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Gesturing toward utopia: queer time and place in the performance Art of Cassils, boychild and Marval A Rex
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)
This thesis examines queer body/performance art concentrating on the concepts of time and space. Prioritizing the approach of queer theory to the perception of time and space, the performances of Cassils, boychild and ...
The artistic afterlife of electronic waste
(Bilkent University, 2019-12)
This thesis aims to take a closer look at artistic projects that use discarded electronic
parts as preferred medium. Electronic waste cumulates as the result of a highly
technological era. The artworks that take part ...
Mimesis and sociality : a reading of the question of literature in Deleuze and Derrida
(Bilkent University, 2008)
The aim of this study is to discuss the significance of Platonic mimesis in the new
forms of relationality and sociality proposed in the philosophies of Gilles
Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. For a better understanding of ...
Bodies in transfiguration: ontological in-betweenness in the Weimar aesthetics
(Bilkent University, 2021-05)
This thesis examines the processes of bodily transformation in the Weimar aesthetics embarking on an eclectic philosophy. For this aim, it explores the artworks of Max Ernst, Heinrich Hoerle, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, ...
Dismantling the self : exploring the infinite becomings in Orlan's body of work
(Bilkent University, 2010)
This study is an attempt to elaborate the significance of multimedia and
performance artist Orlan’s body and identity altering practices along the
lines of Deleuzian theory, and to explore the points of overlap and
resonances ...