المضامين الفكرية في فن الفيديو الفلسطيني

Abstract

Abu Issa, Renad (2023). Intellectual content in Palestinian video art. Master's Thesis, Palestine Polytechnic University, (Supervisor: Dr. Nasr Jawabra) . This study dealt with a contemporary artistic phenomenon, which is video art, where it aimed to reveal the most prominent types of video art dealt with by the Palestinian artist, and monitor the most important intellectual content included in the Palestinian video art, to reveal the appropriateness of the content and message of the artwork with the artistic medium created, i.e. "video art". the study came in five chapters, started by the researcher with the first chapter, which was allocated to the methodological framework of the study, in which the problem of the study, its importance and objectives, in addition to its limits and terminology, and then came the second chapter, which was allocated to the theoretical framework of the study, where it came in three basic researches. the researcher addressed in the first topic the content in the work of art and its relationship to the basic elements of the work of art (matter, form and expression), and presented in the second paper a historical overview of the emergence of video art and the most important factors of its development in addition to mentioning the most important types and the most important international video artists and their most prominent works. the researcher highlighted in the third paper the most prominent stations that affected the development of the Palestinian art movement starting with the first intifada through the Oslo peace treaties, up to the second intifada and the most important institutions that were the best supporter and supporter of post-modern arts in Palestine. the third chapter was devoted to mentioning the methodology followed in the current study, and the fourth chapter was devoted to the analysis of the most important works of video art in Palestine, where the researcher dealt with 13 works of art and came up with the results of dealing with them in the fifth chapter, the most important of which was: the Palestinian artist was able to keep pace with the technological, cultural and global development and progress in the world of arts, where he employed the video medium to express many intellectual content, the Palestinian artist through the video medium in most of his works with political content and sometimes included complex political and social messages and content. the Palestinian artist was able to express many social content and different topics, the Palestinian artist used the video viii medium as a tool to express the feminist movement, and he also called for liberation in some of them, whether from religious or social restrictions. the works of the Palestinian artist video included many post-modern strategies in his presentation of its intellectual contents such as absurdity, futility, conflict, emptiness, impossibly and nowhere, allowed the video medium through its possibilities provided by the artist to manipulate images and videos to provoke the recipient to read those video works. the Palestinian artist was able to put up many social contents that carry political content lined up, the video is an art born of passion where the artist can through sound, image and movement highlight his feelings to the recipient, the Palestinian artist employed three forms of video art to express its intellectual content. the Palestinian artist succeeded in exploiting the energy of the video medium through the process of hybridization between the video and other artistic media such as the image, the works of the Palestinian artist in the field of video have not been without the element of humor and ridicule on which some artists based the idea of their video work.