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The Guava Platform (last edited: 2023)

Thalia Hoffman
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The Guava Platform, which is at the centre of the PhD thesis of Thalia Hoffman, was initiated in 2014 as a conceptual framework of my art practice and research. The aim of the Guava Platform is to research and create possible techniques of art-actions that are part of my quest to continue to live in the conflicted landscape, east of the Mediterranean, as an artist. This dissertation assembles the Guava art-actions: i.e. a series of three short films, an online radio station, two performances, a geotagging website, and a scent collection as well as the research into a combined space. Both the art-actions and the research convey the Guava Platform. The leading questions of the thesis are: How can time-based art-actions in a conflicted landscape induce and take part in an embodiment of constructive political imagination? If both physical and conceptual ‘movement’ are the actions’ impetus, how can these actions adjust the socio-political impasse of the landscape? And how can they contribute to a socio-political discussion of the landscape I live in? The outcome of this research is presented on a website. Here, the different components, the art-actions and texts, are not bound to a hierarchical relationship between theory and practice that might restrict their possibility to interact. Instead, the website enables the visitor to navigate between the different artistic and discursive elements in a nonlinear way.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsartistic research, socio-politically engaged art, time based media, time-based arts, phenomenology, political science, art as action
date16/12/2022
last modified02/02/2023
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightThalia Hoffman
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1868405/1868406
external linkhttps://hdl.handle.net/1887/137748


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