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title: "Gesture in the Image"
candidate: "Mag.art. Anja Manfredi"
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study_program: "Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)"
abstract: "This dissertation project, Gesture in the Image, is an investigation into the concept of gesture, from the perspective of the body to the transfer into the imaging medium of analogue photography, in contemporary art and cultural production. How can thinking, which becomes visible and transparent as gestures, be materialised in photography?The dissertation is structured like an exhibition, with three rooms or spaces. The first is an introduction to the concept of the gesture (referencing Vilém Flusser, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler – abstracted gestures in philosophy, spotlights on gestures in a historical space or room). It is followed by the room of Aby Warburg, who introduced artistic thinking into research. This way of thinking and working serves as a reference and method to curate the pictorial atlas to gesture in the present. A guiding figure in this work, both in content and form, is the figure of Atlas, as a mythological apparition, together with its environment and as a visual form. The pictorial atlas as a workshop of knowledge and a reflection on the pictures and their fates. In the third exhibition space, the third chapter, significant artists are presented under the following categories: 1) An Arsenal of Gestures – Gendered Gestures?, 2) (Self)-Analysis via Photography and the Arrangement of Material, 3) Afterlives and Transformations, 4) Thinking as Gesture that is Materialised in Photography or in Objects as Bodies, 5) Solidarity and Interconnectedness between Species. Thus, with the help of this research and analyses, the question of the (materialised) gesture is finally pursued in order to discover whether and how a gesture exposes what is concealed."
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