Content analysis on trauma and uneasiness in video-art

Human encodes and accumulates the traumas throughout his life that he acquired through external intervention and also experienced with his own choice. The most important motivation that manages the behavior of the individual can be explained as the desire of the person to realize himself. There is a nonignorable infinite relationship process among the self-expression reality of the artist in the art product and the sense of empathy of his audience with him, their finding a piece of themselves in it and also their sense of comparing. In this thesis, the works determined from the works with traumatic expression in the fields of photography, film and video art are examined and the dialogue process between the artist, his work and his audience is reviewed. Considering the choices and methods of the person, it has been aimed the evaluation of these traumatic accumulations' effects of change, transformation and reconstruction on the person, culture and society together. The primary purpose of this research is to examine what trauma phenomenon wants to tell the audience about art works that contains traumatic expressions. In the first section; Investigations of the phenomenons of "fear, anxiety, uncanniness and disgust" were handled with academic research methods and explained with examples on the basis of trauma. In the second section, relationships and effects between trauma recordings of memory and the person's memory and social and cultural memory are examined. The topics discussed in the first two sections are presented in the third section with examples of photographs, films and videos. Keywords: Trauma, Memory, Discomfort on İmage, Uncanny, Pain, Grief, Anxiety in Video Art