological and emotional wellbeing of the individual. This thesis considers artistic alternatives to the role that monuments and memorials have traditionally played in assisting this process. A range of theorists and philosophers including those in the fields of art criticism, history, and trauma studies are referred to in ascertaining not only how monuments and memorials work, but the role that contemporary art can play in imparting meaningful remembrance and solace. This project tests the proposition that contemporary art, through both public and personal expression, can offer an open- ended re-evaluation of the past, instead of the static nature of traditional commemoration. I contend that this can be realised in the form of actions and ephemeral, temporary and materially challenging artistic means in engaging the viewer empathically. I will advance arguments to challenge fixing memory in place and time while also arguing for the place of smaller, more personal expressions of remembrance. My studio practice incorporates pertinent psychological aspects such as postmemory and trauma-induced forgetting in the form of absence, and considers the work of key artists. This studio work investigates materiality – as both traditionally employed in memorial culture, such as metal and stone - and other forms including textiles and more fugitive examples such as hair and the use of fire. The relevance of time, memory and ritual are also evident in this work as well as in the thesis. Although informed by personal, familial experience – often conveyed through my use of family possessions - my works appeal to broader aspects of memorial culture, engaging in customs and rituals and universal themes of loss and grief.

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SALVANESCHI, CAMILLA. "Legitimising the Ephemeral: The Exhibition Magazine as Epitome of the Contemporary." Doctoral thesis, Università IUAV di Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11578/302416.

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The dissertation focuses on the magazines published by biennial exhibitions, herein called exhibition magazines. Departing from the analysis of the periodic relationship between magazines and biennials, I look at the two formats in tandem, as temporal constructions— whose existence extends between the past and the future, whilst existing in the present—in a continuous tension between becoming (ephemerality) and unbecoming (institutionalisation), which is, I argue, the very feature that allows them to engage with contemporary art and contemporaneity’s own becoming. Representing the dual drive between becoming and unbecoming, the exhibition magazine serves to disseminate the biennial through space and time, acting not only as a promotional tool, but as a vehicle through which the exhibition’s temporality is narrowed and transformed to engage with contemporaneity and audience. I depart from an historical-chronological perspective to consider the first three exhibition magazines: la biennale published by the Venice Biennale between 1950 and 1971, the documenta journals which have been revived with different formats at every new iteration of the show since 1997, and the Manifesta Journal published by Manifesta between 2003 and 2014. Building on the case studies, alongside a practice-based approach comprising of the development of an art periodical database and the launch of a journal devoted to the study of art’s ostensivity and exhibitions, titled OBOE (On Biennals and Other Exhibitions), I have been able to demonstrate the intricate—at times submissive, at others mutinous—relationship between magazines and biennials and how they both come to define contemporary art and engage with contemporaneity’s demands. Indeed, I argue that while these magazines are a niche within the niche of art periodical studies, they have become exemplary in representing the relation of mutual servitude between magazines and the art system at large.

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Hindman, Julie Lynn. "Shadow of a Memory." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1317.

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I have gained control over a whole space through the use of video projections, soundscaping and various other materials including some interactive media, enabling me to give the audience a fuller sensual experience. Multiâ€media has made it possible for artists such as myself to create artworks that require more than a visual conversation with the viewer. The manipulation of memory by time became a physical manifestation in the environments that I create with the use of multiâ€media installations.

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Soltys, Hannah, and Hannah Soltys. "Archiving Experience: A Case Study of the Ephemeral Artworks and Archives of Allan Kaprow, Eva Hesse, and Richard Tuttle." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626142.

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In this thesis, I will examine the difficulties of documenting ephemeral art and the possible solutions that archivists, curators, artists and other museum professions have come up with. I will begin by presenting a background of the history of performance art, which was the impetus for all ephemeral art to come. Then I will present case studies of three artists: Allan Kaprow, Eva Hesse, and Richard Tuttle, and their archival processes, all of which provide very different approaches to similar artistic problems. Finally, I will discuss the implications of re-performance and re-creation of ephemeral artworks.

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Driver, Alice Laurel. "CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND EPHEMERAL ART: FEMINICIDE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF MEMORY IN CIUDAD JUÁREZ, 1998-2008." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/2.

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This dissertation examines representations of feminicide victims in documentary film, novels, non-fiction, art, and graffiti and argues that these images express anxiety about they way women traverse and inhabit the geography of Ciudad Juárez, often giving precedence to the idea of the public female body as hypersexualized. In order to reclaim memory of the victims some cultural producers focus on the testimonial form in which victims’ families and other activists share their stories or construct informal memorials in the city; these remembrances later appear in works of non-fiction, film, and art, as markers of the process of creating and preserving memory. My dissertation analyzes such works as the documentary Señorita extraviada (2001) by Lourdes Portillo, the non-fiction work Huesos en el desierto (2002) by Sergio González Rodríguez, and the novel 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño, among other cultural expressions, to show how feminicide victims and their families have been marked by and have challenged a pervasive public discourse about female sexuality.

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Dworsky, Joel Garrett. "Ghosts on the Coast of Paradise: Identifying and Interpreting the Ephemeral Remains of Bermuda's 18th Century Shipyards." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626650.

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Bianchi, Marilda. "Arte e meio ambiente nas poéticas contemporâneas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/93/93131/tde-05052015-191223/.

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Este é um estudo sobre o desenvolvimento e a prática de arte voltada para questões ambientais, cujo objeto de arte possa ser o próprio ambiente, por meio de ações ou intervenções em espaços públicos ou privados, construções de objetos de arte com utilização de materiais não convencionais, com proposta de foco ou crítica a questões ambientais. A pesquisa estabeleceu investir em um levantamento de artistas cuja poética se envolva com o meio ambiente, como um exercício de crítica de arte. Escolhi os artistas Brígida Baltar, Andy Goldsworthy e Carlos Vergara pelas poéticas. A análise da pesquisa caracterizou-se por um levantamento das principais características das obras escolhidas, as analogias estabelecidas entre a proximidade e as singularidades da poética de cada artista/obra analisadas com o meio ambiente. Considero que a crise ambiental pela qual passa o planeta pede uma nova postura dos artistas, uma necessidade de estar aberto às possibilidades de um fazer artístico junto ao meio ambiente natural, um fazer crítico, consoante com os novos tempos, reafirmando-se na função social da arte.
This is a study on the development and practice of art focused on environmental issues, whose object of art may be the environment itself, through actions or interventions in public or private spaces, construction of art objects using unconventional materials, including proposals of focus or critical environmental issues. The research established to invest in a survey of artists whose poetic engages with the environment, as an exercise in art criticism. I chose the artists Brígida Baltar, Andy Goldsworthy and Carlos Vergara by poetic. The research analysis was characterized by a survey of the main characteristics of the chosen works, the analogies made between the proximity of the poetic and the singularities of each artist / work analyzed with the environment. I believe that the environmental crisis in which the planet is a new approach calls for artists, one need to be open to the possibilities of an artwork with the natural environment, to do with a criticism way, according to the new times, reinforcing its position in the function social of art.

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Neto, Bruno Pedro Giovannetti. "Graffiti: do subversivo ao consagrado." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-11012012-152024/.

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Nas duas últimas décadas, o graffiti se impôs como um elemento visual das metrópoles brasileiras. Passou a povoar a rotina urbana e, num embate por espaços, vem disputando a visibilidade pública com as cores dos edifícios, as placas de sinalização e outros elementos da comunicabilidade urbana. E o faz mudando a sua proposta e original essência. Este trabalho procura documentar a trajetória do graffitti de meados da década de 1960 até às vésperas da conclusão da pesquisa, em 2011, acompanhando a sua transformação \"do subversivo ao consagrado\". Através da narrativa visual pontuada por uma seleção de 400 fotografias de autoria do pesquisador, destaca-se, em especial, a cidade de São Paulo, onde o trabalho dos grafiteiros vem despertando interesse mundial e não apenas entre adeptos, simpatizantes e editoras especializadas. O graffiti tem sido um interessante campo de estudo para críticos de arte, antropólogos, semiólogos, etc., porém, é na visualidade urbana que tem o maior impacto.
In the last two decades, graffiti has established itself as a visual element of the metropolis in Brazil. It became part of the urban routine, and in a dispute for space has been struggling for public visibility with building colors, traffic signs and other elements of urban communicability. And it does so by changing its intent and original essence. This paper seeks to document the trajectory of graffiti from the mid 1960s to the conclusion of the research, in 2011, following its transformation \"from subversive to acclaimed\". By means of a visual narrative marked by a selection of 400 photographs taken by the researcher, the city of São Paulo is emphasized, where graffiti is attracting worldwide attention and not only among supporters, sympathizers and specialized publishers. Graffiti has been an interesting field of study for art critics, anthropologists, semiologists, and scholars in general, but the greatest impact of this street art is on the urban scene.

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Curtis, Harriet. "Ketchup and blood : documents, institutions and effects in the performances of Paul McCarthy 1974-2013." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7979.

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Since the 1970s, the work of Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) has included live performance, video, sculpture, kinetic tableaux, and installation. Tracing the development of McCarthy’s work between 1974 and 2013, I undertake a critical discussion of the development of performance in relation to visual art practices. Using one artist’s work as a guide through a number of key discussions in the history of performance art, I argue that performance has influenced every aspect of McCarthy’s artistic practice, and continues to inform critical readings of his work. My thesis follows the trajectory of McCarthy’s performance practice as it has developed through different contexts. I begin with the early documentation and dissemination of performance in the Los Angeles-based magazine High Performance (1978-83), which established a context for the reception of performance art, and for McCarthy’s early work. I then examine specific examples of McCarthy’s practice in relation to his critical reception: live performances and videos from the 1970s are discussed alongside critical readings of his work influenced by psychoanalysis; and the wider public recognition of McCarthy’s object-based art in the 1980s and early 1990s. I then look more broadly at the recent trend of re-enacting historical performances in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time project (2011-12), as a mode of engaging with performance history and exploring how histories of ephemeral art are re-iterated over time. Finally, I discuss a number of McCarthy’s recent exhibitions and installations that mobilises a wider consideration of the histories of performance and ephemeral practices in art institutions. McCarthy’s work is firmly established in the art world, and I argue that his work also provides a significant touchstone for histories of performance. I look historically at how McCarthy’s work has been documented, disseminated, curated, and re-performed, and open wider discussions about ways of engaging with performance history. In turn, I complicate the relationship between performance and the art world; between ephemeral art and object-based art practices; and between scholarly engagements with performance history, and the public presentation of performance in curatorial practices and institutional contexts.

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Papadopoulos, Theokritos. "The aesthetics of waste : investigating the role of the ephemeral in the development of the avant-garde in Western Europe and Greece and its relationship to trauma." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2013. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/6470/.

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This research project, driven by my on-going practice, seeks to identify the role of non-traditional materials such as ephemera, debris, waste and historical archive footage in order to produce art installations for investigating trauma, especially in moments of social crisis. My art practice is informed by Sigmund Freud’s notion of the ‘death drive’ in his book Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Freud’s story about his grandson’s fort-da game provided the context in my research for examining the use of ephemeral everyday materials and historical archive footage within this psychoanalytical interpretation. Freud’s concept of the death drive provided my enquiry with a reflective methodology for addressing my own installation practice. I was able to combine this with reflection upon traumatic situations in Greek history, especially the Greek Civil War. As a result of completing the above procedure, I realised the importance of everyday ephemeral materials and archive footage in the creation of an object or installation to which artists attach their subjectivity in moments when society is in crisis. In my own installations using historical archives from Greek Civil War, through the method of cut and paste, I have tried to create new images reusing photographic archives laden with historical, social and political meaning. This action was my subjective way to deal with collective trauma and loss, to create my own version of Freud’s fort-da game by turning installations into a theatrical space in which this action was presented and communicated with the viewers. In addressing research through practice, connections between trauma, the use of heterogeneous materials and the development of the avant-garde movement, particularly in Greece, have become paramount. Despite the research undertaken by Greek academics on the Greek Civil War (1944–1949), little is known about the importance of this period in relation to the development of avant-garde in Greece. My research concludes that the study of the history of the Greek avant-garde provides a new understanding of the development of collage, assemblage and the use of found objects after the Second World War by Greek artists. During my investigation, I realised that these techniques were first used by exiled artists in 1948 during the Greek Civil War, and later developed in the mid-1950s by Greek artists to become one of their main methods of producing art. During this period, Greek artists began to produce works that reflected a fragmentary vision in contrast to the hitherto classic aesthetics of the whole. Ostensibly, this was a reflection of the impossibility of a whole that war had created; the relationship of the individual within society had crumbled as civil war raged and society’s values, which had been based on the Orthodox Christian tradition, disintegrated. The use of found objects by Greek artists during this period expressed transgression as a way to deal with the main concerns of Greek culture.

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Buzz, Lu La. "The states and status of clay : material, metamorphic and metaphorical values." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11639.

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This doctoral project combines a performance-led practice with contextual research in order to demonstrate how arts practice can challenge historical perceptions of clay and enhance its material status. The core knowledge deduced from this research is that embodied performance transforms connectivity between artist and clay and produces a unified incarnation of both elements. Through the use of immersive research methods I gained insights which could not have been predicted - particularly that my experiential performances were a process of ‘clay becoming’ in which I ultimately became the clay. In terms of locality, the practice, comprising eight performance-led works and related documentation, focuses on the China Clay and Ball Clay of South West England. Traditionally in the arts, these materials are associated with ceramics, where through heating, clay becomes rigid and fixed. In contrast, my research investigates the textural fluidity and metamorphic potential of these clays in their raw state. The practice encompasses two interrelated groups of work; the In-breath and Out-breath. These terms are significant in three respects. Firstly they define two different modes and moments of practice. Secondly they refer to myself as a living component of these practices. Thirdly they reflect the cultural associations of clay as a metaphor for life. During the initial exploratory ‘In-breath’ phase of my practice, comprising four site-specific pieces, I engaged with clay at sites of historical relevance, building an expansive knowledge of my material. During the later ‘Out-breath’ phase, identification with site was relinquished. These works took place within neutral spaces, allowing the clay to be explored in relation to my body. The introduction of layering, where photographic elements of private clay rituals were situated within the context of a live performance, allowed a texturally dynamic and immersive experience to be created for both artist and viewer. By collecting and preserving clay traces from these live performances (e.g. foot and body prints) additional value was given to the embedded significance of the clay.

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Masley, Jennifer Irene. "Transitory Ephemera." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619444631965175.

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Geurts, James, and james@jamesgeurts com. "BLUE-PRINT: Human/Hydrokinetic Drawing Projects." RMIT University. Art, 2010. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20100326.114926.

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Blue-Print: Human/Hydrokinetic Drawing Projects, is based on an expanded field of drawing practice, centering on a series of spatial and time-based projects at various bodies of water around the world. Blue-Print drawing projects set out to describe a language that articulates a human/hydrokinetic relationship. This expanded drawing practice emerges through diverse forms of installation, video, land-art, kinetic sculpture, light works, sensor-drawing, photography, living-monochromes, sound, durational events and research. This expanded drawing practice is based on an inquiry into the relationships between land/place and thought/movement. It addresses the processes through which landscape, and its forms, are internalised in conceptual space, and the ways in which conceptual frameworks are projected outwards onto the landscape. The work is informed by, and contributes to, the paradigms of eco-poetics and psychogeography. Both of these paradigms engage with the relationships between the physical world and the human experience of space and time. Combining the two through my practice creates a view of the environment and the human as two interdependent circulatory systems. Bodies of water/weather cycles/conceptual systems/the human as a water-body, these are subjects in my work as much as the sense of circulation comes through methodologically and aesthetically in the actual making and form of my expanded drawings. This approach to art practice uses process in a particular way, that is as a primary means of making an artwork, although it could be said that such an approach is also an anti-method in as much as the 'method' is variable - it is continually invented given the situation/circumstances. What is consistent is a dynamic of proliferation; the work spreads out in different directions and in unpredictable ways. Here process is not for 'outcome' but is the work itself. My overall practice has taken drawing as the base from which to work. My works are combinational and connective. They are based on a type of research that is deliberate, intense and composite, and which activates the spaces of transformation that exist in the movement between landscape and thought, the circulation between environment and human. This investigation uses human engagement with moving bodies of water to generate drawings in a variety of ways, according to the specifics of each hydrokinetic system. This interest in human/hydrokinetic relationships stems from my experiences as a surfer and surfing is one of the means with which I create drawing works within this investigation. I am interested in the unique and dynamic complexity of hydrokinetics in each of the chosen locations and how this complexity of movement influences the drawing/ recording process. I am interested in generating real-time drawing works from the particular intersection of: place; time; human/hydrokinetic activity; ecological forces at work and the specific ways in which these variables all affect the resultant form of abstraction. Further to this I am interested in exploring the capacity of abstraction to access, and refer to, psychological space more readily than naturalistic renderings of the landscape.

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Siegel, Isabella. "Att dokumentera förgänglighet för all framtid : En komparativ studie av påverkan på det efemära konstverket vid dokumentering och arkivering." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Konstvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-45291.

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This study investigates effects on the ephemeral artwork and its ephemeral quality when documented and archived. To define the ephemeral artform a definition presented by Mary O’Neill in her thesis Ephemeral Art: Mourning and Loss (2007) is used, and two ephemeral artworks are studied: Zoe Leonards Strange Fruit (for David) (1992-1997) and Felix Gonzalez-Torres ”Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) (1991). Results from these case studies are compared to each other and to Peggy Phelan’s critical stance on the possibilities of documenting time-based and performative artforms in Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993). Results show that the ephemeral artwork becomes ephemeral through slow degradation and the experience this degradation generates in the observer; processes in time that cannot be documented. However, documentation can affect the observer’s experience of ”here and now,” which may alter the artwork’s communicative abilities and its effectiveness in creating a sense of presence within the passing of time.
Denna studie studerar påverkan på det efemära konstverket och dess efemära egenskap när det dokumenteras och arkiveras. För att definiera den efemära konstformen används en definition som presenteras av Mary O’Neill i avhandlingen Ephemeral Art: Mourning and Loss (2007), och två efemära konstverk studeras: Zoe Leonards Strange Fruit (for David) (1992–1997) och Felix Gonzalez-Torres ”Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) (1991). Resultat från verkanalyser av dessa verk jämförs mot varandra samt mot Peggy Phelans uppfattning att performance-baserad konst inte kan dokumenteras i Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993). Resultat visar att det efemära konstverket blir efemärt genom sin långsamma nedbrytning och genom betraktarens upplevelse av denna nedbrytning – temporala processer som inte kan dokumenteras med exakthet. Dokumentering kan dock innebära att betraktarens upplevelse av ”här och nu” påverkas och således verkets förmåga att kommunicera effektivt om passerande tid och frambringa närvaro i nuet.

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Pérez-Rementería, Dinorah. "Osvaldo Sánchez's Art Criticism: An Aesthetics of Reconciliation." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/16.

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Aesthetic criticism very often has been overlooked and considered a lesser form. However, many interpretations, applications and discernments can be obtained from this kind of art writing. Using Osvaldo Sánchez's work as a case study, this thesis examines how writerly art criticism offers an active reading framework of the work of art by using philosophical, literary and poetic constructions. In this regard, I will see how the "writerly" condition has contributed compelling insights to the History of Aesthetics, highlighting the connections and disconnections between Sánchez and other writerly critics, which demonstrates the significance of developing a flexible, available and aesthetic learning model of art appreciation. I will analyze as well various models of experience, subjective and objective, that release certain "openness" as a premise for their existences. Here are included the Kantian sublime, Heidegger's ontological Being, the surrealist cultivation of chance, Kaprow's happenings, and the attitude of disinterest developed by the vanishing poets as defended by the scholar Rafael Hernández Rodríguez. I will show that, by choosing an accommodating approach to discover forms of knowledge, an assortment of valuable empirical content can be found. Finally, I investigate the writerly work of Cuban critic Osvaldo Sánchez that does not adopt a fixed critical pattern. Instead, Sánchez's art writing passes through fields, providing us with a heuristic methodology in which the aesthetic emerges not as a preconditioned set of principles/procedures, but as a true lived experience.

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Haynes, Rachael Anne. "Embodied vulnerabilities : responding to violent encounters through installation practices." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/27663/1/Rachael_Haynes_Thesis.pdf.

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This practice-led research was initiated in response to a series of violent encounters that occurred between my fragile installations and viewers. The central focus of this study was to recuperate my installation practice in the wake of such events. This led to the development of a ‘responsive practice’ methodology, which reframed the installation process through an ethical lens developed from Emmanuel Levinas’ ethical phenomenology. The central propositions of this research are the reconceptualisation of ‘violent encounters’ in terms of difference whereby I accept viewers responses, even those which are violent, destructive or damaging, and secondly that the process operates as a generative excess for practice through which recuperative strategies can be found and implemented. By re-examining this process as it unfolded in the three phases of the practical component, I developed strategies whereby violated, destroyed or damaged works could be recuperated through the processes of reconfiguration, reparation and regeneration. Therefore my installations embody and articulate vulnerability but also demonstrate resilience and renewal.

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Haynes, Rachael Anne. "Embodied vulnerabilities : responding to violent encounters through installation practices." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/27663/.

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This practice-led research was initiated in response to a series of violent encounters that occurred between my fragile installations and viewers. The central focus of this study was to recuperate my installation practice in the wake of such events. This led to the development of a ‘responsive practice’ methodology, which reframed the installation process through an ethical lens developed from Emmanuel Levinas’ ethical phenomenology. The central propositions of this research are the reconceptualisation of ‘violent encounters’ in terms of difference whereby I accept viewers responses, even those which are violent, destructive or damaging, and secondly that the process operates as a generative excess for practice through which recuperative strategies can be found and implemented. By re-examining this process as it unfolded in the three phases of the practical component, I developed strategies whereby violated, destroyed or damaged works could be recuperated through the processes of reconfiguration, reparation and regeneration. Therefore my installations embody and articulate vulnerability but also demonstrate resilience and renewal.

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Chapman, Gaye. "Decompose : decay + weeds = beauty : research into the visual art/painting implications of botanical biodegradation of weeds as an expression of I. The subjective, expansive and ephemeral nature of art, artist and materials. II. An incarnation of the nature of time and sublime beauty that articulates and expands perceptions of art, artist and materials as text + paintings /." View thesis, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29745.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2004.
A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, School of Contemporary Arts, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Contemporary Arts. Includes bibliographies. Electronic version minus appendices 2, 3, 4 is also available online at: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29745.

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Lucas, Isabel Jesus Basilio. "A Land Art como recurso pedagógico: a Land Art como recurso pedagógico para que os alunos adquiram competências a nível da gramática visual." Master's thesis, Escola Superior de Educação, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/6131.

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Chapman, Gaye. "Decompose : decay + weeds = beauty : research into the visual art/painting implications of botanical biodegradation of weeds as an expression of I. The subjective, expansive and ephemeral nature of art, artist and materials. II. An incarnation of the nature of time and sublime beauty that articulates and expands perceptions of art, artist and materials as text + paintings." Thesis, View thesis, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29745.

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“In the decomposition of organic/botanic materiality, decayed and decaying exotic weeds are printed and imprinted on the host vessel: The surviving trace becomes a code - a sign - a semiotic map = disjecta membra: being there ... then destroyed... but still remaining.” THE BODY OF VISUAL AND WRITTEN RESEARCH, 'DECOMPOSE', is a cross-disciplinary interrogation, interpreting overlapping meanings in the Botanical Biodegradation of Weeds through Visual Art/Science practices and processes expressed as Text +Paintings. DECOMPOSE validates the Act of Art, Botanical Biodegradation of Weeds, as both: I. An expression of the Subjective, Expansive and Ephemeral nature of Art, Artist and Materials and II. An incarnation of the nature of Time and Sublime Beauty, that articulates, and expands perceptions of Art, Artist and Materials as Text + Paintings. The 'equation': DECAY + WEEDS = BEAUTY expands to encompass key elements in the DECOMPOSE body of research: BOTANICAL BIODEGRADATION + AUSTRALIAN EXOTIC, FERAL and NOXIOUS WEED SPECIES + ARTIST + MATERIALS + ART + SCIENCE + TIME = DECAY-PAINTINGS = RESEARCH = SUBLIME BEAUTY Argued by quantitative and qualitative example, DECOMPOSE is at once: I. Subjective: a conceptual and translative process expressed through the personal vision of the artist. II. Expansive: an interrogation of a single process, at once finite and infinite in meanings and extractions. III. Ephemeral: investigations and results signifying the specific and universal decay of all things.

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Périot-Bled, Gaëlle. "Des œuvres éphémères devenues mémorables : modalités et enjeux d’une transmission fragile." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080107.

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Ce travail de recherche part de la description d’événements artistiquescontemporains, réexposant ou rejouant des oeuvres éphémères du passé, afin d’analyser lesmodalités de leur transmission. Dans un premier moment, il s’agit de montrer que l’éphémèreopère une réduction temporelle qui met en crise une conception de l’oeuvre que la tradition desarts plastiques a fondée sur la conservation de l’objet et de la trace. Or, lorsque les oeuvreséphémères nous sont données a posteriori, dans le corps du vestige ou de l’archive, la questionest de savoir si leur reconnaissance par l’institution ne coïncide pas avec l’inexorable perte deleur discours. Dans son second moment, ce travail cherche à mettre en évidence une modalitéessentielle de la transmission que les oeuvres éphémères ont contribué à inscrire dans lespratiques : une forme de théâtralité dont les signes manifestes sont la requalification du muséecomme scène et du commissaire comme scénographe et metteur en scène. Plus profondément,cette modalité révèle un nouvel ethos né de la relation fragile entre l’oeuvre et des spectateursdevenus témoins. Car le devenir des oeuvres éphémères se fonde sur la conversion d’uneémotion mémorable en devoir de transmettre. C’est à la mise au jour de cette opération que cetravail doctoral se consacre finalement, pour montrer comment le devenir mémorable engagetoujours un sens de la communauté humaine
This research work starts from the description of contemporary artistic events, reexposingor replaying ephemeral mankind's past achievements, in order to analyse the modalitiesof their transmission. In a first moment, it is intended to show that the ephemeral carries out atime-based reduction that puts in crisis a conception of the work of art that the tradition of thevisual arts has founded on object and trace conservation. However, when ephemeral worksreach us a posteriori, in the frame of the vestige or archive material, the question is to know iftheir recognition by the institution does not coincide with the inexorable loss of their speech.In its second moment, this work seeks to highlight a key modality for transmission thatephemeral works have contributed to graft onto established practices : a type of theatricalpresence the obvious signs of which being the requalification of the museum as a stage and ofthe curator as a set designer and stage manager. At a deeper level, this modality reveals a newethos arising out of the fragile relationship between the work and spectators having becomewitnesses. For, the destiny of ephemeral works is based on the conversion of an unforgettableemotion into a duty of transmission. It is with the updating of this operation that this doctoralwork is ultimately devoted to, to show how the memorable becoming always engages a sense of thehuman community

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Ortiz, García José A. "Art, devoció i ritual funeraris a la Catalunya moderna." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/353619.

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Parlar de mort és parlar de les pors inherents a l'esser humà. Diferents son les disciplines que ens permeten aproximar-nos al final de la vida a partir d'una perspectiva cultural. Qüestions històriques, artístiques, religioses, antropològiques i sociològiques, entre d'altres, s'imbriquen entre elles per aportar-nos una mirada sobre el concepte de la mort. Radica en aquesta relació interdisciplinària la tesi doctoral titulada Art, devoció i ritual funeraris a la Catalunya moderna. El títol de la recerca planteja en ell mateix els conceptes que la vertebren. La mort és l'element d'estudi a través de l'art, les devocions i els rituals que la poden definir. Aquesta aproximació cultural havia d'incloure disciplines associades que aporten les vies interpretatives complementàries en el moment d'abordar aquest paradigma de mort, art, devoció i ritual. El marc cronològic té com a punt de partida les tesis tridentines que ens situen vers la meitat del segle XVI. L’any 1775, l’obertura del cementiri de Poblenou, és la data vers la qual es tanca la recerca. A nivell geogràfic, el focus principal és Barcelona, ampliant la investigació vers altres zones de l’àrea catalana. Mostres internacionals i hispàniques s’han tingut en compte per presentar una millor lectura del corpus d’obres que conformen la tesi. L’estructura de la tesi en tres apartats, «La mort escrita», «La mort ritualitzada», i la «La mort imaginada», ofereix una panoràmica àmplia sobre aspectes literaris, rituals i artístics, que aborden el conjunt d’obres analitzades. El primer apartat, «La mort escrita», versa sobre la presència literària de la mort. L’anàlisi de les fonts escrites ens permet una aproximació cultural que fa esment de les principals mostres conservades dels literats i dels gèneres associats a la mort. Noms propis com serien els de Francesc Vicent Garcia, Francesc Fontanella o Agustí Eura, ens donen accés a les composicions poètiques de caràcter escatològic que es posen en relació amb altres fórmules com les ars moriendi i els llibres de viatge a l’Infern i al Purgatori. Així mateix, es fa atenció a les relacions de successos i als sermons per obtenir noves vies d’estudi del fet funerari a través de les lletres escrites, sense oblidar el patrimoni documental dels arxius que completen aquesta part de la recerca doctoral. El segon apartat, «La mort ritualitzada», ens apropa al cerimonial funerari. Analitzem el ritual de la mort fent ús de fonts variades que ens ofereixen la sistematització del final de la vida segons les doctrines eclesiàstiques. Aquest punt de partida teològic i litúrgic ens permet fer una derivació vers les iconografies associades que amb les creacions artístiques presenten les devocions, ja siguin tradicionals o noves, junt les formes de dol que vertebren la relació entre art i ritual. El tercer, i darrer apartat, «La mort imaginada», condensa en els seus cinc capítols la recerca sobre l’art davant del fet de morir. En ell s’estudia un corpus d’obres ampli que ens permet trobar les relacions entre art, devoció i ritual que planteja la tesi doctoral. Analitzant pintura, escultura, gravat, arts de l’objecte, literatura, i altres creacions de la mà de l’home, s’estableix un recorregut per les imatges de la mort a Catalunya, atenent a la representació dels cossos morts i a l’imaginari del Purgatori; pel concepte de vanitas o per les mostres de l’arquitectura efímera, amb les exèquies i cerimònies funeràries, i de les sepultures com a espais d’enterrament. El darrer capítol ens porta a la reflexió sobre altres presències de la mort amb la veneració de cossos sants i de relíquies d’efecte taumatúrgic.
This work is focused on the study of death representation in Barcelona and the Catalan territories along modern ages, XVIth and XVIIIth centuries. Death concept is such a complicated topic when we try to afford it from cultural studies. This thesis, Funeral art, ritual and devotion in Catalonia during the modern period, is presented not only as an study of historical and artistic meaning, but provides both anthropological and theological interpretations around some different kind of works of art, including paintings, sculptures, etchings, textiles, literature and ephemeral celebrations. The research is an iconographic approach according to the different representations of death in art: the macabre, the vanities, the royal power link to the burial places, the purgatory, among others subjects. The structure of this research is made following three main parts, «The written Death», «The ritualized Death» and «The imaged Death», a cultural view paying attention to literary, religious and artistic ideas around the death concept. Finally this work unveils new information coming from archives, museums and historical libraries and gets enriched of some artistic pieces related to their use and their specific funerary iconographies. To sum up, this research tries to open new fields of study about this topic that belongs to the humankind.

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Méndez, Barrios Judith Lorena. "Dilatando el efímero. Intervención performativa y pedagógica radical: El caso de Lleca en México." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145762.

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La acción cultural tiende a la performance, pues se afirma como una acción estética de formación compleja. En ella coexisten percepciones y bienes estéticos tangibles, los cuerpos, e intangibles, las emociones. La experiencia personal y grupal de formación adquiere sentido en las prácticas culturales e implica una revisión de las ideas de arte. Si mi educación personal involucró una didáctica del arte y una educación más amplia, formal e informal, el trabajo de grupo con el colectivo de intervención cultural y artística La Lleca se adscribe, más bien, a la militancia cultural feminista en ambiente mixto. La acción cultural es una práctica de humanización y desjerarquización de los roles sociales, básicamente performativa. La performance en La Lleca devela la experiencia personal y, por ende política, en el tiempo para lograr la liberación de las personas en ambientes de reclusión. La educación feminista de La Lleca la retoma como una práctica dilatada en el tiempo, instaurando una pedagogía radical de los afectos. Ésta se entiende como una acción educativa, que por su propio proceso es continua. Las relaciones interpersonales se reconstruyen en la manifestación de la afectividad y en la práctica de la pasión creativa como método de liberación. Para realizar sus acciones culturales, La Lleca utiliza los aportes feministas a la cultura del cuerpo autónomo y sostiene una posición educativa radical con la urgencia de-generar el amor. Sus acciones proponen una afectividad solidaria, bisexual, sin posesión. El pensar juntos y la acción colectiva son los dos momentos que propician el inicio de la acción cultural. El compromiso alimenta la intervención y concientiza la práctica. Como la vida, la acción cultural se adapta y transforma, se recompone y cambia en la finalidad de un bien entendido como liberación. 2 La narración de las vidas de las personas con quien se realiza toda acción cultural es una parte importante de la intervención. La narración devela el conocimiento al tiempo que lo construye, pues estructura la experiencia y le da forma a su sentido. La narración que se explicita en la historia de vida escuchada y en la autobiografía de artista se complementan, generando una crítica de los horizontes carcelarios y los discursos que los soportan.
Cultural action turns to performance to affirm itself as a complex aesthetic formation. Perception and aesthetic goods coexist within the performative, both concrete in form like bodies and nonconcrete Iike emotions. Personal and group educational experiences acquire their meaning in cultural practices and this implies a revision of our ideas about art. If my own education has involved pedagogy of art as well as an extended education, both formal and informal, my work in the cultural and artistic intervention collective La Lleca adds up to, we might say, to a cultural feminist militancy in a mixed environment. Cultural action is a humanizing activity and a practice that goes against a hierarchical order of social roles, which is basically performative. In La Lleca performance reveals personal and political experience, during the time it takes to achieve the liberation of incarcerated individuals. Feminist education in La Lleca takes up performance as an expanded practice in time, establishing a radical education of affect. We understand this as an educational action which, following its own process, is continuous. The interpersonal relationships constructed in the project are a manifestation of affect and the practice of creative passion as a liberatory method. To develop its cultural actions, La Lleca utilizes feminist approaches to bodily and personal autonomy and sustains a radical educative position combined with an urgency of "de-generating" love. The group's actions propose an affective, non-normative solidarity, one beyond possession. The process of thinking-in-common and collective action are the two moments that propitiate the beginning of cultural actions in La Lleca. These commitments feed the intervention and construct an ethics of the practice. Like life, the cultural action adapts and transforms itself, it recomposes and changes the aims of what we understand as liberation. The narrative ofthe lives ofthe people with which every cultural action takes place is an important part of the intervention. These narratives disclose knowledge at the same time they constructs it, since narration both structures the experience and gives form to its meaning. The narrative revealed in oral life histories and the autobiography of the artist become complementary, generating a critique of the prison system's horizons and the discourses that support it.

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Stillwell, Joana. "a window the color of her sunburn." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4821.

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I use video and material fragments to investigate the collapse of virtual and physical spaces as memories, lived environments, and digital interfaces become overlaid and interchangeable. I am interested in the capacity for technology to propose alternative strategies in which to engage with the world as we continue to extend ourselves in new and enduring methods. Seemingly unremarkable fragments offer new potentials in questioning meaning, worth, and care within spaces of downtime, boredom, and play. This document accompanies my thesis exhibition a window the color of her sunburn. It provides background information on selected fragments and residues from my own life alongside philosophical and art historical research, which informs my exhibition.

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Sehn, Magali Melleu. "A preservação de \'instalações de arte\' com ênfase no contexto brasileiro: discussões teóricas e metodológicas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27159/tde-21062010-100207/.

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A abordagem das principais discussões éticas e metodológicas no âmbito da preservação da arte contemporânea constitui o ponto de partida desta tese. O recorte procurou enfatizar a problemática da preservação de algumas modalidades artísticas denominadas atualmente de instalações de arte, evidenciando a produção artística brasileira a partir da década de 80. Tomando como referência o estudo de cinco obras de artistas vivos que, em sua maioria, ainda não estão inseridas no contexto institucional, analisa-se a relevância do registro das intenções desses artistas quanto à preservação, bem como o papel do conservador/restaurador e da comunidade artística.
Tackling the major methodological and ethical issues in the preservation of contemporary art is the starting point for this thesis. The cutting sought to emphasize the issue of preservation of some artistic modalities, currently called art installations, showing the Brazilian artistic production from the 80s. Compared to the study of five works of living artists and, mostly, not yet included in the institutional context, the relevance of the intention records of these artists is examined in terms of the preservation of their works, the role of the conservator-restorer and the artistic community.

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Asalia, Nour. "La fragilité dans la sculpture contemporaine : réflexions théoriques et expérimentations artistiques à partir de Marcel Duchamp et Pablo Picasso." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA080076.

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La fragilité est une notion importante dans la sculpture contemporaine. Cette thèse s’interroge sur ses aspects chez deux des plus influents artistes de l'histoire de l'art au XXe siècle : Pablo Picasso et Marcel Duchamp. Nous nous interrogeons dans ce sens sur les facteurs qui ont favorisé l’avènement de la fragilité dans leurs pratiques : contexte historique, traditions populaires revisitées par la modernité, évolution du regard porté sur les matériaux, pratiques artistiques novatrices, contraintes et techniques de conservation. Notre recherche aborde bien entendu la question de la fragilité/la vanité de l’être humain que nous traitons dans les champs historique et philosophique – à travers ses dimensions esthétique, philosophique et spirituelle – mais dans les champs du sacré et de la science à partir du corps et de la mémoire tels que nous les observons se manifester dans le champ artistique. Pour montrer la prégnance de ce qui nous paraît relever du concept de fragilité, tel que nous l’aurons auparavant défini chez Duchamp et Picasso et des formes qu’il revêt, nous nous appuyons sur leurs œuvres en verre et papier. Notre étude analyse ces œuvres tant à travers le concept de fragilité qui s’y déploie qu’à l’aune de leur matérialité. Par ailleurs, l’usage des matériaux fragiles amène les artistes à privilégier certaines techniques qui ont pour objectif de protéger et d’assurer la conservation de leur travail : un tel processus aboutit au nouage serré, voire parfois inextricable, de leur démarche artistique et de leur pratique. Les modes de conservation de l’œuvre fragile constituent donc également l’un des axes de notre thèse. ---Pour finir, nous présentons notre propre pratique artistique, nourrie de notre approche de la fragilité et, bien sûr, de toutes les œuvres et références que nous aurons étudiées tout au long de notre recherche
Fragility is an important notion in contemporary sculpture. This thesis examines its aspects in two of the most influential artists in the history of art in the 20th century: Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. In this sense, we question the factors that have favored the advent of fragility in their practices: historical context, popular traditions revisited by modernity, changes in the way we look at materials, innovative artistic practices, constraints and conservation techniques. Our research of course addresses the question of the fragility/vanity of the human being that we deal with in the historical and philosophical fields - through its aesthetic, philosophical and spiritual dimensions - but in the fields of the sacred and of science from of body and memory as we observe them manifesting themselves in the artistic field. To show the significance of what seems to us to fall under the concept of fragility, as we have previously defined it with Duchamp and Picasso and the forms it takes, we rely on their works in glass and paper. Our study analyzes these works both through the concept of fragility that unfolds there and in terms of their materiality. Furthermore, the use of fragile materials leads artists to favor certain techniques whose objective is to protect and ensure the conservation of their work: such a process results in the tight, even sometimes inextricable knotting of their artistic approach and their practice. The modes of conservation of the fragile work therefore also constitute one of the axes of our thesis. ___Finally, we present our own artistic practice, nourished by our approach to fragility and, of course, by all the works and references that we will have studied throughout our research

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Anderson, Charles Nicholas, and charles anderson@rmit edu au. "Ephemeral Architectures: towards a process architecture." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091104.143239.

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This PhD responds to a two fold problem with the philosophy of design and the practice of design. The philosophical problem is stated as the discrepancy between a dominant philosophical framework that orders the world according to eternal essences and the actual conditions of the world in which we exist: the conditions of becoming and of flux. Commencing with a critique of the western metaphysical tradition of statics this research project proposes that we need to find a way of describing an evolutionary model of practice, and by so doing to provide a revitalised narration of process. Consequently, the PhD explores the meanings of process through a critical examination of an ensemble of projects created by the author. Within this framework, a number of questions are posed in order to explore the proposition of a process practice. These questions are: What is process? How does one think process? Indeed, how do we get to grasp change? What are the consequences of process thinking on the practices of design, their fields of operation, and their productions? And, how can the thematising of process contribute to the design of the constructed environment, as well as reconfigure the practices of design? This thematising of process is argued to involve a necessary address to the constitutive and interrelated characteristics of process: space/time, movement, change, form and matter. Such an address is also seen to problematise the status of the object, the paradigms of representation, the modes of creation, the economies of exchange, and the structures of community, and to offer a modality of practice which would re-imagine the forms of social exchange to offer an ethical alternative to the tyranny of supply and demand, and thereby reconfigure the potential for dwelling. Making an overview of the discourses and practices engaging with theories of becoming, this thesis argues that almost all of these re-inscribe statics and that consequently the practice of design seems to drag behind our understanding of the world. Through a meditation on dis/appearance, in which the dynamics of being and becoming and the restless ambiguity of the gap are examined, the work establishes a process vocabulary, and makes clear through a material practice, the domains of process thinking, its inclinations, and the kinds of operations and procedures that flourish there. Foregrounding the fertile character of process practice, the PhD then proceeds to introduce notions of the movement-form, the duration-form, the transformational-form, the geometry of encounter, and to argue for physical form as an in-movement poise. Advocating new modes of approach and of attentiveness, and demonstrating new generative methods, this PhD argues that process thinking is not simply an operational stance, but an ethical position that identifies a field of care, and that consequently the design practices be expanded by taking seriously the relationship between process thinking and place making. Thus, this thesis concludes by advocating a mode of place making which, rather than reproduce planned environments as systems of control, configures place as the discursive contested place of encounter and exchange.

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Puydebois, Maryline. "Proto-matériau végétal et utopies spatio-temporelles : oeuvres végétales contemporaines et pratiques personnelles." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0524.

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Il s’agit de s’interroger à partir de notre pratique plastique qui s’intègre dans l’Art Végétal, sur le statut, la fonction et le processus créateur du proto-matériau végétal dans les œuvres contemporaines. Ce travail analyse la capacité du déchet, d’une épluchure de fruit ou de légume à convoquer certains savoir-faire, procédés techniques s’intégrant dans un proto-langage artistique. Ce principe créateur végétal interroge de manière paradoxale la notion de conservation créatrice à partir de matériaux ordinaires et éphémères. Ces dispositifs de préservation de fragments végétaux créent un espace olfactif, tactile et visuel qui rend hommage à la nature précaire. La mobilité d’un espace utopique spatio-temporel se fonde sur la fragmentation de téguments qui constituent la base de structures architecturales nourries d’une double pensée : occidentale et extrême orientale. Mes œuvres interrogent l’éthique écologique d’un contexte occidental de surconsommation par la fragilité de fragments de vanité
It is a question of our plastic practice, which integrates with the plant Art, on the status, function and creative process of the proto-material in contemporary works. This work analyses the capacity of waste, a fruit or vegetable peel to summon certain know-how, technical processes integrating into an artistic proto-language.This plant-creative principle paradoxically questions the notion of creative conservation from ordinary and ephemeral materials. These devices for preserving plant fragments create an olfactory, tactile and visual space that pays homage to the precarious nature.The mobility of a spatial-temporal utopian space is based on the fragmentation of integuments which form the basis of architectural structures nourished by a twofold thought: Western and Far Eastern. My works question the ecological ethic of a Western context of overconsumption by the fragility of vanity fragments

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Hoffman, Jeffrey. "A Crack in Everything." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5305.

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Contained herein is a close examination of self-awareness and self-portraiture as it applies to the works of artist Jeffrey Hoffman. Water, frozen into various forms and combined with natural elements of wood, slowly melt over an indeterminable amount of time, each droplet documented as the process transforms the elements. Through this process, we see change. We see time. We see truth. This documentation of change and time through natural elements is where the artwork comes full circle. Working with new media to explore man's interconnectivity to life, energy, and the cosmos, he produces time based installations, photographs, videos, and sculptures that serve as both existential metaphors and Tantric symbols. With the use of digital cameras and video, a record is created by which the disintegration which occurs from the unseen forces of gravity, heat and time upon sculptures made from natural elements and ice is examined. In its sculptural form, his work can be categorized as Installation art and Performance art due to its evolving nature. Each piece is intended to either change over time or to have that change halted by another temporal force like that of flowing electricity. The possibility of allowing varying levels of self-awareness to emerge through self portraiture is also examined. The existential, as well as the metaphysical, can be present in a physical form when the form is imbued with evidence of an evolutionary process. In many ways, the work serves as a self portrait. It is a means for Hoffman to examine his own existentialism as a student of the modern western world and life.
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Visual Arts and Design
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Emerging Media; Studio Art and the Computer

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Shepard, Nathan Lindstrom. "Everlasting ephemera: temporary festival structures and Bernini's Fountain of the four rivers." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3535.

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An exploration of the various ephemeral sources of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers. This thesis brings together other authors' observations of Baroque ephemera. Additional sources are proposed by the author to create a more complete discussion of the fountain and its relationship with Baroque ephemera.

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BARBIERI, FRANCESCA. "Spettacolarità e scenografia a Milano tra età teresiana e giuseppina." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1350.

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Nella seconda metà del Settecento Milano diventò un centro di riferimento per la scenografia a livello internazionale. La tesi studia l’evoluzione della spettacolarità e della scenografia in un periodo cruciale per la città (1765-1792) prendendo in esame non solo il teatro, ma anche gli aspetti connessi agli eventi festivi legati al potere. La ricerca è basata primariamente sulle fonti iconografiche, soprattutto disegni e incisioni, reperite negli archivi milanesi e nazionali; l’analisi di libretti, relazioni, periodici e altra documentazione ha inoltre offerto altri elementi utili alla delineazione dello scenario culturale di riferimento. In primo luogo, si prendono in esame eventi dinastici, quali i festeggiamenti nuziali, i passaggi e gli ingressi dei sovrani, le feste per nascita e le esequie. Sono inoltre considerati gli sviluppi della scenografia milanese prima al Regio Ducal Teatro e poi al Teatro alla Scala, con particolare riguardo all’opera di personalità di primo piano come i fratelli Galliari e Pietro Gonzaga. Ne emerge un quadro complesso che aspira a ricostruire la trama di rapporti che legano la scenografia all’universo della rappresentazione nella Milano del XVIII secolo.
In the second half of the 18th century Milan became a very influent centre for the art of stage designing. This PhD thesis seeks to investigate the developments of the visual aspects of theatricality in a crucial period (1765-1792) for Milan. This study is based on iconographic sources, namely engravings and drawings. The analysis focuses on public and political events (wedding festivals, state funerals and royal entries) and, at the same time, on theatre. The research considers the development of stage design at the Regio Ducal Teatro and the Teatro alla Scala. It concentrates on the works of the most important scene-painters of the period: the brothers Fabrizio and Bernardino Galliari and Pietro Gonzaga. As a result, the study provides an analysis of the several components of visual representation and their features.

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BARBIERI, FRANCESCA. "Spettacolarità e scenografia a Milano tra età teresiana e giuseppina." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1350.

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Nella seconda metà del Settecento Milano diventò un centro di riferimento per la scenografia a livello internazionale. La tesi studia l’evoluzione della spettacolarità e della scenografia in un periodo cruciale per la città (1765-1792) prendendo in esame non solo il teatro, ma anche gli aspetti connessi agli eventi festivi legati al potere. La ricerca è basata primariamente sulle fonti iconografiche, soprattutto disegni e incisioni, reperite negli archivi milanesi e nazionali; l’analisi di libretti, relazioni, periodici e altra documentazione ha inoltre offerto altri elementi utili alla delineazione dello scenario culturale di riferimento. In primo luogo, si prendono in esame eventi dinastici, quali i festeggiamenti nuziali, i passaggi e gli ingressi dei sovrani, le feste per nascita e le esequie. Sono inoltre considerati gli sviluppi della scenografia milanese prima al Regio Ducal Teatro e poi al Teatro alla Scala, con particolare riguardo all’opera di personalità di primo piano come i fratelli Galliari e Pietro Gonzaga. Ne emerge un quadro complesso che aspira a ricostruire la trama di rapporti che legano la scenografia all’universo della rappresentazione nella Milano del XVIII secolo.
In the second half of the 18th century Milan became a very influent centre for the art of stage designing. This PhD thesis seeks to investigate the developments of the visual aspects of theatricality in a crucial period (1765-1792) for Milan. This study is based on iconographic sources, namely engravings and drawings. The analysis focuses on public and political events (wedding festivals, state funerals and royal entries) and, at the same time, on theatre. The research considers the development of stage design at the Regio Ducal Teatro and the Teatro alla Scala. It concentrates on the works of the most important scene-painters of the period: the brothers Fabrizio and Bernardino Galliari and Pietro Gonzaga. As a result, the study provides an analysis of the several components of visual representation and their features.

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Zofkova, Magdalena. "Evolutionary dynamics in ephemeral pools : inferences from genetic architecture of large branchiopods." University of Western Australia. School of Animal Biology, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0048.

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[Truncated abstract] I have evaluated the effects of different types of ephemeral pools on the evolutionary dynamics of two large branchiopods in Australia, the clam shrimp Lynceus and the fairy shrimp Branchinella longirostris. Both shrimps are passive dispersers, relying on their sexually produced resting eggs for continuity of populations in time and space, although their actual dispersal ability remains speculative. The two currently recognised species of the genus Lynceus (L. tatei and L. macleyanus) are widespread across Australia, and they occupy a wide range of ephemeral fresh water habitats, while the fairy shrimp Branchinella longirostris is endemic to rock pools on granite outcrops in south-western Australia. Samples of populations were collected from a total of 96 ephemeral pools at 80 locations in New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia . . . This highlighted the contrast between the two species and their microhabitats, and implied that these microhabitats offered different opportunities for dispersal. These were identified as frequent disturbances of the clam shrimp’s egg-banks due to ‘wash-out’ effects during heavy rains and animal and human vectors attracted by the water stored in the deep pools. My comparative study shows that the difference in evolutionary dynamics observed between the two species was a consequence of their environmental interactions rather than of the microhabitats themselves. Similar to patterns detected in other passive dispersers with disjunct population distribution, evolutionary dynamics in Lynceus and B. longirostris seem to be a result of complex interactions among gene flow, population histories and ecology of their habitat. The results contribute to the emerging evidence that branchiopod crustaceans are poor dispersers and highlight the importance of local context in determining evolutionary processes within species.

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Zofkova, Magdalena. "Evolutionary dynamics in ephemeral pools : inferences from genetic architecture of large branchiopods /." Connect to this title, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0048.

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Kambs, Jill Elise. "32% of the archive." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/995.

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32% of the Archive explores memory, loss, and the power of ephemera through recording and re-presenting objects from a personal archive. Through uniform recording, framing, and treatment of the art objects, 32% of the Archive, attempts to neutrally display personal objects so the audience can objectively investigate the material. The gesture falls short of impartial, though, for the specificity of the subject and the enormity of the act carries an emotional charge. Beyond presenting data, this work reflects a sincere effort to remember and preserve, to puzzle and piece together, to pay homage to what is lost in the transience of life. These re-presentations recall the concept of the indexical image. It is not the thing itself but the trace of the thing. It is not the moment itself but the conjured memory of the moment and the place and the people who inhabited it. Struggling to find the appropriate distance from these personal objects reflects the ambivalence of love, loss, and memory. But this is the true power of the photograph--to preserve and keep present that which is ephemeral.

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Ururahy, Heloisa Pinto. "Museus na internet do século XXI: a caminho do museu ubíquo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/93/93131/tde-25042014-112545/.

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A pesquisa observa as novas relações de produção e difusão da arte que surgiram com a utilização da internet e das novas tecnologias, pelas instituições culturais, para a expansão de suas atividades. A investigação propõe que essa nova forma de comunicação pode unir o alcance das plataformas virtuais, a credibilidade de grandes centros artísticos e a força dos processos colaborativos de criação em rede para ampliar a propagação da arte e da cultura. O estudo pretende mostrar como museus, galerias e instituições culturais em geral, têm desenvolvido trabalhos na world wide web, desde o começo dos anos 90, de forma a ampliar o acesso do público, não apenas a seus acervos e exposições, mas também à possibilidade de criação conjunta do conhecimento museológico e de nossa herança cultural. Através da observação dos conteúdos disponibilizados na rede por museus variados, nacionais e internacionais, relacionados a artigos sobre questões contemporâneas da museologia, são analisados como os objetivos das instituições artísticas quanto ao uso do ciberespaço têm evoluído. Há um crescente esforço em suprir as necessidades culturais dos novos espectadores da era conectada da internet. Hoje, modelos de exposições virtuais permitem que formatos de arte efêmera, como performances ou intervenções, possam efetivamente fazer parte dos espaços museológicos. Foi criada uma nova ligação com o visitante do museu, que pode estar em qualquer lugar do mundo e, utilizando redes sociais e mídias móveis, passa a ser criador e difusor de conteúdo, além de receptor. Por fim, há a reflexão sobre como, enquanto se adéquam às novas relações do homem com a arte e a cultura através do mundo virtual, as instituições devem se preocupar com a responsabilidade social e a democratização do acesso aos bens culturais por aqueles que ainda não tem contato frequente com as novas tecnologias.
The research points the new relations of production and dissemination of art that emerge with the use of the Internet and new technologies, by cultural institutions to expand their activities. The research suggests that this new form of communication can put together the reach of virtual platforms, the credibility of major artistic centers and the strength of networks for collaborative creation processes, to enlarge the propagation of art and culture. The study aims to show how museums, galleries and cultural institutions in general, have developed activities on the world wide web since the early \'90s, in order to increase public access, not only to their collections and exhibitions, but also to the possibility of joint creation of the museological knowledge and cultural heritage. How the goals of art institutions in the use of cyberspace have evolved are analyzed through observation of the content provided on the net by various museums, national and international, related with articles about issues on contemporary museology. There is a growing effort to meet the cultural needs of the new spectators of internet connected age. Nowadays, virtual exhibitions models allow ephemeral art formats, such as performances or interventions, to effectively be part of the museum spaces. A new connection was created with the museum visitor, who can be anywhere in the world and, using social networks and mobile media, becomes a creator and disseminator of content, as well as a receiver. Finally, there is the observation on how, while adapting with the man\'s new relationship with art and culture through the virtual world, institutions should concern also about social responsibility and democratic access to culture for those who do not have frequent contact with new technologies.

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Syron, Liza-Mare. "Ephemera Aboriginality, reconciliation, urban perspectives ; Artistic practice in contemporary Aboriginal theatre /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060220.155544/index.html.

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John, Jason Robert, and jason@scotschurch org au. "Biocentric Theology: Christianity celebrating humans as an ephemeral part of life, not the centre of it." Flinders University. Theology, 2005. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20051212.182616.

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When the Uniting Church formed in 1977, its Basis of Union envisaged a final reconciliation and renewal for all creation, not just humans. It did, nonetheless, reflect the anthropocentric assumptions of its day, as did other official documents released in the first decade of the Uniting Churchs life. Anthropocentrism assumes that human beings alone are created in the image of God, charged with dominion over Earth, and responsible for the fallenness of creation, though not necessarily through the actions of a literal Adam and Eve. This basic framework did not shift in the first decade, even though Earth began to be talked about not as an inanimate resource for human consumption, but something good and valuable in and of itself. In 1990 this anthropocentric paradigm began to be challenged, and during 2000-2002 two quite irreconcilable understandings of the relationship between God and Earth, and thus humans and other animals existed side by side in Uniting Church worship resources. Having listened carefully to the story of life as told by ecological and evolutionary scientists, I conclude that the traditional anthropocentric paradigm is no longer tenable. Instead I propose that all of life is the image of God, in its evolutionary past, ecological present and unknown future. All of life is in direct relationship with God, and exercises dominion of Earth. Evidence traditionally used as evidence of the fallenness of creation is instead affirmed as an essential part of life, though life on Earth has experienced a number of significant falls in biodiversity. Even the more biocentric thought in recent Uniting Church resources is inadequate, because its language implies that life is simple, static, benign, and to some extent designed by God. In order to be adequately consonant with the life sciences, theology must be able to accept that finitude (pain, suffering and death) is a good part of creation, for without it there could be no life. This is an emphasis of ecofeminism, which I extend to affirm not only individual death, but the extinction of whole species, including humans. I argue that the purpose of creation was not the evolution of humans, but to make possible Gods desire for richness of experience, primarily mediated through relationships. Whilst this idea is well established in process theology, it must be purged of its individualistic and consciousness-centric biases to be adequately consonant with the scientific story of life. The resulting biocentric paradigm has several implications for our understanding of Jesus. I argue that he offers salvation from the overwhelming fear of finitude, rather than finitude itself. Against the trend in ecotheology, I propose that this saving work is directed in the first instance to humans only. I tentatively propose that it is directed to only some humans. This, paradoxically, is more affirming of Gods relationship with the rest of creation than most ecotheology, which proclaims Jesus as a global or universal saviour. Salvation for some humans, and all non human creatures, happens only in a secondary sense, because this is the only sense in which they need saving. I then speculate on whether and how it might be possible for a Christian biocentric community to live out its salvation. Finally, I revisit the Basis of Union and argue that although the biocentric theology I have proposed goes well beyond the Basis, it is not at odds with the Basis directions and intentions. Biocentric theology is, rather, an extension of the trajectories already contained within the Basis, with its trust in the eventual reconciliation and renewal of all creation.

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Francis, Cathy, and n/a. "A multi-scale investigation into the effects of permanent inundation on the flood pulse, in ephemeral floodplain wetlands of the River Murray." University of Canberra. Health, Design & Science, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061128.153926.

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Using a multi-scale experimental approach, the research undertaken in this thesis investigated the role of the flood pulse in ephemeral floodplain wetlands of the River Murray, in order to better understand the impact of river regulation (and permanent inundation) on these wetlands. An ecosystem-based experiment was conducted on the River Murray floodplain, to compare changes in nutrient availability and phytoplankton productivity in three ephemeral wetlands (over a drying/reflooding cycle) with three permanently inundated wetlands. In the ephemeral wetlands, both drying and re-flooding phases were associated with significant increases in nutrient availability and, in some cases, phytoplankton productivity. It was demonstrated that the ?flood pulse?, as described by the Flood Pulse Concept (FPC), can occur in ephemeral wetlands in dryland river-floodplain systems, although considerable variation in the nature of the pulse existed amongst these wetlands. Results of this experiment suggest that factors such as the degree of drying and length of isolation during the dry phase, the rate of re-filling, timing of re-flooding and the number of drying/re-flooding cycles may be potentially important in producing the variation observed. Permanent inundation of ephemeral wetlands effectively removed these periods of peak nutrient availability and phytoplankton productivity, resulting in continuously low levels (of nutrient availability and phytoplankton productivity). It was concluded that alteration of the natural hydrological cycle in this way can significantly reduce nutrient availability, primary production and secondary production, essentially changing the structure and function, the ecology, of these wetlands. Equally, the results of this experiment indicate that some of the changes resulting from river regulation and permanent inundation can be somewhat reversed, within a relatively short period of time, given re-instatement of a more natural hydrological regime. A mesocosm experiment was used to examine the influence of the dry phase, specifically the effect of the degree of wetland drying, on patterns of nutrient availability and primary productivity comprising the flood pulse. Compared to permanent inundation, re-flooding of completely desiccated sediments increased carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) availability while partial drying generally decreased, or had little effect on, C and N availability after re-flooding. However, degree of drying had little effect on phosphorus availability or rates of primary production measured after re-flooding, and it is possible that these two factors are related. Partial drying reduced rates of community respiration after reflooding, possibly a reflection of the reduced carbon concentrations measured in these mesocosms in this phase of the experiment. Degree of drying also influenced the macrophyte community (measured after three months of flooding), with plant biomass generally decreasing and species diversity increasing as the degree of drying increased (with the exception of complete sediment desiccation which had lasting negative effects on both macrophyte biomass and species diversity). The results of the ecosystem and mesocosm experiments were utilised, in addition to results collected from the same experiment conducted at two smaller scales (minicosms and microcosms), to assess whether the effects of hydrological regime on nutrient availability at the ?wetland? scale could be replicated in smaller-scale experiments. None of the smaller-scaled experiments included in this investigation were able to replicate the specific response to hydrological regime recorded at the ecosystem scale, however the mesocosm experiment did produce results that were more similar to those at the ecosystem scale than those produced by the mini and microcosm experiments. The results of this study indicated that extrapolation of results from small-scale experiments should be undertaken with caution, and confirmed that a multi-scale approach to ecological research is wise, where large-scale field experimentation and/or monitoring provides a check on the accuracy, and hence relevance, of conclusions reached via mesocosm experiments.

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Baker, Katherine S. "Seed germination and dormancy in south-western Australian fire ephemerals and burial as a factor influencing seed responsiveness to smoke." University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0091.

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[Truncated abstract] Fire ephemerals are pioneer species that germinate in large numbers after fire and generally live for between six months and four years. Seeds produced during the short life span of these plants persist in the soil seedbank until a subsequent fire. This study examined the dormancy characteristics and germination requirements of ten Australian fire ephemeral species from five families. Seeds of four species germinated at one or more incubation temperatures in the laboratory, indicating that a proportion of their seedlots were non-dormant at the time of testing. Austrostipa compressa and Austrostipa macalpinei (Poaceae) produced >80% germination at 10?C and Alyogyne hakeifolia and Alyogyne huegelii (Malvaceae) produced 30-40% and 35-50% germination respectively at 10 to 25°C. In each of the Alyogyne species approximately 50% of seeds were impermeable to water, but scarification did not enable germination of all viable seeds suggesting that seeds which did not germinate, may have possessed physiological dormancy as well as physical dormancy. Remaining species had water permeable seeds. ... Germination of both Alyogyne species declined after six months of winter burial but was enhanced by heat treatments after a further six months of summer burial. Actinotus leucocephalus and Tersonia cyathiflora seeds exhibited annual dormancy cycling over two years of burial. Dormancy was alleviated over summer, allowing seeds of both species to germinate in smoke water when seeds were exhumed in autumn, and reimposed over winter, suppressing germination in spring. In Actinotus leucocephalus these dormancy changes were induced in the laboratory by warm (≥15°C) and cold (5°C) temperatures, alleviating and re-imposing dormancy, respectively. Wetting and drying seeds stored at 37°C further accelerated the rate of dormancy release. This dormancy cycling would increase the likelihood of seeds germinating when moisture availability in south-western Australia is greatest for seedling survival. It also explains the variation in germination response to smoke water observed in many species. Thus under natural conditions dormancy levels of fire ephemerals were altered during soil storage which enabled them to respond to fire-related cues such as heat and smoke water, and germinate in autumn. This information will assist in the use of these species in land rehabilitation and ornamental horticulture, and in the conservation of rare or endangered fire ephemerals.

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Haring, Christian [Verfasser], Steffen [Gutachter] Siegel, and Olaf [Gutachter] Peters. "Wir machen kein Theater! : Passagen der Performance Art der 60er Jahre bis heute, mit Hinblick auf Einschreibung, Aufzeichnung und Neubewertung von ephemerer Kunst / Christian Haring ; Gutachter: Steffen Siegel, Olaf Peters." Jena : Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1170399576/34.

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Yates, Atkins Gillian Kaye. "Ephemeral installations: Contemporary Canadian art in the public arena." 2007. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=742099&T=F.

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Shiell, Michael. "Trace : an exploration of alternative means of documenting ephemeral environmental art." Thesis, 2011. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/41479.

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Doctor of Philosophy
The field of Ephemeral Environmental Art is now very well established in contemporary arts practice. The ephemerality of the work together with the fact that its location is frequently inaccessible results in the need for documentation. Photography is the primary means by which these artworks are recorded. The role of photography is very important, however, it is also limited as a documentary outcome. As a visual artist who creates Ephemeral Environmental Art I am concerned that while photography can quickly and relatively easily create a visual record of the created form, its highly refined view of time and space is also problematic. The value placed on an instantaneous moment denies the process underpinning the interaction. Additionally, the camera as a mechanical intermediary between the work and its representation is counter to the intimate, viscerally known manipulation of materials that occurs onsite. Therefore a sense of disjunction can occur. There are isolated examples of artists using alternative documentary formats in the recording of this art form. This research engages with these alternative image-making techniques to explore and extend the notion of documentation. While direct reference to the form is maintained, the documentary outcomes are enriched with subtle and appropriate allusions to the site, the significance of change over time and the process of material manipulation in the construction of the artwork. This practice-led investigation has found that these alternative image-making techniques can produce meaningful forms of visual documentation. The considered application of these techniques, which is informed by the critical engagement with contemporary theoretical concepts, allows for the creation of conceptually appropriate documents. While the artworks demonstrate these enriched outcomes, no single documentary technique has been identified as applicable in all instances of recording Ephemeral Environmental Art.

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