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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"Performance Art"”.
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Bodycloth in Performance Art
… and cloth (as separate elements) collapse. This artistic research thesis analyses a variety of inter-relations between body and cloth, as well as various modes of adornment and utilisations in order to understand the performance, experience, and presence of bodycloth in performance art. Drawing …
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Action poetry : the vocal-body in performance art
This thesis explores the relationships between performance art, poetry, sound poetry and page-based scores in order to develop ‘action poetry’ as a new transdisciplinary field that foregrounds the ‘vocal-body’ in performance art. Driven by my own creative practice —through the artworks and …
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COMBAT DANCE:A CREATIVELY HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE ART
… Dance" is an eclectic blend of combat and dance art forms combined and taught from the Fall 2001 to Spring 2003. As defined here, combat dance is a blend of techniques and principles gleaned from both unarmed and armed aspects of stage combat, martial arts (such as aikido and kung fu), modern …
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Performing exile: Cuban-American women’s performance art, 1972-2014
… Initiative. Case studies of select works by each artist use archival research, close readings, and discourse, performance, and visual analyses in conversation with critical race, intersectional feminist, and queer theoretical lenses to show how they use the body in performance and performative …
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Images of Violence from Mexico: A performance art based enquiry
… of human violence are explored through performance, while maintaining ethical value in aesthetic perception; and To develop a methodology in performance art through which I express my work as practice and the use of myself as a participant. These aims have been informed by the blurring …
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The Bizarre Bazaar: investigating gendered performance through interactive performance art
The Bizarre Bazaar: Investigating Gendered Performance through Interactive Performance Art This study investigates the persistence and evolution of structural violence as it relates to gender rooted in colonialism/apartheid within contemporary Afrikaner communities, particularly in middle and …
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"DO WE NOT SING THESE TEXTS?": PRESENCE EFFECTS IN PERFORMANCE ART
… as it is illuminated through encounters with performance art. In Chapter One I describe what is meant by materialities of communication and outline three heuristic features of materiality. In Chapter Two I define performance generally as a mode of action and performance art as a mode of …
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Food and the Social Body in US Performance Art, 1962–1980
… life-sustaining substance began to appear in US art in the early 1960s not just as an image, but as a literal material. Artists associated with every major artistic movement in the ’60s and ’70s, working in every conceivable medium, experimented with food. It was particularly evident in …
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Decolonial Museum Practice Through Performance Art and Activation: A Collective Autoethnography
… histories are contested. Within this context, performance art has emerged as a powerful tool for challenging dominant narratives and analysing oppressive systems within cultural institutions. Guided by concepts of decoloniality and decolonial methodology, this thesis critically analyses the …
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An Account of Development of Performance Art in China from 1979-2010
… and gain new insights into the development of performance art in China. The development of performance art in China is set out in a chronological account of the events and art works that illustrate the development of a permissive, open-ended medium with endless variables. The events and works …
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In search of the subject: locating the shifting politics of women's performance art
… late 1960s to the present, women have utilised performance art as a 'form' with which to resist, transgress, contest or reveal the position of women within wider society. However, as both the nature of feminist politics and the contexts within which the work has been produced have changed, the …
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Admonition and the academy : installation, video, and performance art in Reform Era China
… has seen the reinvigoration of academic, and artistic practice, and a rapprochement between the Chinese Communist Party and the intellectual elite. At its beginnings in the early- to mid-1980s the new availability of foreign texts and media led to Culture Fever, a widespread phenomenon …
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Portable borders/mythical sites : performance art and politics on the US Frontera, 1968-present
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
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Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice.
… listening experiences in the context of sound art discourse. The research aim is to develop a contextual approach to sound art practice, informed by personal experience of listening to place. These challenges are summed up in pieces of performance art that also highlight the interdisciplinary …
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Text+Object+Action=Textact: Can text work as the main focus of a performance art practice?
… led research examines ways in which text, particularly the written form, can become the focus of a performative practice. The works, which I have named ‘Textacts’, investigate ways in which text can be activated, explore which objects can carry text and trial a range of actions through which …
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Reflections On Leaking Men And Abject Masculinities: Challenging Representations Of Male Identity In And Through Body-Based Performance Art
… representation of masculinity in male body-based performance art placed emphasis on the deconstruction of normative masculine identities. The focus of these investigations tended to position the image of masculinity within Lacan’s sexuation matrix, and as such, these representations were usually …
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In her Prime or Past it?: Reconsidering the Male Gaze and Exploring Feminine Monstrosity and Excess in Feminist Performance Art and Film
… when explored and questioned through feminist performance art. This is a practice-based PhD that uses interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the agentive potential of alternative and monstrous femininity that deconstructs women’s relationship to the masculinised gaze. I work to unveil …
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Breaking Bars: An investigation into how performance art as an intervention program inside prison may lead to a behavior change among male gang members in Cape Town, South Africa
… programme, Help I am Free, that uses performance arts as a case study to investigate the potential impacts of such intervention strategies. The paper does so by outlining the experiences of five male gang members before, during, and after their time in prison. Using a cross-sectional …
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