Moving Through Images: Spectatorship and Meaning-Production in Interdisciplinary Art Environments

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dc.contributor.advisorParsons, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorWilmink, Melanie Thekala
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-11T12:44:45Z
dc.date.available2020-08-11T12:44:45Z
dc.date.copyright2020-04
dc.date.issued2020-08-11
dc.date.updated2020-08-11T12:44:45Z
dc.degree.disciplineArt History and Visual Culture
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation establishes a framework for understanding embodied experience within immersive art environments by examining artworks that deploy interdisciplinary conventions to turn attention towards spectatorship itself. To accomplish this, I apply cross-disciplinary theory from John Dewey, Henri Bergson, Brian ODoherty, Gilles Deleuze, Laura U. Marks, Peggy Phelan, and others, to close-readings of select case studies. My methodology articulates how memory, duration, material forms, and the relational dynamics between the spectator and artwork all structure the aesthetic encounter. It is my aim to bring together the rich, but isolated, knowledge sets of the art gallery, cinema, and stage to develop a more nuanced understanding of how attentive spectatorial engagement with artwork is produced. In Chapter One, Robert Lepage and Ex Machinas installation The Library at Night (2016) demonstrates the philosophical framework for how a spectator moves between the virtual and physical within aesthetic encounters. Chapter Two extends these ideas through the spatial conditions of the art gallery in dominique t skoltzs y2o dualits_ (2015) exhibitions. Chapter Three addresses the architecture of the cinema, through Janet Cardiff and George Bures Millers The Paradise Institute (2001), which calls attention to the temporal and social conditions of cinema as an interloper in the gallery. Finally, Chapter Four examines the Situation Rooms (2013/2016) as theatre group Rimini Protokoll disrupts the division between the audience and stage by placing the viewer in the middle of the action as a live participant. Each of these case studies examines how artistic intervention either deploys or disrupts the architecture of the exhibition space in order to produce spectatorship that oscillates between the viewers immediate aesthetic encounter and the structures that construct their experience the work.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/37726
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectAesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsArt spectatorship
dc.subject.keywordsCinema spectatorship
dc.subject.keywordsTheatre spectatorship
dc.subject.keywordsSpectatorship
dc.subject.keywordsInterdisciplinary
dc.subject.keywordsExhibition
dc.subject.keywordsGallery
dc.subject.keywordsCinema
dc.subject.keywordsStage
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance
dc.subject.keywordsBlack box
dc.subject.keywordsWhite cube
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetic experience
dc.subject.keywordsExpanded cinema
dc.subject.keywordsMedia art
dc.subject.keywordsDisplay
dc.subject.keywordsArt environment
dc.subject.keywordsExhibition architecture
dc.subject.keywordsGallery history
dc.subject.keywordsCinema history
dc.subject.keywordsStage history
dc.subject.keywordsSite-specific art
dc.subject.keywordsImmersive art
dc.subject.keywordsMobility
dc.subject.keywordsLiveness
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.subject.keywordsInteractive art
dc.subject.keywordsMoving images
dc.subject.keywordsScreen
dc.subject.keywordsVR
dc.subject.keywordsVirtual reality
dc.subject.keywordsRelational aesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsRobert Lepage
dc.subject.keywordsEx Machina
dc.subject.keywordsThe Library at Night
dc.subject.keywordsLa bibliothèque
dc.subject.keywordsLa nuit
dc.subject.keywordsJanet Cardiff
dc.subject.keywordsGeorge Bures Miller
dc.subject.keywordsThe Paradise Institute
dc.subject.keywordsDominique t skoltz
dc.subject.keywordsy20
dc.subject.keywordsy2o dualités_
dc.subject.keywordsRimini Protokoll
dc.subject.keywordsSituation Rooms
dc.subject.keywordsInstallation art
dc.subject.keywordsImmersive theatre
dc.subject.keywordsHenri Bergson
dc.subject.keywordsJohn Dewey
dc.subject.keywordsLaura U. Marks
dc.subject.keywordsPeggy Phelan
dc.subject.keywordsBrian O'Doherty
dc.subject.keywordsGilles Deleuze
dc.subject.keywordsMemory
dc.titleMoving Through Images: Spectatorship and Meaning-Production in Interdisciplinary Art Environments
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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