Posthumānā domāšana mākslas darba pētniecībā: Inetas Freidenfeldes mazās ontogrāfijas
Post-Humanist Thought in Artwork Research: The Tiny Ontographies of Ineta Freidenfelde

Summary/Abstract: In this research, post-humanist theories (performativity approach, object-oriented ontology, new materialism, agential realism) are applied to reveal aspects of art creation, based on the case study of paintings by Ineta Freidenfelde. Based on semi-structured and unstructured interviews and artwork analysis, the article reveals the ways a work of art is a performative process embedded in the network of human and non-human agents. Among them, small life forms of urban wildlife are prominent, forming relationships with the artist and the environment, as well as placed within a liminal space that destabilizes the common binaries of urban/countryside and sacred/profane as the artist explores the possibilities offered by re-imagining of orthodox iconography.

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