Potential of the Gap

Torell, Lisa

dc.contributor.advisor	Jakobsen, Henrik Plenge
dc.contributor.author	Torell, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-12T09:57:27Z
dc.date.available	2019-02-12T09:57:27Z
dc.date.issued	2018-05-28
dc.description.abstract	Potential of the Gap has been about method and place. In site-specific, contextual or relational art, the relationships between and relationships to are critical to the critical artistic licence. That is, relations between or to man, object, situation and context. I have engaged with the relationship between place, language and identity in relation to systems and logic. Convention and function. It has taken place in, about and alongside the public space and semi-public space. The work has been performative, with place and audience as a material in it self, and the gap as a tool and artistic device for challenging what is taken for granted, exposing structures, to enable a rethink and thinking afresh. In addition to developing and strengthening the method, I also wanted to review the terminology of the site-specific field, to make it more accessible and enable multidisciplinary interaction. To simplify certain concepts and to add others in order to more easily be able to share process and result.	en_US
dc.description.doctoraltype	Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid	en_US
dc.description.popularabstract	Potential of the Gap has been about method and place. In site-specific, contextual or relational art, the relationships between and relationships to are critical to the critical artistic licence. That is, relations between or to man, object, situation and context. I have engaged with the relationship between place, language and identity in relation to systems and logic. Convention and function. It has taken place in, about and alongside the public space and semi-public space. The work has been performative, with place and audience as a material in it self, and the gap as a tool and artistic device for challenging what is taken for granted, exposing structures, to enable a rethink and thinking afresh. In addition to developing and strengthening the method, I also wanted to review the terminology of the site-specific field, to make it more accessible and enable multidisciplinary interaction. To simplify certain concepts and to add others in order to more easily be able to share process and result. The Gap is a word which describes an (often) unwanted state between two states. It can refer to a gap in the charger, as in the appliance being charged not getting a supply of electricity. Or that the door won’t shut properly; there is a gap. The gap “works” when it occurs as a contrast to other. It offers an opening and an alternative. It creates the space for alienation and a kind of space of appearance to quote Hanna Arendt. Art is already such a space, artistic research another. Where all things can be and not be. The gap amplifies the movement as well as the relationship to one thing and the other. Thus, for me it is a metaphor describing something greater. A potential, which through its appearance not only exposes structures, but also enables perspectives from which to understand and renegotiate. Both around that which has been, and that which could become. A crack in the asphalt, emphasising and indicating. It is and does, representing and acting all at once. Potential of the Gap, have been artistic research through: art pieces: performative site-related installations, performances, preformances, video, sculptures, sound and through: articles, texts, books, projects, discussions, workshops, lectures. A few of them are included in the dissertation It includes the books, articles, texts: Plats till Plats, 9 konstnärers reflektion kring platsrelaterat arbete, Ed:Lisa Torell (2016) medverkande konstnärer: Kajsa Dahlberg, Henrik Andersson, Annika Eriksson, Martin Tebus, Magnus Thierfelder, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Hans Rosenström and Eva Arnqvist ISBN: 978-91-637-8863-5 Place to place, 9 artists reflection about site-specificity and place related process. Ed: Lisa Torell (2017) artists: Kajsa Dahlberg, Henrik Andersson, Annika Eriksson, Martin Tebus, Magnus Thierfelder, Johanna Gustafsson Fürst, Hans Rosenström and Eva Arnqvist ISBN: 978-82-690199-0-2 Article "Figure 2224" for the publication: Between Places (2016) Editors: Naz Cugouglu and Susanne Ewerlöf Text: On Highway 25, Shared Society Means a Common Debt, How We Were Thinking and With What? "for the publikation: Inte det molnet \| Not That Cloud (2017) ISBN 978-91-983195-3-8 The article: Närmandet, ironi och Metod, for Paletten Art Magazine #3 2015 #301 ........................................................................... Potential of the Gap is a project that have been developed within the frame for the Norwegian Artistic Research programme (NARP) at UiT, Tromsø Acamdey of Contemporary Art and Writing 2014-2018 ISBN:978-82-690199-3-3 (Trykt Dr.Avh) / ISBN 978-82-690199-4-0(E-bok, Dr.avh) Graphic Design: Jonas Williamsson. Proofreading Åsa-Linnea Strand, Linda McAllister, Anna Nyström.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	UiT The Arctic university of Norway FAculty of fine arts, The Swedish visual Art Found, IASPIS support for Swedish artists exhibiting abroad, STIFTELSEN LÄNGMANSKA KULTURFONDEN, Norwegian Artistic Research Program	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10037/14676
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	UiT The Arctic University of Norway	en_US
dc.relation.haspart	<p>Paper I: Torell, L. (Edt.). (2016). <i>Plats till plats – 9 konstärers reflektion kring platsrelaterat arbete</i>. Stockholm, Konstfrämjandet. ISBN 978-91-637-8863-5. Also available at <a href=https://issuu.com/researchanddevelopment/docs/plats_till_plats> https://issuu.com/researchanddevelopment/docs/plats_till_plats. </a><p> <p>Paper II: Torell, L. (Edt.). (2017). <i>Place to place: 9 Artistic Reflection about Site-specificity and Place-related Processes</i>. Stockholm, Konstfrämjandet. ISBN 978-91-982834-4-0. <p> <p>Paper III: Torell, L. (2016). Figure 2224. In Cugouglu & Ewerlöf (Edt.). <i>Between Places. Reflections on identity and place</i>. (p. 36-45). Norrköping, Sweden, Verkstad konsthall. Also available at <a href= https://issuu.com/creativecukurcuma/docs/between_places_final_ebook> https://issuu.com/creativecukurcuma/docs/between_places_final_ebook. </a><p> <p>Paper IV: Torell, L. (2017). On Highway 25, Shared Society Means a Common Debt, How We Were Thinking and With What?. In Fürst & Kaur (Edt.). <i>Inte det molnet \| Not That Cloud</i>. Stockholm, Mount Analogue. ISBN 978-91-983195-3-8. <p> <p>Paper V: Torell, L. (2015). Närmandet, ironi och metod. <i>Paletten Art Journal, 3</i>(301), 2–8. Also available at <a href=https://paletten.net/>https://paletten.net/. </a>
dc.rights.accessRights	openAccess	en_US
dc.rights.holder	Copyright 2018 The Author(s)
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dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)	en_US
dc.subject	site-related art	en_US
dc.subject	performance	en_US
dc.subject	site-related performance	en_US
dc.subject	site-specificity	en_US
dc.subject	art in the public space	en_US
dc.subject	site situ	en_US
dc.subject	artistic research	en_US
dc.subject	installation	en_US
dc.subject	video	en_US
dc.subject	art-terminology	en_US
dc.subject	VDP::Humanities: 000::History of art: 120::Modern history of the arts: 129	en_US
dc.subject	VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kunsthistorie: 120::Moderne kunsthistorie: 129	en_US
dc.title	Potential of the Gap	en_US
dc.type	Doctoral thesis	en_US
dc.type	Doktorgradsavhandling	en_US