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Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female Colombian Artists

Gontovnik, Monica
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts).
This is a feminist project that investigates the performative practices of contemporary female Colombian artists. It was guided by a main research question: Is there a particular kind of strength that comes from their specific situation as contemporary Colombian female artists? As such, this dissertation relies on fieldwork and critical theory in order to elucidate how such diverse individuals perform multiple art practices and what they do in and with their art practices. Two dozen women opened their doors, provided their time for video taped conversation and gave their archival material for the realization of this project. The main hypothesis this dissertation worked with relates to the existence of a possible double work or doubling of the work a woman artist executes in the need to undo what has been culturally assigned in order to then create her own images, ideas and concepts about being a woman in her society. Within the undoing and the doing, a liminal space allows the artists to realize how the cultural ideas of feminine essences evidence a conceptual void. Once the artistic work uncovers these supposed essences as false expectations, the strength that emanates from the vantage point of un-definition becomes the source of unbound creativity that produces artwork of political significance. The themes that emerged during fieldwork and writing show that in the same way these artists become others; multiplying possibilities of being while in their practices, they are able to influence their surroundings in minute, effective ways. Otherness is a central theme that has aided the understanding of the work these women realize. An important theoretical source is the seminal work of Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex, even though in five chapters the artistic work of nine artists are thoroughly discussed through multiple theories that traverse the text. Some of the theorists that have aided the present text are: Gloria Anzaldua, Rosi Braidoti, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Bracha Ettinger, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Catherine Malabou, Laura Mulvey, Jean Luc Nancy, Peggy Phelan, Griselda Pollock, Jacques Ranciere, and Monique Wittig.
Marina Peterson, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Vladimiri Marchenkov, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jennie Klein, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Louis-George Schwartz, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
370 p.
Aesthetics; Art Criticism; Art History; Cultural Anthropology; Dance; Fine Arts; Gender Studies; Latin American Studies; Literature; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Theater
Feminism; performance studies; visual studies; Colombian artists; visual art; dance; theatre; film; performance art; poetry; myth; Latin Studies; Women Studies; Gender Studies; Contemporary Philosophy; Aesthetics, Colombia;

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  • Gontovnik, M. (2015). Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female Colombian Artists [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gontovnik, Monica. Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female Colombian Artists . 2015. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gontovnik, Monica. "Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female Colombian Artists ." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106

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