Dissertation PhD

Teleportation & Transformation

2024

Creator Eirini Sourgiadaki

Participating Institution ZHdK, Forschungsschwerpunkt Transdisziplinarität, Zürich, CH

Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung, Linz, AT (gegründet 1947)

Supervision Florian Dombois

Dr. Marcel Bleuler

MediumPrint, Broschüre

DimensionsBuchgrösse (HxB): 29 × 21 cm, 297 Seiten

Titles

UntertitelApproaching the "impossible" through storytelling and technologies

UntertitelA source book for artists in crisis and beyond

beschreibender TitelDissertation for obtaining the Academic Degree PhD

DescriptionThe research project explores the human fascination with teleportation and transformation, tracing its presence in myths, stories, and arts as an expression of the desire to transcend the limitation of human nature. Approached from an artist's perspective, the study engages with storytelling as a primary method, untethered by judgment, shame or guilt and fueled by memory and imagination. The investigation begins from a standpoint of unity rather than separation, progressively unveiling the researcher's existential inquiries.
Teleportation and transformation narratives typically unfold in three stages: the initial slate, the transformative moment, and the resultant condition. This research focuses on the transformative moment - a boundary where reality and fiction blur - explored through meetings with children, individuals with schizophrenia, and people in love. Elaboration on the collected material along with investigation of the habitat and self-investigation, have been the main approaches on the theme.
The work contributes lo speculative, transdisciplinary artistic research, offering insights into the metaphysical aspect of daily life and the in-between moments of teleportation and transformation.
It positions itself as a resource for people interested in exploring non-normative states of being and becoming, promoting interconnectedness and understanding through a blend of low-tech immersive arts, literature and installation. It may function as a portal: an emergency exit for artists and art students in crisis, and as an entrance for others who find themselves accepting crisis as anormal state of being. As a portal, it aspires to become the crossroad or meeting passage of a potential imaginative community that shares its values.

Object numberDKB-2024-C01-001

DepartmentArchiv ZHdK

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Credit LineZürcher Hochschule der Künste / Archiv