Papers by Ralph Klewitz, PhD
The paper discusses insights from a post-disciplinary artist who reflects on his artistic practic... more The paper discusses insights from a post-disciplinary artist who reflects on his artistic practice. This case study is written from an autoethnographical perspective, in a narrative evocative voice, contextualised with Moon's strategies of reflective learning and the Socratic method. Adapted on Moon's suggestions and based on the Socratic discourse of self-examination, semi-structured questions for the self-reflection have been prompted whilst reading texts of Bergson's process philosophy. These questions have then been scrutinised if and how they are relevant to the artist's practice. The artist also reflected on his emotions during the reflective writing process and in retrospective thereof which further developed the writing process and content selection of the self-reflection. The general aim of the subjective reflection was to verbalise the complex layers of meanings that are inherent in his artistic processes. The author anticipates that the self-reflection could serve as a case study for students in mainly, but not exclusively, tertiary art education. Ideally, the research could be a guidance, or inspiration, for students to find their own sources for reflection such as writings, artworks or exhibitions, which could trigger questions about their individual artistic processes and outcomes. Based on the artist's experiences, in the context of his ongoing doctoral research, such self-reflections could enhance other students' and artists' metacognitions as competencies to better communicate their own artistic practices.
For decades I experienced the verification of readability as constraints in exploring the potenti... more For decades I experienced the verification of readability as constraints in exploring the potentials of experimental display typography. To solve this rational and emotional problem, I initiated in 2005 a self-directed artistic enquiry.
Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts Practice (MA CAP), Fachbereich Fine Arts, Hochschule der Kün... more Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts Practice (MA CAP), Fachbereich Fine Arts, Hochschule der Künste Bern, Schweiz
Books by Ralph Klewitz, PhD
Freedom to Create, 2021
I wrote this compendium for you, who wants to independently learn and practice anything related t... more I wrote this compendium for you, who wants to independently learn and practice anything related to art, design, and craft-making. Essentially, I offer you guidance to handle your creative freedom by engaging your thinking with affirmative prompts, followed by questions. Your answers could become your tentative roadmap in your creative journey, with the option to change directions at any time during your travel. While compiling my thoughts, I emphasised the idea of putting you in the driver’s seat to help you set off and pursue your very own journey to create. Enjoy and celebrate your process and results, always!
Thesis Chapters by Ralph Klewitz, PhD
PhD Thesis, 2023
In this commentary, I design, implement, and evaluate new ways of writing about art. For this pur... more In this commentary, I design, implement, and evaluate new ways of writing about art. For this purpose, I contextualise and interrelate four video artworks that I produced between 2013 and 2018. Scaffolding my research framework, in a first inductive research phase, I scope the works and provisionally conclude that the pieces connect through the concepts of Time, Repetition, Absurdity, and Play, and aesthetically, they link by improvisation, lo-tech, static camera, short duration, and linearity. In a second deductive research phase, I connect these findings with concepts and artefacts within and outside the artworld. I then critically question my voices as an artist and as a researcher and evaluate the potentials and limitations of language which I apply in my analysis that I base on a structuralist paradigm. Specifically, I question the correlations between signifiers in the artworks and the above concepts and aesthetics. Challenging the stability of meaning, I then scrutinise my writing through a Derridean, post-structuralist lens, and suggest how different authors would reach alternative insights, had they implemented alternative standpoints, addressed different concepts and aesthetic characteristics. In the final phase, I demonstrate how a poem that I wrote offers deeper insights into one of the artworks, thereby proposing that poetic writing can expand an artwork experience as well. I conclude how and why my research contributes new knowledge to the conceptual and aesthetic discourses in which I contextualised my artworks, how analytical and poetic writing can expand access when observing and interpreting art, why and how language has limitations in comparison to holistic art experiences, and how my research can be used as a methodological tool to write about art. I conclude that my findings primarily add new knowledge to discourses in art practice, art writing, art education, and to the wider art world.
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Papers by Ralph Klewitz, PhD
Books by Ralph Klewitz, PhD
Thesis Chapters by Ralph Klewitz, PhD