Browsing by Subject "Body"

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The 1912 Galata Bridge as a site of collective memory
(2002) Şumnu, Umut
This work looks at the 1912 Galata Bridge as a case study and attempts to examine it as a dual construction in two senses: space and memory. Acknowledging that space and memory mutually construct each other, this thesis explains each term in general but also elucidates the relationship between perception and remembrance of space by reading the materiality of the 1912 Galata Bridge. In that respect, changing meanings attributed to space over time are analysed lead us to recognise two different ways of conceiving space named as 'spaceness' and 'placeness'. This dual existence is conductive to raising questions about perception of the 1912 Galata Bridge in two layers. Taken separately, its function of conveyance and the property of inhabitation lead us to read 'spaceness' and 'placeness' that also correspond to two ways of remembering it. Its 'spaceness' is perceived by the gaze and remembered through looking at its images, its 'placeness, on the other hand, is experienced by the body and recollected through reading texts that describe the actual engagement. Hence, 'spaceness' and 'placeness', gaze and body, image and text are correspondingly related with each other by the agency of the 1912 Galata Bridge as situated in collective memory.
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Anima: media in bodily terms as a multi-sensory artwork
(2018-07) Şengün, Hayri
This thesis is a written translation of the project "Anima". It art historically, theoretically and technically reveals the thought and procedures behind the project. And it shows my path and stance as an artist and MFA student. Concerning the concept of Ocularcentrism, it is argued that the concept itself pales the art and the media and causes the disembodiments. In order to clarify the notion of disembodiment, a discussion on concepts of body and medium is exercised. Following this discussion, it is claimed that a new approach to the eye as a part of senses as an organized whole could bring a new way for media in bodily terms as a whole of the collaboration each medium used. Through this notion of art and media, art historical part clarified. And also the project is technically revealed by comparing and contrast with artists and artworks in case.
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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.
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Bodiless art
(1999) Selen, Eser
This research is derived from the notion of body in recent art, which may be thought within a concept of bodilessness. The aim of the study is to evaluate the answer(s) to the question “How is this bodilessness possible, if it is?”. During the study different genres of art will be discussed, examined and explored concerning both the researcher works and some contemporary artists' works, which deal with the ideas of the body. The works will be analyzed both in terms of their plastic language and by referring to psychoanalytic concepts in order to point to a way to show how the viewer/reader may experience this bodilessness as the consequence of these works.
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The body unmasked : the uncanny and masked acting
(2001) Çakmak, Gülru
The body is not only a natural conglomeration of different internal organs, but it is also the site around/on/through which narratives of subjectivity are constructed and deconstructed. The Freudian unheimlich, translated into English as ‘the uncanny’, transgresses the rules of signification established by such narratives. This study focuses on a particular play on the site of the body, i.e. the ‘body’ suggested by masked acting. Masked acting takes place within the structure of the uncanny in transgressing the discourse of the transcendent self based on the meaningfulness, expediency and unity of the ‘body’. The case study is the masks designed by Kuzgun Acar for Mehmet Ulusoy’s 1975 Théatre de Libérté production of Bertol Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
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Body, disease and late Ottoman literature : debates on Ottoman muslim family in the Tanzimat period (1839-1908)
(2008) Demirci, Tuba
This study analyzes the development and transformation of Ottoman population policies and medical regulations together with their social impact in the Tanzimat Period. It also aims to document the transformation of Ottoman modern state apparatus in the scope of population policies, which characterized the era for their political, economic, moral, sanitary and military significance. Population and public health policies, diverse regulatory discourses related to these policy orientations, and finally literary works belonged to the Tanzimat period are evaluated to historicize the re-construction of power, and the emergence of Ottoman modern (Muslim) family and individual.
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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.
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Encounter, mimesis, play: theatricality in spatial arts
(1999) Sarıkartal, Çetin
On the basis of the experience of four works from Turkey, this study attempts to reveal that actual experience of spatial arts (traditionally called visual arts) is also theatrical. During the study, it is observed that the fundamental factor behind the experience of spatial artworks is an uncanny encounter with them in a specific space- time. The study further argues that the enactment of the audience in the space-time of the work involves an intermingling of pre-rational and rational modes of mimesis and play. In this context, a theoretical study can be based on sensuous bodily affection by the works, following the traces of practical logic, which is effective during such experience.
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Exploring local and global ideals of beauty in Turkey : discourses and practices of plastic surgery patients and physicians
(2008) Tarı, Berna
Intrigued by an increase in demand for aesthetic operations all over the world, this study offers an in-depth investigation of plastic surgery as a consumption phenomenon. First, it looks at how local and global notions of the beautiful are negotiated in Turkey through consumption and marketing of aesthetic operations. Second, it looks at the nature of a service relationship formed between the surgeon and the patient-consumer, and how this relationship is constructed and maintained. Gazi University Hospital was chosen as the ethnographic research site. Results indicate that beauty is perceived as something that individuals improve, upgrade, and refine through time. Potential patients tend to have one of two ideals: The individual’s own younger appearance or someone else’s appearance. The ideal presented in the media is changing, making the target both difficult to achieve and difficult to catch. Here it is also possible to talk about a marketing process initiated and maintained by doctors and aesthetic medical companies at a global level. Neither the dominant logic nor the new logic of marketing can satisfactorily explain patient-consumers’ behavior in this context, where boundaries for the product cannot be established and there is considerably higher risk compared to other purchasing situations. It is possible to talk about doctor branding in this context, where brand positioning and brand image cannot be static since doctors are also people. Moreover, patient satisfaction has longitudinal and interpersonal characteristics since it involves the approval of others.
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From feminine writing to feminine painting
(2006) Tokdemir, Itır
This thesis derives form Hélène Cixous’ conception of “l’écriture féminine”. Using this concept, art works created by Marina Abramovic and Tracey Emin were analyzed. In relation to the concept of “l’écriture féminine”, an attempt at “la péinture feminine” is proposed. Under the concept of “la péinture feminine” art works were created.
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Gülten Akın şiirinde işkence ve ahlak
(Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2009) Akgül, Alphan Yusuf
Gülten Akın şiiri işkence gibi sosyal sorunlarla yakından ilişkilidir. Onun Oğlunu Soran Kadının Şiiri ve Şifahi adlı şiirleri, şiirin işkenceye karşı nasıl bir direnme stratejisi olarak kullanılabileceğini gösteren işlevsel örneklerdir. Öte yandan, bu şiirler yalnızca birer ağıt değil, aynı zamanda işkence eyleminin çıkmazlarını gösteren birer ahlaki manifestodur. Dolayısıyla, bu şiirler J.M. Coetzee’nin Barbarları Beklerken adlı romanında işkence üzerine yaptığı spekülasyonlarla ilişkilendirilebilir: Bir kurbanın işkenceden ruhunu kurtarabilmesi mümkün müdür? İşkencecinin ellerini yıkayarak işkence suçundan aklanması mümkün müdür? Akın’ın yanıtı, işkence üzerine Stoacı argümanlarla örtüşür. İnsanoğlu bir aklî ruha sahiptir, dolayısıyla o, aklî ruhunu kullanarak bedensel hazları ve acıları göz ardı edebilir. İşkence mağdurunun direnme stratejisi de bu aklî ruha dayanır. Çünkü mağdur bedensel acıyı göz ardı edebildiği sürece, işkencecinin işlevi anlamını yitirecektir. Böylece, mağdur ruhunu işkenceden kurtarabilecek, oysa, işkenceci ellerini yıkayabildiği hâlde, asla suçundan arınamayacaktır. Çünkü mağdurun bedeni, işkencecinin ise ruhu kirlenmiştir. Başka deyişle, bedensel temizlik, işkenceci için daima simgesel bir arınma olarak kalacaktır.
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Half asleep, winded losses : a visual survey on photography, memory and meaning
(2012) Bilgenoğlu, Begüm
As!Henry! Bergson! points! out,!memory!images! that!we! have! stored!in! our! minds! throughout!our!lives! trigger!our!past!experiences!and!help! form! the! moment! we! live! in. This! thesis! is! an! attempt! to challenge! my! perception! about! the! issues! that! are! bodily disturbing! for! me! in! my! memories.! It! is! related!with! the!level!of!intimacy!and! the!blurred!line!between!private!and! public!that!makes!me!uncomfortable.!This!thesis!explores!this!point!through! a! photo]text! project! consisting of different! sets! of! photographs! that! trigger! my!own!memories!through!wandering!on!the!body!and!outside. The!project!aims!to!activate!in!the!viewer!an!inner!journey!with the!help!of! close]up!body!images!and!photographs!taken!outside.!These!images,!which! come from!different!time,!space!and!bodies, are!grouped!into!sets!that!form! new! wholes.! These! visual! sets! are! accompanied! by! lines! from! various! unpublished!poems!in!order!to!simulate!the!audience!to!activate!them!with! their!own!memories and!create!new!readings.
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Hybrid anatomies: an artistic research on body and perception in relation to actual and virtual
(2022-09) Senan, Nihal Işık
This research conceptualizes the relationship between the actual and the virtual in the context of body and self. The subject-matter of the thesis is based on personal memories of an illness, which caused distortions of reality. Conceptually the research reflects an intersection between sciences and philosophy. The second part of the research is a practical research on the methodologies of producing three-dimensional objects, and their effect on perception.
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I(m)Press : the role of artists’ books in the relationship between body and experimental typography
(2017-05) Günönü, Şeyda
The aim of this project is to approach the relationship between body and artists’ books in the context of an autobiographical narrative. This thesis questions the role of artists’ books in the relationship between body and experimental typography. It investigates why artists prefer to tackle with body issues on artists’ books and how artists implement their reflections on artists’ books. This thesis is accompanied with the installation, which is called I(m)Press. This installation demonstrates a selfreflection about conversations which I received from various people about my body. The installation is the result of a response toward words from conversations. These words are projected on hanging papers by two channels video, which is composed of a recorded reaction against words by my body.
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Identities in flux: a cartography of feminist artistic practice in the Middle East
(2023-06) Kayır, Oğuz Kaan
This thesis explores the fluid and relational forms of body and subjectivity in the feminist contemporary art practice of selected Middle Eastern women artists – Sama Alshaibi, Nezaket Ekici, Mona Hatoum, Amal Kenawy, Shirin Neshat, and Lamia Joreige. As interdisciplinary practitioners whose works traverse between different media such as film, video, performance, and installation, these women’s artistic praxes render a mobile, changeable, and interconnected account of identity via a complex and dynamic interplay between the dualisms of self/other, mind/body, nature/culture, East/West, and human/nonhuman. Since these artists engage in non-fixed and non-dualistic forms of female existence, this thesis employs Deleuze and Guattari’s ontology of becoming and the Deleuzian-inflected new materialist feminisms of Rosi Braidotti, Elizabeth Grosz, and Stacy Alaimo as its theoretical scope. Interweaving the process-oriented, durational, and relational vocabulary of the notion of becoming with Braidotti’s nomadism, Grosz’s corporeality, and Alaimo’s transcorporeality, this study discusses the ways in which these Middle Eastern women artists envisage female subjectivity as an open-ended, plural, and transitory composition that is always on the move, through its relational bonds and linkages with divergent bodies, entities, and geographies. Influenced by the cartographic potential of the theories in question, this thesis concludes by presenting a cartographic imagination of the selected artistic canon as a supplementary method for understanding the malleability and rhizomatic interconnectivity of feminist contemporary art in the Middle East.
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Male nudity in ancient Mesopotamian art
(2012) Girit, Ayşen
This thesis attempts to study nude male representations in Mesopotamian art. It analyzes examples of male nudity in art and textual material from the Protoliterate to the Neo-Assyrian period in Northern and Southern Iraq. It aims to investigate the implications that the male nudity in Mesopotamian art carries and both the social and conceptual aspects that are attributed to male nudity in Mesopotamian society. It argues how nude male representations are embedded within cultural, religious and political aspects of the society. The thesis also shows the context dependent state of male nudity and how it is used as a marker in ancient Mesopotamian art pointing to various identities, physicalities, and political and religious configurations.
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Mapping the body: major conceptions of human embodiment from the West
(1998) Ayaş, Ahmet Murat
Within the humanistic and social sciences of the western world, the human body, the state of being embodied, and the indelible interrelatedness of mind and the body have long been neglected in favour of the mind that is supposedly self-contained. The major reasons for that are claimed to be the philosophy of Cartesianism and mainstream Structuralism that foster the hegemony of dichotomous thought, which asserts that mind and the body are clearly distinct. Deconstructionist tools, however, have shown the impossibility of such an unequivocal distinction as well as pure totality and isolated presence. The main theme of this study is to map the major western conceptions that either implicitly or explicitly have developed notions of the body and embodiment which are in various fashions away from the constraints which have opposed the body to mind or which have considered the body as a closed, universal, nonhistorical biological entity. The notions that are developed in that way have the capacity to show that the body, as much as the psyche and the subject, is both cultural and historical product bearing peculiar natural qualities that position it as both an object and subject with powers of being affected and to affect others. The study concludes with a discussion on the significance and importance of the need to develop an adequate understanding of the body that eventually would enrich the ethical and political actions as well as the approach to art, design and architecture.
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Ölümün gölgesindeki kadın
(Ürün Yayınları, 2013) Bayrakçeken-Akın, Aylin
In Rockaby, life is divided into four parts and aseach part comes to an end the old woman's hope of communication lessens. Therefore, she is pushed into loneliness and unhappiness. All her life becomes the monotonous and repetitive movement of a rocking chair, going back and forth since she never moves out of this chair.. Her self is divided into, consciousness or mind represented by W' s recorded voice, and her body or physical life is symbolized by the rocking chair. From the accounts of the recorded voice it becomes clear that all her life the old woman looked for a companion, a living soul, the presence of whom would give her the comfort she needed. Then, towards the end she realizes that life cannot offer her the warmth, security and darkness she searches for. She wishes to return to her mother's womb or to 'death' where she hopes to find a possible salvation.
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On the relationship between images and words and their relation to body and perception
(2012) İşcan, Candan
Prehistoric man created a mark and throughout the history this mark evolved and bifurcated into two: a word and an image. While images were cherished, words were set apart from images. This thesis attempts to look at the relationship between images and words through seeking their connection to perception and body. It investigates how image-word dichotomy occurred and how this dichotomy obscured the connection between writing and body. The thesis also examines different approaches to overcome this phenomenon in the context of Modern Art. By examining my artwork within this framework, it argues that it is possible to embody the inseparable relationship between images and words through reconnecting with the body’s primordial existence.
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Performing the body : a corporeal site
(2003) Yücel, Erdem
This thesis documents a process through which the body was realized as it exceeds its formal unity and becomes integrated with the space. It includes works of art produced during the process. Concepts of vision and figure are contemplated in relation with body and space. Arte Povera and artists associated with the movement are studied within the framework of ‘site-specificity’ and ‘performance’. Assimilation into space is exemplified through phenomena. Islamic ornamentation is studied in accordance with the concepts of ‘gaze’ and ‘screen’. A work of art is proposed as a conclusion of the process.