Anna Jensen
Encyclopedia of In-Betweenness
An exploration of a collective artistic research practice
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Encyclopedia of
In-Betweenness presents art as a
socially prominent phenomenon that is always in a state of becoming. It
suggests that art is on the front line of perceiving new emerging ideas and
ideologies while it also impacts and creates them. This means that art is
obliged to seek what we, in fact, cannot yet know.
Mapping the entanglements of the contemporary
art world the thesis provides new perspectives on the relational nature of our
being and documents a turn in the contemporary art world: how collective
practices, site-specific and process-led approaches have emerged from the
margins to the mainstream. The thesis presents how collective art projects can
function as research platforms providing new knowledge and places for
encounters and uses exhibition-making and curating as methods.
The form of the dissertation – an encyclopedia
– is part of the methodology. The thematically color-coded entries map the
current discourses, but they also point out the hierarchical conception of
knowledge itself.