Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Alena Alexandrova

Thesis: Forms that enable Transformation

June, 2014

ABSTRACT     

This thesis is an analysis about some contemporary artworks' intentions, regarding to the coherence between messages and forms. Taking the forms not only of the artwork itself but also about the context, the exhibition format, and the perspective that enables regarding to time. The way a work is exhibited according to the place and how the time is articulated is themaain concern of this thesis. That is why First chapter is about retrospective shows or how to arrange past, and second about how to articulate present, different presents, and third is about mixing times as a way of escaping the standard languages and forms, through artificiallity. In order to follow the time and place axes, 1 found important the analysis and overview of the current categorizations processes, not only in art, but in society. As a way of making them a conscious process and watch the difference between the need and the habit of categorizations.

Author: Larraitz Torres Zumelaga