Love Song
2017 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]
Love Song is an essay about romance, passion, obsession, attraction, Eros, intoxication, infatuation, to fall in love and love.
Love songs, as artworks, are almost always directed towards a nameless “you” and this essay wants to talk to you. The text might be seen as a way to create and rewrite something, a performance to understand other performances, a dwelling on past relationships, a love letter, or just a text for me to vent you with others that have been thinking about you. I would love to hear Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Chris Kraus, Beyoncé, Bell Hooks, Anaïs Nin and Taylor Swift talk to each other about art and romances, but because that is an impossible dream I try to connect them and many other thinkers, artists and singers through language. One of them, Roland Barthes once wrote: "Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had worlds instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my worlds."[1]
Love Song is, more than anything else an attempted to touch you, a strategy to better understand the way you made and make me feel.
[1] Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse – Fragments, original: Fragments d’un discours amoureux, 1977, translation from French: Richard Howard, Edition du Seuil, 1978, p. 73.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. 40
Keywords [en]
art, performativity, fine art, language, text, romance, romantic love, performance, you, passion, obsession, I, attraction, Eros, philosophy, intoxication, cultural studies, love letter, infatuation, artwork, love songs, case studies, love
National Category
Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5791OAI: oai:DiVA.org:konstfack-5791DiVA, id: diva2:1098768
Educational program
Fine art (Master)
Supervisors
Examiners
2017-10-192017-05-262017-10-19Bibliographically approved