In my thesis, I explore the impact of absence, transience, absurdity, and the lack of information through which the viewer might construct a coherent whole, on the viewer’s experience. In this context, the experience emerges as a subjective reconstruction of meaning, situated in a space beyond rationally structured reality. It is an interpretation grounded in the realm of affect, imagination, and free thought. The theoretical part draws on concepts of ambiguity, experiences that unfold at the threshold between the known and the unknown, the disintegration of reality and the slide into the unreal, symbolism, and the psychological states that accompany these sensations or arise from them. I am particularly interested in the expressive potential of these concepts in the context of artistic expression and interpretation. The practical part consists of the installation Something once, which contains a costume from the original performance Three hundred days of poetry. The performance is relevant to the thesis as it thematically engages with the very questions addressed in the theoretical part. The installation deepens these questions through a reference to the notion of aura, as defined by Walter Benjamin.
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