Browsing by Subject "Becoming"

Now showing 1 - 7 of 7

Open Access
The artistic afterlife of electronic waste
(2019-12) Köksal, Esra
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 in this thesis emphasize that obsolete electronics should not be considered waste. From an array of artworks presented, works from artists such as Grégory Chatonsky, Walter Giers and Gabriel Dishaw partake in this thesis. In order to scrutinize these artworks, this study adopts a theoretical perspective that is strongly rooted in Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of ‘becoming,’ ‘rhizome’ and ‘deterritorialization.’ These theories are applied to the fluid state of geological properties—such as aluminium, gold, copper and tantalum— that make up electronic devices. The contents that bring electronics to life are mined predominantly from the inner layers of the earth’s strata; therefore, their becomings are initiated long before their functionality in electronics. Contributing to and expanding upon the Deleuzian-Guattarian thought, Braidotti’s articulations on ‘becoming-nomad’ and her argument that nomadic ethics is the path for a sustainable future is also utilized. Besides, engaging in a different perspective toward media, Parikka emphasizes the need to look at media hardware and understand the contents that makes electronics function. Through art, identifying obsolete electronics with a potential for further use engages with issues of sustainability.
Open Access
Bodies in transfiguration: ontological in-betweenness in the Weimar aesthetics
(2021-05) Yılmaz, Didem
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, Otto Dix, and George Grosz in terms of the liminal visualization of the human body in three central motifs that include the Volkskörper’s (People’s Body) philosophical, aesthetic, and political reflections. This term carries a crucial importance in this thesis to dismantle the subject from its social and individual body structures in which it exists. These artists’ common traits arise from their searching for alternative forms in aesthetic, political, and social realms. The human bodies that are in constant change and transition in these artists’ projects enable an analysis from an interdisciplinary angle, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s ontology of becoming, Rosi Braidotti’s critical posthumanism, and Donna Haraway’s theory of the cyborg. This integrative methodology demonstrates how the Weimar aesthetics that experience modernism embodies and accommodates different artistic modalities that explore human-machine relationships in various forms.
Open Access
Dismantling the self : exploring the infinite becomings in Orlan's body of work
(2010) Baykan, Burcu
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 between their projects. It focuses on a range of conceptual resources, primarily Deleuze's formulations together with Guattari on ‘becoming’ to explore the artist’s fluid states of being that are always in the process of transition and her body’s constantly changing nature as a transformative experience. It also includes their theories of ‘rhizome’, ‘machinic assemblages’ and ‘body without organs’ to provide insights into her work as a form of expanded art practice that enables proliferating connections and collective arrangements, as well as to characterize it as a non-dualistic process that is no longer contingent on binary divisions.
Open Access
Experimental video art : on the borders between theory and practice
(2011) Tepehan, Neslihan
The aim of this thesis is to explore the new image and thought in reference to philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Thus, his discussions on art and cinema are studied thoroughly. The revelation of affects, percepts and sensations in art constitutes the important amount of this thesis. In reference to that the revelation of movementimage and time-image in cinema explored, in order to understand the identity of the image in different art forms. Finally in the light of these explorations on image, experimental video art is discussed in individual works, in the hope of discovering borders between theory and practice aside the discovery of the possibilities this new image can offer to thought. These discussions on cinema and experimental video art enlighten not only concepts of cinema and video, but also alter their relation with other practices and theories.
Embargo
Fluxes of desire: queer monstrous becomings in contemporary horror cinema
(2024-12) Neşe, Rüya
This thesis re-evaluates the intersection of queerness and monstrosity in contemporary horror cinema by moving beyond identity-based and representational frameworks that have dominated queer horror studies. Presenting an alternative to psychoanalytic and structuralist approaches rooted in binary oppositions (e.g., self/other, male/female, human/non- human), it critiques their heteronormative biases and highlights their inadequacy in accounting for the fluidity and ambiguity of real-life queer experiences and their manifestations in monstrous figures. In search of a more affirmative approach, this thesis draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of becoming, as well as insights from contemporary Deleuzian scholars like Rosi Braidotti, Patricia MacCormack and Verena Conley to reconceptualize queerness and monstrosity as fluid, indeterminate, and liminal processes that challenge rigid categorizations and interpretations within anthropo-phallogocentric order. Engaging with six contemporary horror films, Raw (2016), Bones and All (2022), The Lure (2015), The Untamed (2016), Titane (2021), and Hellraiser (2022) and bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives in horror film studies, queer theory, and Deleuzoguattarian philosophy, this thesis shifts the analytical focus from representational and identitarian readings to the affirmative and transformative potential of queer-becoming, reframing monstrosity as an open-ended and dynamic process of radical creativity that produces alternative modes of existence beyond the confines of majoritarian discourses on identity, gender, sexuality, and subjectivity.
Open Access
Gesturing toward utopia: queer time and place in the performance Art of Cassils, boychild and Marval A Rex
(2020-08) Hamamcıoğlu, Gamze
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 Marval A Rex are explored. The primary purpose of this thesis is to reveal the queer politics and potentials regarding time and space in the performances of the selected artists. To achieve this goal, this thesis explores how the concepts of time and space are built depending on gender and sexuality and how heteronormativity excludes queers during this building process. Accordingly, seeking to find a way to suspend the formation of this normative spatiotemporality which renders queers invisible, this project approaches performance art as a world-making practice to explore alternative ways of existence. In this respect, this thesis argues that these artists entail their bodies and performative spaces into a neverending process as a queer strategy to build their own non-normative peculiar existence. Thus, the chosen artists gesture toward a utopian world which remains vital for queers by conceptually dismantling the domination of heteronormative body, identity, gender and sexuality.
Open Access
Mimesis and sociality : a reading of the question of literature in Deleuze and Derrida
(2008) Koyuncu, Emre
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 this relationship, this thesis makes a detour through the question of literature in the thoughts of these thinkers. In this view, it is argued that the sociality proposed by Deleuze and Derrida challenge the traditional premises of society through the sorcery of becoming and wizardry of pharmakos respectively, criticizing the idealization of a model for citizenship and the originarization of sociality by way of a linear passage between the natural and the political.