PhD defence: Marianne Bertelsen

The thesis takes an empirical starting point is the local context of a Danish art school and global attitudes to cultural policy-making and art education. These attitudes, in turn, carry the focus of the thesis across the global world of art, involving the local context of a Chinese art school. Moving away from the somewhat simplified conflicts of autonomy and heteronomy, the global and the local, and the traditional and the contemporary, the three main themes of autonomy, time, and space serve as essential prisms through which to understand and explain the everyday experiences of contemporary art at art schools today.
As the main outcome the thesis presents the concepts of “antinomies of autonomy”, globally connected but locally present contemporaneity, and the “heterochronies” of specific space-times. These socio-cultural dynamics are then appropriated as a means of rethinking and explaining some of the structural features in the world of art and the cultural developments evolving around the increased globalization of and changes in the role of the artist.
 
Supervisor:
Professor Timon Beyes
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary supervisor:
Associate Professor Christopher John Mathieu
Department of Sociology
Lund University
 
Assessment Committee:
Professor Robin Holt (Chair)
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Sigrid Røyseng
Department of Communication and Culture
BI - Norwegian Business School

Associate Professor R. Daniel Wadhwani
Eberhardt School of Business
University of the Pacific

Thesis:
The thesis is available here.
 
Reception:
The Doctoral School of Economics and Management will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence at the Department of International Economics and Management, Porcelænshaven 24A, 2nd floor.