The incorporation of other-than-human agencies in artistic practice has become increasingly popular within artistic institutions worldwide. The proliferation of exhibitions involving living things...Show moreThe incorporation of other-than-human agencies in artistic practice has become increasingly popular within artistic institutions worldwide. The proliferation of exhibitions involving living things signals the willingness to challenge traditional understandings of the human and its positioning in the world. Particular scrutiny will be directed towards the hosting space of such creative endeavors, seeking to shed light on how alternative art institutions, rather than conventional art galleries, provide a particularly promising and prolific context for the overall meaning-making process of multispecies artistic interventions; more specifically, it will be described how those latter provide venues where heightened levels of exploration and ethicality can be attained. The aim of the study is to highlight how cultural institutions’ experimentations with multispecies placemaking lay foundations for the emergence of unprecedented community formations, conscious of the complex and interlinked nature of the societies we cohabit. Simply put, the core inquiry that anchors this thesis is: how do alternative art spaces contribute to our understanding of multispecies coexistence in urban communities?Show less
This paper centers the concept of time and its significance in understanding culture, with a specific focus on Balinese architecture. Here, time is explored through its evolving definition within...Show moreThis paper centers the concept of time and its significance in understanding culture, with a specific focus on Balinese architecture. Here, time is explored through its evolving definition within the Western architecture history where it is persistently conceived as an anthropogenic progress measurement also arguing its homogeneity. The concept of modernity is a common rhetoric in architectural time perception, where it places cultures on comparative ends in determining which has caught up to the modernist trend and which is left to be eternally-traditional. Firstly the paper explores a past colonial exhibition as an exemplifier of a linear time perception in the sense that Western architecture discourse has created a hegemonic interpretive methodology in representing non-Western cultures. The paper aims to decenter the frequently used linear time model and introduce alternative time structures using Balinese theories on time, and time perception within architecture. Overall, this paper provides a comprehensive look at the complexity of Balinese temporal values through architecture and tradition.Show less
The seventeenth century, especially in the second half, was a significant transitional era in the history of the study of insects. Some of the most famous names in this regard are Johannes Goedaert...Show moreThe seventeenth century, especially in the second half, was a significant transitional era in the history of the study of insects. Some of the most famous names in this regard are Johannes Goedaert, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Jan Swammerdam. All these naturalists carefully observed insects and turned their findings into illustrations; however, Goedaert and Merian, who possessed excellent painting skills, were described primarily as artists by certain researchers, while Swammerdam was described as a scientist. This phenomenon forms the research problem of this thesis, expressed in a question about the connection of artistic skills of entomologists and recognition of their scientific input. The objective of this research is to determine to what extent is the artistic level of the entomologists' illustrations of influence on the level to which they are considered scientists or artists by contemporary researchers. The methods of the research were data analysis of scientific illustrations history and biographical information of the entomologists as well as comparison of the three entomologists' illustrations of the transformation of insects with the use of the theory of the picture by Gabriele Werner. The key results of the research include the findings that the opinions of the researchers could be influenced by the artistic value of the illustrations and the reputation of the entomologists as artists and scientists. The results bring to the conclusion that although art and science go hand-in-hand and complement and reinforce each other, certain aspects of entomologists' life paths can contribute to the fact that researchers attribute them to only one type of activity.Show less
