Under The Sign of Regret
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Summary, in English
My research looks at regret as an aesthetic mode and as a methodological tool. It recuperates the positive qualities of regret without overvaluing it as a great gain. This hovering between loss and gain sets up the research as a tactic against the achievement driven and production principled art-field.
The hypothesis is to consider regret as a generative force (one that seeds and propels forward), as a bittersweet drama of adjustments (between who we are and who we aspired to be, or between what we make and our shortcomings), and ultimately, as a way of questioning perspective itself (distance, visibility, point of view, and, most importantly, time).
After setting up a conceptual map of regret in the introductory chapter I turn my attention away from the psychological and sociological origins of regret towards its effects in the world, namely the effects it has as a creative force in the arts. I am arguing, on the one hand, that regret, as a sub-category of depression, is at the core of how the contemporary individual operates socially. And, on the other hand, I am making a distinction between feeling regret and using regret as a methodological drive.
Reading artistic forms and experiences through a lens of regret does not mean that the works analysed are about regret, or narrate a story of regret, but rather that they embody and thus help exemplify some of the traits, characteristics, and modes that emerge from considering regret conceptually.
I have identified two particular characteristics of producing under the sign of regret: suspended agency and ghostly haunting. Each of these characteristics are taken up in individual chapters that define and ground these modalities of production (principally through the methodologies and tropes employed in my own artistic practice as well as other selected examples), while continuing to mull over the different shades of meaning of regret as a generative force.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2019-08-04
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Doctoral studies and research in fine and performing arts
Issue
23
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Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University
Ämne
- Arts
Nyckelord
- Visual Arts
- Regret
- Psychoanalysis
- Affect Theory
- Creativity
- Aesthetics
Status
Published
Handledare
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1653-8617
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-223-6
Försvarsdatum
20 september 2019
Försvarstid
10:00
Försvarsplats
Malmö Art Academy, Bergsgatan 29
Opponent
- Doreen Mende (Doctor)