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Abstract

Transitory Architecture is a practice research (PR) project that sits within the space between choreography and architecture. The intention is to take creative inspiration from both disciplines, in order to inform the development of an interdisciplinary practice aimed for both artistic and didactic purposes. My practical insights foster questions-as-findings and original aesthetic claims stemming from an embodied investigation into our experience of architectonic space: seen as individuals, as members of socio-cultural communities, and as human beings.

Throughout the project I have been producing interdisciplinary artworks where the relation between bodies and space is brought into focus through the presence of performers in interaction with designed scenographic sets. This relation defines the dramaturgy of each work (as they revolve around different forms of dwelling) and propels the performative action. My artworks are used as case studies to unravel the multi-layered design of my methodology and advance my theoretical enquiry.

The exegesis (or written component) provides the reader with a reflective account of my practice research in its entirety: starting from a commentary of my multi-model creative processes; proceeding into a detailed exposition of my interdisciplinary methodology; to finally articulate my theoretical claims, result of a triangulated analysis of the multimedia documentation gathered throughout the project.

Striving to identify the intrinsic significance of my interdisciplinary practice, this study follows two main lines of theoretical enquiry which contribute to the contemporary field of aesthetics. The first draws from a phenomenological account of choreography and architecture (complemented by cognitive and anthropological theories), and regards the impact of my PR on our structures of self-consciousness: perception; imagination; and agency. The second concerns the production of signs within my artworks, questioning whether they are capable of preceding hermeneutical interpretation. Both enquiries converge into a focus on aesthetic experience as a perpetual oscillation between presences and meanings.

Publication Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Subjects:	N Fine Arts N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Departments:	Doctoral Theses

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