Indeterminate Place. Site-specific art in the age of global de-territorialization.

The aim of this research is to investigate, through the lenses of art, themes of contemporary life such as nomadism, de-territorialization, out-of-placeness and de-personalization--that is, some of the most essential aspects that define the post- modern and the post-industrial condition. An art that aspires to engage with topics of presence, place, and movement, has to be participant-oriented and site-oriented in order to reflect and express the real conditions of a body in a specific space. Such components as interaction, participation, comprehensiveness, immersion, and perceptiveness are also required artistic strategies that best assure the purpose of a site-oriented art. This work is also an inquiry into the concept of Indetermination, which is the quality that informs my work overall. Indetermination is not yet an artistic strategy but rather a structural component. It condenses and projects ideas of differentiation, multiplicity, spatiality, ambiguity, openness, and anarchism. This work informs the spatial-temporal qualities of an architectural environment, where the movement of a body in space takes place. The goal of this thesis is that of experimenting and verifying moments of location inside that heterotopic entity (Michel Foucault) and de-located site (Jean Baudrillard) represented by the gallery space, with the purpose of activating a dialectical consid- eration of the production of space (Henri Lefebvre). In other words, through dispersed micro-narratives of rhizomatic territorialization (Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari), through dialectical oppositions demarcating fragments of places and non- places (Miwon Kwon), I aspire to stimulate a reciprocal reflection between myself and an audience upon the spatial and temporal qualities of the sites we inhabit in our lives, in this age of mobility and nomadism