The Transformative Doing – Aesthetics of Performative

The transformative potentiality of art is inherent in its aesthetics, which process common representational into liminal and simultaneously disengages the space for constative interventions. It is to interweave act and objective conditions into situations in which present is to be unfolded beyond representations.

I understand act as manifestation of one’s own mind power and performance of the mind in relation to the reality – energia.

In Live Installations, I take everyday materials and art materials into the zone of artistic doing. Within that, “I” and the materials are removed from the general purpose of existence and become things. The synonymy of “I” and materials in an act conceive potentiality to grow into unconditional, thus occurrences set paths towards the transition of undetermined, independent forms of singular.

In Painting, doing manifests as organic occurrences, which engender liminal space that lays in-between habitual one and another possible reality. And the occurrences are true selves of the liminal space. Painting in our time is to be understood as the leftover of performative time zone, an independent space, where non-representational reality occurs within singular mode of doing…in time and space.

In life doing, the conditions and I merge in flow into liminal, where the act is the transformative energia in space-time-continuity.

dolanbay

Artist Biography

Dolanbay is a Berlin-based artist of Turkish-British background. He studied 3D Design at the University of Central England, Birmingham, and Mixed Media Fine Art at the University of Westminster, London. As a visiting student at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), he conducted research and wrote his dissertation on New German Painting and its socio-political context.

Since the early 2000s, Dolanbay has developed an artistic inquiry across painting, performance art and sound doings, alongside collaborative and artist-led projects. His work has been presented internationally.

Within his practice, a common aesthetic emerges, rooted in a methodology developed through the exploration of performativity. The act is energeia: potential becoming actual through doing, unfolding in time and space through non-knowledge and non-representation.

For Dolanbay, doing is not the execution of an idea; it is where the possibility of the work begins.