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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00749
- Thesis Title
- Arte y precariedad. Nociones. Preceptos. Apegos. Contextos. Experiencias / Art and precariousness. Notions. Precepts. Bents. Contexts. Experiences.
- Author
- Arturo Cancio Ferruz
- E-mail
- arturo.cancio AT ehu.eus
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Ph. D.
- Year
- 2018
- Number of Pages
- 400
- University
- University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
- Thesis Supervisor
- Concepción Elorza ibáñez de Gauna
- Supervisor e-mail
- mconcepcion.elorza AT ehu.eus
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- Spanish and English
- Department / Discipline
- Department of Art and Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts
- Copyright Ownership
- CC- Attribution, not commercial, share alike 3.0 Spain
- Languages Familiar to Author
- Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Italian
- URL where full thesis can be found
- addi.ehu.es/bitstream/handle/10810/26679/TESIS_CANCIO_FERRUZ_ARTURO.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
- Keywords
- Precariousness, art, labour market, economic activity, artistic practice, aesthetics of precariousness
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- A sheer interdisciplinary will motivated me to elaborate on this thesis
that mainly tackles the problem of precarious labor in the field of art. I
gathered very diverse structural materials from philosophy, politics, sociology,
economics, and art to propose their confluence in a superstructure.
To refer to the latter, I used the term collage, which describes both the
technique and the outcome of a juxtaposition of significant elements, which
can efficiently be used in all stages of qualitative research. A collage is an
artistic technique distinctive of modern art, which consists in the assembling
of a diversity of elements to obtain a unified whole. It offered me the
opportunity to propose this study, which is composed of six distinctive parts.
These parts maintain relations of interdependence among themselves,
in the whole submitted as a thesis but, at the same time, this superstructure
provides some independence to each of the parts, which maintain their
infrastructural features and their particular theoretical frameworks,
methodologies, objectives, and hypotheses.
However, in this research, I supported the central assumption that,
despite the value society and institutions attach to art, the vast majority of
people who perform a professional artistic activity do not receive a fair or
balanced compensation, which allows them to lead a dignified life.
Besides, I focused on two fundamental objectives; 1) to obtain
quantifiable empirical evidence to account for the precarious situation that
characterizes a majority of contemporary artists in Spain and the Basque Country, and 2) to locate and produce artistic proposals that offer appropriate questions or answers to the subject matter proposed.