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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Experimental Art"”.
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Conducting Experiments: On the Connections Between Experimental Art Praxes and Performance Studies
… dissertation explores experimentation--across experimental music, experimental theatre, and experimental film, in addition to the term's etymology, scientific usage, and colloquial deployment--in order to derive a deeper understanding of what we mean when we say an artwork is experimental, and …
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Parallel Texts: Contemporary Women’s Experimental Art Writing in North American Exhibition Catalogues from the 1970s to the Present
Experimental writing can inhabit liminal spaces in-between genres and disciplines as it strives to rupture normative rhetorical patterns by playing with form and pushing language beyond its expected conventions. When this mode of writing is brought to bear upon an art object, the resultant text …
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An intellectual history of the School for Designing a Society
This dissertation traces the roots of an experimental art school for social change called the School for Designing a Society. It focuses on the history of a group of intellectuals, and their ideas, during the latter half of the twentieth century. The composer Herbert Brün (1918-2000) formulated …
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An experimental cut curriculum for the remediation of visual processing impairments affecting reading
… problems, and measured the effects of an experimental art program on the reading, drawing, and design copying abilities of poor readers. Comparison of pre-test scores on the Goodenough Drawing Test, the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test, and the reading section of the Metropolitan …
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In the AND : experimentation and the impossible in the art of John Murchie, Mary Scott and Eric Cameron
It is generally understood that certain kinds of art, particularly those associated with the historical and neo-avant-gardes, are experimental. Sadly, very little scholarship addresses this popular assumption in a serious way. Theorisations of 'experimental art' persistently define it in terms of a …
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Queer, Cannibal, Brazilian: The Temporal Politics of Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Production
… the dissertation argues that breaking apart the time of the colony through Oswald’s cannibalism also requires dismantling the sexual assumptions of the modern Brazilian subject as a product of mixed-race heterosexual reproduction. It thinks with Oswald’s strategy and queer theory to argue …
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Blazing Century 1: Creative Interventions on the Margins of Two Worlds - Studio-Based Art and Connective Social Practice
… on the margins of two worlds: studio-based art and connective social practice. This thesis proceeded as a reflective commentary on this inquiry while engaging five experimental art projects, mainly carried out in Nigeria and South Africa. I have employed the dynamic model of …
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Capitalist realism : making art for sale in Shanghai, 1999
The artist-instigated exhibition Art for Sale (1999), which partially operated as a fully functioning 'art supermarket' inside a large shopping mall, was one of the most important exhibitions that took place during the development of Shanghai's experimental art-scene in the 1990s, a time when the …
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Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art
… and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art” seeks to destabilize static meanings and complicate conventional academic sources, thus shifting away from the over-reliance on traditional archives and toward expansive Caribbean, African, and Indigenous sources of knowledge. This dissertation …
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Creating non-representational art by students who are severely intellectually disabled through a pictorial and musical program
… of a recently developed Pictorial and Musical art program for severely intellectually disabled students, and to compare the non-representational art work produced by lower primary students in a special education school to similar art work being produced by lower primary students in a regular …
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The Traces of Mining Activities in Riverscapes—a Lyrical and Performative Art-based Approach
… investigates how performative time-based art can respond to the entanglements between humans and riverscapes. Beginning with broad ecological and theoretical concerns, it narrows to a specific site: the Red River in Camborne, Cornwall, UK, a waterway marked by centuries of mining …
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Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre
… of <em>performing ero guro </em>to explore how artists invite erotic and grotesque bodies in postwar theatrical performances to navigate their positions, interests, fears, concerns, and identities within the dominant systems of power to which they belong. In other words, by recreating their own …
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Fragmented Self
As an artist, my work reflects my own life experiences, allowing me to reinterpret and process difficult events in a new light. Creating art is a therapeutic process for me, enabling me to explore and understand my past and my own Self. In line with James Baldwin's views, I believe that the duty of …