Çok boyutlu ortamlarda liminal ritüeller ve transformasyon

This thesis aims to investigate and analyze the recent history of the relation between liminality and artistic production and reception, as well as current modes of creation and utilization of liminal transformation in art making. Through a review of a wide range of differing transformational aims and actions of various western artistic movements, artists and groups, it seeks to answer the questions of whether and how art can initiate and implement change and transformation. To this end, following an anthropologic introduction to ritual in general, the concepts of liminal and liminoid rituals have been presented as anthropologist Victor Turner has theorized. Turner's assertion of artistic experience being liminoid has been challenged and a contrasting suggestion has been put forward. This contradiction has been strengthened through examination and exemplification of various artistic endeavors and inquiries with differing and powerful liminal aims in the face of different issues of their social, cultural and ideological milieus. Following the analysis of chosen liminal examples of modern and postmodern art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, it has been concluded that contrary to Turner's suggestions, artmaking has a tremendous capacity of liminal transformation. More importantly today, not only is it able to achieve liminal transformation, but the domain of art is also seen to assume the ambiguous attributes of the liminal space itself and may be the only remaining space for initiating change and transformation against the monopolized power structure of the spectacle dominated neo-liberal system.