Situated within visual art practice, this artistic doctoral thesis looks at art as a means to care for the notion of the subject as a nexus of relationality, and asks how the author’s practice of picture-making and artistic ways of knowing can reform what he calls “Neoliberal-Teflon Imperviousness.” The aim of this inquiry is to make suggestions and experiment with the role of artistic research in the recuperation of permeability, imagination, and affectability.
ArbetstitelA Never-Ending Thirst: Artistic Reforms to Neoliberal-Teflon Imperviousness
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Publiceringsdatum2021-10-25 00:00:00
FörfattareAndré Alves
Kort BeskrivningAvhandling i Design vid Högskolan för Konst och Design vid Göteborgs universitet. Dissertation in Design in Academy of Art and Design
At the core of this project is the debate about the effects that capitalism has in the loss of sensitivity and imagination in culture. André Alves’ project departed from the understanding that sensitivity and imagination are main aspects of what art works with—and what capitalist seeks to appropriate and destroy—and revives old questions of how the aesthetic contributes to how we live, and how to shape artistic strategies of existence.
The research was developed around twelve projects and forms of writing that articulated, experimented and developed the inquiry.
Throughout André Alves’ research, his artistic projects oscillated between the authored and the collective — and embodiment in the artistic practice of the negotiations between the individual and the collective that his inquiry is about. One of the arguments of the inquiry is how art must take the role to increase affectability in culture, to educate us to welcome the unpredictable, the foreign, difference. In this, the author claim that artistic research can rehearse reforms—to reshape in order to change—to Neoliberal-Teflon static, disaffected composition of the world.
The research is described in terms of a practice, and in that sense, never-concluding. At stake is the potential that artistic research might have as a listening ethics and a pedagogy of openness. And this brings up the aspect of responsibility. If changing ideas and sensitivity is perceived by people as threatening, how to emotionally prepare people to welcome change?
At the later stage of his research, the author reflected on the responsibility of scholar work in relation to sensitivity. Sensitivity is not simply insight. Scholar work is typically linked to intellectual and discursive production, not having present the levels of comfort, the “emotional toolkit”, that people need in order to welcome new, challenging, unpleasant, ideas. That art of connecting thinking-feeling is where André Alves sees his future work.
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