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Özet
Okşin, Ezgi Ecem. Evaluation of Cultural Object’s Geographical Relations in the Context of
Art.
MA Artwork Report, Ankara, 2017.
In this report titled as ‘Evaluation of Cultural Object’s Geographical Relations in the Context
of Art’, ontological and discoursive attributions of the relations between cultural object’s self,
culture as a referential system, history and present on the platform of art is emphasized.
Cultural object, always carries the bringins of belonging along with the bringins of being an
object; However, the belonging of the object must not be evaluated only in the context of its
geography with the analogical nature of the qualities of its being and the continuing or
standardized practical possibilities brought forth, but also the different possibilities of being
brought about by its temporality. The geographical relation of the cultural object may
represent a physical position on the earth but primarily it represents a presence platform for/of
object because of the cultural object’s and even the culture’s changeable or transformational
relations with time existence possibilities, principals and perceptions change on the spacetime
platform which is called the present. Therefore it can be said that cultural object’s
geographical relation can be explained today by its belonging to a physical location and also
evaluating its positions and expansions in different platforms of presence (eg. Art platform,
cyber space).
In the first part of the report, the cultural object has been examined as objectified by living in
context of culture and in the context of culture and object, cultural object’s states of being
have been evaluated. Semantics, semiological, anthropological and socio-psychological
conditions have been explained in terms of understanding its effect and bringing to the art
platform. The cultural object has been examined with a comparative manner in terms of
today’s potentials, contemporary optics and perceptual practices as 'a referent to a different
temporal and spatial presence'. With examples from the platform of art, the semantic change
between the cultural object’s object being and the cultural being is explored. In the second part, ontological emphasis of the art platform was first made in order to
determine the expansions of the object being studied in the first part of the report by its
associative and existential states; The discursive possibilities of the cultural object on the art
level have been evaluated in the context of the examples compiled from artists' works that
have adopted different approaches to cultural being and its possibilities. By approaching the
cultural object’s own internality as a geographical location and taking into consideration its
contemporary perceptual state, the way it is experienced in present is experimented and
examined with artworks in the context of art.