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Showing 1 to 20 of 453 for “"Art Practice"”.
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Automatism and art practice
… an understanding of the use of automatism in the practice of art derived from an interrelationship between the material process of art and critical text. As these practices converge in their vocabularies of the psychic and the somatic, they formulate a discourse of interpretation. The critical …
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Expanding community art practice: an analysis of new forms of productive site within community art practice
This practice-based research is a reflection upon a community art practice mediated via the social use of digital technologies such as social media, Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and open data. In combining existing community art methods and methodologies, with those taken from the social …
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Poiesis and Obstruction in Art Practice
… before’, in the context of obstruction in studio practice. It poses the question ‘Is there a methodology that engages with obstruction which in turn calls new work’? In this thesis, the concept of poiesis emerging from the late Dr. Murray Cox’s ‘Aeolian Mode’, is analyzed alongside a concept of …
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Trauma, Performativity, and Subjectivity in Art Practice
This is a practice based PhD of predominantly video works/installations which seek to examine, alongside the accompanying reflective writing on these works, a particular dynamic set up between the artwork and the spectator which allows a rethinking of the model of the subject's relation to the …
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Following the Turn: Mapping as Material Art Practice
Following the Turn: Mapping As Material Art Practice investigates my artistic practice and MFA research based in London, Ontario. This dossier of research elements includes: an extended artist’s statement, a documentation of artistic practice and development, and a selection of in-process and …
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Beside Oneself: Towards a Participatory Feminist Art Practice
… my dissertation in studio-based visual art is part of a larger discussion about the role of art and the viewer-participant within social and political systems. Working with queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of beside and what she calls its useful resistance to narratives, as …
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Aramaic Incantation Bowls and Contemporary Ceramic Art Practice
… Aramaic incantation bowls, contemporary ceramic art practice, and critical theory. Scholarly attention surrounding the Aramaic Bowls remains largely confined within the philological disciplines of translation, linguistics and grammar. In contrast, through critical and creative approaches, this …
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Towards 'Economies of Generosity' in contemporary live art practice
… thesis, performance theory and the accompanying practice as research are utilised, along with anthropological and philosophical analysis, in order to examine how gift intersects with live art practice. The ways in which it is made and encountered in contemporary (predominantly UK) society are of …
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Valerie Desmore s refusal(s): art practice as biomythography
The South African-born British artist and fashion designer Valerie Elizabeth Helene Desmore, who is said to have risen to fame in South Africa in 1942 at the age of sixteen, left South Africa in 1945 to pursue an art career in the United Kingdom. This move was prompted by the infamous South African …
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Haptic cinema: an art practice on the interactive digital media tabletop
… than this. There is a significant history of artists experimenting with the moving image outside of its familiar setting in a movie theatre. These investigations are often referred to as "expanded cinema". This dissertation proposes a genre of expanded cinema called haptic cinema, an approach …
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How do I look? Viewing, embodiment, performance, showgirls, and art practice.
… her live performance, her representation in art, film, and images, as well as how showgirls articulate their own experiences and my own pleasures in viewing showgirls can yield in terms of a revitalised language around viewing, pleasure, and embodiment. I look at the showgirl, and the debates …
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Negotiation-as-active-knowing: an approach evolved from relational art practice.
… the roles of and relationships between artist and participant-other in social art practice. Negotiation is implicit in art practice, and is often used without elucidation of its exact processes. This research addresses the gap through an articulation of negotiation that brings both …
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Contingencies : visualizing tensions between contemporary critical theory and Canadian art practice
… some of the most urgent debates in contemporary art history. Focussing on deconstruction, formalism, and cultural theory as critical methodologies within the theory of art, it examines a range of cultural expressions and contemporary currents of thought relative to the problem of vision and …
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Heritage As Process: Constructing The Historical Child’s Voice Through Art Practice
… takes place in the present (2010). In heritage practices there are opposing discourses and positions. Artists add another voice to the discourses of heritage and have been described as ‘critical figure[s] in the heritage process’ (Howard, 1998) because they present institutional critique, craft …
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Acts of hospitality: Relations between ‘guest’ and ‘host’ as art practice
My research centres on my experiences as an artist, a ‘guest’ and ‘host’ in rural communities in Ireland, where building relationships at a local level has revealed wider notions of hospitality towards ‘outsiders’ on a national and international scale. Over time, it’s become clear that the act of …
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Noodle, Noodle, Cat: Extra-Subjective Agency in Web-based Art practice
This research investigates the complexities of artistic authorship under the production conditions of the web. It is driven by a fascination with the possibilities of expanding the authorial sphere of the artwork to include the productive capacities of other subjectivities, entities and processes. …
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An Examination of the Place of Fresco in Contemporary Art Practice
This dissertation is the outcome of a practice-based research inquiry into innovations in processes and materials leading to a contemporary fresco. The research is in three parts: 1) the textual establishment of a historical framework for fresco; 2) an exhibition, Channelling Time, at the Lethaby …
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Anticipated retrospection: manifesting pastness in moving image, an art practice enquiry
… in moving image from the perspective of artists’ film and video and asks: "if material qualities are implicated in memory as pastness, how can this be made apperceptible using art practice?” The study contributes to the understanding of temporal and material experience in contemporary art …
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A veiling of identity : anamorphosis as double vision in contemporary art practice
… trope of anamorphosis as a formal dimension of art practice and as a critical tool for exploring subjective vision. Anamorphosis is a technique of perspective that produces a distorted image that may only be corrected and made coherent when viewed from a specific angle. In order to re-form an …
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Saying It Through The Maternal Body: understanding maternal subjectivity through art practice
… a maternal subjectivity be understood through art practice? The research focused on three themes: fragmentation, invisibility and boundaries. Initially, these themes were researched in the context of the maternal body and the abject. The engagement with the maternal body has led to expanding …
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