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Showing 1 to 20 of 7194 for “"Becoming"”.
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Becoming and Un-Becoming
My work is about becoming and un-becoming. I seek to capture a time of transition and possibility. The pre-pubescent girls in my drawings are actually reduced versions of me, going back to a time of innocence and potential, and I multiply them as a means of selfexploration. They split apart, …
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Becoming
… 2019 photographic portraiture series entitled Becoming. Using James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Zora Neale Hurston as departure points, both the photo series and this academic explanative seeks to explore the question of what does it mean to become? Or in other words, what is the imperative to be …
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On Becoming
The period of the 1950-60s ushered in a new global paradigm in both theatrical and musical performance. Specifically, over 400 years of using the human voice in a specific (Bel Canto) manner – ‘emphatic voice use’ (Clarke, 2016), traditional European compositional and orchestration techniques came …
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Becoming Tangata Tiriti
… Edge. This thesis seeks to understand how becoming tangata tiriti is an essential decolonising process which may enable and empower non-Māori to show up equitably within vibrant Te Tiriti partnerships that can ensure our collective descendants inherit a world of vitality. The decolonisation …
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Echoes of Becoming
Echoes of Becoming is a creative research project that examines the evolving nature of identity through the research-creation methodology. It draws on my personal experience of moving from Iran to Canada, narrating the process of undergoing an identity crisis and gradually healing through accepting …
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Becoming the flaming creature
Becoming the Flaming Creature is a transdisciplinary thesis exploring sculpture, scent, performance, and poetry through the lens of queer embodiment, material experimentation, and transformation. Drawing on the legacy of Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963) and the metaphor of the scavenger, the …
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The Rite of Becoming
… in constant transformation and movement, always becoming. Catherine Malabou claims that our bodies are plastic, meaning they have the capacity to give and receive form as well as to explode. Plasticity which has an element of temporality is resistance, it is multiple and transformational. What …
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Phenomenon of becoming a midwife
My research explored student experiences of becoming midwives. It focused specifically on understanding their lived world experiences. The research is located in a hermeneutic framework as described by van Manen (1990). I chose to undertake a longitudinal study as the length of the students’ course …
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Transmutation: One Thing Becoming Another
<p>My art emerges from decades of the experience of building myself, sensitively aware of accumulated experience and the weight of accrued memory. Responding to this life I so deeply appreciate the longer I live, as sculptor, painter and poet, I merge these individual aesthetic observations into a …
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On Becoming a Reflexive Practitioner
Research into the world of the only child has been dominated by the existence of the enduring stereotype of the spoilt and lonely child. This has resulted in a wide range of studies that vary in opinion and have tended to polarise the experience from a negative and damaging one, moving to a more …
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Becoming Zhongguo, Becoming Han : Tracing and Reconceptualizing Ethnicity in Ancient North China, 770 BC - AD 581
My thesis explores the nature of ethnic identity in the core region of north China during a period of 1,351 years from the beginning of Eastern Zhou (770-256 BC) to the end of the Northern Dynasties (AD 399-581), these being periods commonly perceived as starting in a state of ethnic diversity and …
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Leopold Eidlitz: Becoming an American architect
Leopold Eidlitz (1823-1908) was born in Prague and trained in Vienna as a land manager, a position in which he would have worked for the Austrian government as a building inspector or designer of small, rural structures. He came to the United States seeking work as an architect in 1843. Arriving …
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Ethnographic Narrative Project: Becoming Ms. Vue
<p>The title of “Ms. Vue” is one to be earned before stepping into a classroom because it will be one of the names to be constantly asked and demanded of. The journey of gaining this title is definitely not an easy one nor can it ever be perfected but a continuous learning process. With my own …
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