Syrbu H. Tandem Creativity in the Artistic Culture of the Second Half of the 20th Century and the Early 21st Century.

Dissertation for obtaining the Doctor of Philosophy scientific degree in the speciality 034 – “Cultural Studies”. – The Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine. Kyiv, 2025. In the artistic culture of the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, such multidimensional and ambivalent phenomena as “interaction”, “dialogicity”, “communication” and “relation” have acquired a defining spiritual-intellectual, worldview, culturological, and art-historical significance as a result of certain ontological shifts and axiological transformations. General narrative strategies in contemporary artistic culture, since the 20th century, have undergone a certain controversial modification due to the aforementioned fundamental and radical value “inventory”. Therefore, the relational methodological approach of the French culturologist Nicolas Bourriaud plays a key role in our dissertation research: relational theory serves as a metadisciplinary analytical tool of a broad spectrum of research application, through which the internal creative mechanisms of such artistic phenomena as “tandem creativity” and “creative tandem” will be elucidated. According to Nicolas Bourriaud, a defining place in contemporary conceptual art is occupied by polemical intention, a discursive focus on the artwork. Communicative interaction during the direct spiritual-intellectual perception of a conceptual art object is what determines the aesthetic and even existential value of a particular artistic project. In other words, a work of art is a potential opportunity for social interaction. The French researcher defines creative communicative connections in the artistic culture of past eras with the following dialogical chains: human (artist) – God, human (artist) – world, human (artist) – human (recipient). To this traditional triad, Nicolas Bourriaud adds another link: human (recipient) – artwork – human (recipient). That is what the researcher calls the “situation of art”.