Sökning: "materiality of the body"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 44 avhandlingar innehållade orden materiality of the body.
1. Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies
Sammanfattning : Studies on Fantasmical Anatomies is an ongoing transdisciplinary artistic research, which encompasses the spectrum of experiences and practices that I have developed as a choreographer, dancer and Feldenkrais practitioner. My interest in anatomy and somatic practices grew out of multiple shoulder dislocations. LÄS MER
2. Spår, kropp, tid : En undersökning av den måleriska gestens materialitet 1952–1965
Sammanfattning : I Spår, kropp, tid undersöks den måleriska gestens materialitet i måleri som förknippas med abstrakt expressionism och informell konst. Ett återkommande drag i beskrivningarna av denna konst är att den sägs peka mot, eller handla om, individen eller individualitet; antingen som ett uttryck förkonstnärens inre liv genom fria, improviserade stråk på duken, eller i relation till sociala och historiska sammanhang där individualiteten har uppfattats som undertryckt av industrialismens effekter eller av kollektivistisk statligpolitik. LÄS MER
3. Technology as an extension of the human body : Exploring the potential role of technology in an elderly home care setting
Sammanfattning : The present thesis explores the potential role and implications of technology in elderly care from the users’ perspective. This exploration is undertaken in terms of five empirical studies of a telehealth project and a meta-analysis of their contributions. LÄS MER
4. Body of movement : (in)forming movement
Sammanfattning : In dance many choreographers uses neutral garments not to distract too much from the movement the ”natural” body performs. Still these garments paints the body with color, form, identity and movement qualities. LÄS MER
5. Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the problem of the inhuman in relation to human nature in philosophy from antiquity to the present, highlighting the interrelationship between science and philosophy in the development of concepts of monstrosity in France from mid-sixteenth century to late twentieth century thought. By means of constraint, it focuses on Ambroise Paré (1509/10–90) and Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) as representatives of early humanism and posthumanism, respectively. LÄS MER