Academy of Fine Arts Vienna PhD in Practice (Doctor of Philosophy in Practice) Personal number: 0003 Andres Guibert
Abstract
The proposed project analyses how individual gay identities contest cultural policies in repressive regimes reformulating themselves in their search for self-definition through artistic expression and queer politic strategies. Through the exploration of a phenomenology of the gaze focused on the body of performers and their tableau-vivant, this photo-installations project address issues inscribed in the dialectic of gaze and desire, and the search for the existentiary site of the self within the artwork and its phantasmatic voyage toward the interiority of the subject. The phenomenological approach reflected in this proposal deepens our understandings of how performative acts enriches collective and individual identities within a geopolitical cultural context, thus viewing the various dramatic and syntagmatic strategies as a significant contribution to the understanding of historical processes of gender formation and gender politics in contemporary China. The central point of this research analyzes through an interdisciplinary approach, the modalities of being and presence in the crystallization of artworks as an act of constestation. Acts that affect individual transactions and displacement manifest in the works of art as cultural agents. In order to search for the symbolic economy of alterity and those processes that are necessary in the construction of queer desire, the desire for identity and its politics of representation, a cross examination of the influence of Visuality, linguistics and rhetorical figures of speech in the exegesis of contemporary creative practice, is presented. The aim of this project is to analyze the notion of a queer Neo baroque personality, the subversion of gender differences and its correlation with the Chinese contemporary sociopolitical context and the conditions and conditioning that affect the transactions with the phenomenological world of the event and its political representations. This project examines artistic interactions between individuals and the symbolic network they have invented – performative tableau vivant - in order to shape and challenge inter-subjective shared meanings under oppressive regimes through processes of ritualization.
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna PhD in Practice (Doctor of Philosophy in Practice) Personal number: 0003 Andres Guibert
Abstract
The proposed project analyses how individual gay identities contest cultural policies in repressive regimes reformulating themselves in their search for self-definition through artistic expression and queer politic strategies. Through the exploration of a phenomenology of the gaze focused on the body of performers and their tableau-vivant, this photo-installations project address issues inscribed in the dialectic of gaze and desire, and the search for the existentiary site of the self within the artwork and its phantasmatic voyage toward the interiority of the subject. The phenomenological approach reflected in this proposal deepens our understandings of how performative acts enriches collective and individual identities within a geopolitical cultural context, thus viewing the various dramatic and syntagmatic strategies as a significant contribution to the understanding of historical processes of gender formation and gender politics in contemporary China. The central point of this research analyzes through an interdisciplinary approach, the modalities of being and presence in the crystallization of artworks as an act of constestation. Acts that affect individual transactions and displacement manifest in the works of art as cultural agents. In order to search for the symbolic economy of alterity and those processes that are necessary in the construction of queer desire, the desire for identity and its politics of representation, a cross examination of the influence of Visuality, linguistics and rhetorical figures of speech in the exegesis of contemporary creative practice, is presented. The aim of this project is to analyze the notion of a queer Neo baroque personality, the subversion of gender differences and its correlation with the Chinese contemporary sociopolitical context and the conditions and conditioning that affect the transactions with the phenomenological world of the event and its political representations. This project examines artistic interactions between individuals and the symbolic network they have invented – performative tableau vivant - in order to shape and challenge inter-subjective shared meanings under oppressive regimes through processes of ritualization.