In my master’s thesis, I explored space as an ontologically autonomous and generative field, going beyond its understanding as a passive given. I drew on Plato’s notion of Chôra, feminist reinterpretations by Elizabeth Grosz and Louise Burchill, a number of concepts from Deleuze and Guattari such as the rhizome, (de)territorialisation, smooth and striated space, as well as the foundations of speculative ontologies, in order to develop the concept of spatial ontogenesis and the relations between space, matter, form, and object.
In the theoretical part, I developed my own model of a typological matrix as an analytical tool for understanding the emergence of place and object through processes of formal coding, and I examined the artistic object as an affective-evental machine capable of generating new spatial, temporal, and affective configurations. I applied this theoretical model in a typology of artistic objects, which distinguishes between non-singular and singular modes of operation.
In the practical part, I created an artwork based on the typological framework and the theoretical premises of the thesis, testing the possibility that the artistic object can actively produce and transform space.
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