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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Found Object"”.
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The found object and the presentation of everyday life.
… people are depicted in art via the use of found objects, and how the findings have helped influence my own art practice. I begin by discussing the concept of the everyday in relation to my own work, and identify the impact that my domestic life and past experiences have had on my own …
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Inventory for a Reverse Journey. Photographic Image and Found Object - An investigation of travel and material transformation as a paradigm of artist's practice: Ed Ruscha, Douglas Huebler, Bas jan Ader, Jimmie Durham, Gustav Metzger, Kurt Schwitters & Cian Quayle.
… of a collection of photographic artefacts and found objects, which I have collected over the last twenty years. The title refers to one specific type of artist's journey, which is applicable to the `chronotope' of my archive, as a `metaphorical journey in space and time' (Bakhtin 1981, p. 81). …
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Seeds of Passage
… of sculptural ensembles I have created with found-objects, musing the Nobel Prize winning play, Death and the Horsemen, by Wole Soyinka. The play is based on the incident that took place in 1946 in the western region of Nigeria, when the cosmological traditions of a colonizing power clashed …
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Intervals
… Each pinhole photograph, painting, sketchbook, found object, sculpture, or drawing provides its own tools for reflection. Over time, these processes form hundreds of images. Some will begin to call themselves together and somehow suggest a new perspective, a cumulative image that reveals …
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One Million Paintings 2005-2007: A Thesis
<p>I assist discarded collectives of objects to volunteer themselves for inclusion into the privileged legacy of flatness – assuring them they can be transformed into Painting. Reducing my interventions - often to mere arrangement - respects the possibility of this transformation while frankly …
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The Record of a Masters Thesis Exhibit
This thesis documents the preparation, exhibition, and audience reaction to an art exhibit created by the author.
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Ross Caudill MFA Sculpture 2006
… during graduate school making tangible,object oriented sculpture. I have been working formally to compose space in a way that develops a narrative between parts. The work is also a bridge between the fields of painting and sculpture, in terms of drawing with form and both painted and …
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The FACTory: Unearthing the forgotten industry of Cape Town
… story. This is a project in which the existing found object will uncover, narrate and reclaim its own industrial past, through its reprogramming, and will act as an urban catalyst within its otherwise stark context. Industrial Archaeology is the study of material evidence associated with the …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
… prints, aluminum and iron casting, ceramics and found object assemblage. Working through these different processes refined my aesthetic sense, reinforcing my affinity for an organic, spontaneous and referential art-making process that allows me to approach painting from a number of conceptual …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
… prints, aluminum and iron casting, ceramics and found object assemblage. Working through these different processes refined my aesthetic sense, reinforcing my affinity for an organic, spontaneous and referential art-making process that allows me to approach painting from a number of conceptual …
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Queering Up for Battle
… and communities. To this end, I collect Queer objects and organize them into an arsenal of triangular and militaristic constructions. Building off the symbolic history of the pink and black triangles, I claim all triangles for Queer peoples and see them as the shape that will bring forward a …
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Confronting gold mine acid drainage : art as counter-activity
… outside environment, temporary or permanent. The found object or existing object is often used in installation art for its intellectual value. Inter-and-trans-disciplinary approach: The utilisation and collaboration of different disciplines as a means to find a solution to a (environmental) …