A Never-Ending Thirst: Artistic Reforms to Neoliberal-Teflon Imperviousness

Situated within visual art practice, this artistic doctoral thesis looks at art as a means to care for the notion of the subject as a nexus of relationality, and asks how the author’s practice of picture-making and artistic ways of knowing can reform what he calls “Neoliberal-Teflon Imperviousness.” The aim of this inquiry is to make suggestions and experiment with the role of artistic research in the recuperation of permeability, imagination, and affectability.