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The Visible Space of Actionism: Action and Interptitation

Student: Nefedova Olga

Supervisor: Nina Sosna

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2018

This work is devoted to the problem of the artistic and political practice of Russian actionism and aims to find a theoretical way of combining political and aesthetic aspects of the practice equally connected with the flow of life and the "art of flow". The system of expression in an actionist practice that manifests itself in public spaces is simultaneously connected with the system of expression in the political assembly and with the aesthetic problems of contemporary art. In this regard, actionism as an artistic gesture still remains problematic for comprehension in the categories of art-critics and the institutional theory of art. And, at that time, can not be considered within the framework of the political theory of assemblies, expressing a fundamentally subjective experience of perception. In this work the theoretical language of the analysis of actionism as an autonomous artistic practice of appearance is trying to be worked out. This language should take into account both the aesthetic and political conditions and properties of practice and is able to cover the specificity of its action on the border of art and life. Author uses emancipation theory to integrate this theme into political discourse and appeals to the politics of the image and refers to the politics of the image and the theory of post-conceptual art interpreting this practice also within the framework of the discourse on art.

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