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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"arts practice"”.
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Re-presenting gender fluid identity in a contemporary arts practice
This dissertation addresses the paucity of representation of gender fluid identity within contemporary imagery. An examination of historical and socio-political structures inherent in modern Western society serves as a foundational position for a broader exploration of differently gendered …
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A Framework for the Consideration of Narrative in Creative Arts Practice
… tend to be weak unless anchored in specific practices or disciplines. The lack of scholarship to support contemporary art and design research practitioners produces a problem by giving the false impression that narrative is largely irrelevant to practice. It also inhibits new scholarship when …
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Interfaces of location and memory: An exploration of place through context-led arts practice.
… that invites an understanding of context-led arts practice that is responsive to the particularities of place, rather than a model of practice that is applied to a place. ‘Socially engaged’ and ‘relational’ practice are examples of contemporary arts field designations that suggest a modus …
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Striking a balance between formalism and expression in visual arts practice and visual arts education
This creative arts project is an exploration of the benefits of an approach to visual arts education that balances the need for both formal (i.e. visual arts language, knowledge of skills, techniques and processes) and expressive content. As an artist, my tendency to focus on formal concerns can …
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What use is music in an ocean of sound? Towards an object-orientated arts practice
… is not distinct from that which surrounds it. My practice is an attempt to produce objects that are self-consciously and self-reliantly distinct. It is no use for anything other than that.
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Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology
… - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology. This thesis articulates the development of my visual art and critical practice, exploring Black, female subjectivities within speculative narratives of the future. It proposes a new term, Dark …
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Flawed Masculinities: “Rupturing” 1950s/60s/70s British TV Sitcom via a Performance-led Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
This practice-based PhD has at its core six short films, made by and featuring the author (Dean Kelland), which take as their inspiration certain male characters from TV sitcoms from the 1950s-1970s. Those characters are: Tony Hancock (Hancock’s Half- Hour, 1956-59, BBC1 UK); Harold Steptoe …
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Uncanny Bodies: an arts practice-based exploration of strategies to embody thresholds between life and death
… of this inquiry, which was made using an arts practice-based methodology that involves employing praxis and reflective processes in an ongoing, cyclical way. I combine this with Viktor Shklovsky’s technique of ostranenie and a process of not knowing, with the intention to create outcomes …
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Craft-Focused Electronic Musical Instrument Building: Exploring DIY Textiles and Hybrid Craft Techniques in Sound Arts Practice
The aim of this practice-led research was to explore the concept of a craft focused electronic musical instrument building practice, prioritising textile handcraft materials, techniques and aesthetics in the process of creating new electronic musical instruments and sound artwork. A range of DIY …
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Approaching the Formless: the non-figurative art of the Hindu traditions and its relevance to a contemporary arts practice
… of the Vedic and Tantric traditions through an Arts Practice as Research methodology. The research engages with traditional arts practices, and considers whether the practice of copying sacred artworks is able to inform a contemporary arts practice. The research questions whether the minimalist …
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From Anaesthetic to Aesthetic in the Clinic: An Arts, Practice-Based Inquiry into Everyday Aesthetic Experience for Healthcare Practitioners
Medical practice is replete with emotive images and processes in everyday small interactions as well asissues of life and death. Practitioners can be moved in aesthetic ways. The capacity for, and attention to, personal lived aesthetic experience is easily suppressed in clinical practice where the …
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A poetics of uncertainty: a chorographic survey of the life of John Trevisa and the site of Glasney College, Cornwall, mediated through locative arts practice
… to reflective writing about creative practice. John Trevisa, in the context of contemporary Cornish culture, is a contested figure because his linguistic innovations, in the course of translating key texts from Latin into the English vernacular, make no obvious contribution to Kernowek …
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Finding Fluid Form: A process aesthetic as a means to engage with the prevailing model of thinking in ecological art
… thesis considers common approaches to eco-art practice and its established discourses. Through a critical review of the field it identifies problems in practice and theory that are potentially counter-productive. It outlines methods used in eco-art that, whilst seeking to address environmental …
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Landscape Aesthetics in Practice: A critical enquiry into the development and use of an arts practice as a constructive intervention within the context of landscape change, community action, Green Infrastructure planning and delivery and Landscape Character Assessment processes.
… a relational and environmental walking-art practice to overcome this disconnect; an approach which attempts to reconnect art and life, cultural and natural systems. Metaphor is used as a method to reflect upon an emergent art practice. The research considers Felix Guattari's ideas of …
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(Dis)identifying female archetypes in live art
My thesis considers a feminist arts practice as a form of political agency. My research is practice-led. It consists of three performances/live art events (Medea/Mothers’ Clothes, Magdalena Makeup and Joan Trial), its documentation on three sets of DVDs and a written dissertation. Female …
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Post-atomic Auralities: A practice-based study of sound and atmospheric effects
This practice-based research investigates the aural connections of sound, temperature, radioactivity and atmosphere. It is sustained by a central question that asks: What are the connections between sound and the nuclear, and how might novel methodologies for sound arts practice activate these …
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Ludics for a Ludic Society. The Art and Politics of Play
… an analysis of, and critical commentary on, the practice of playfulness as persistent phenomenon in the arts, technology and theory. Its aim is to introduce political reflections on agency through the study of playful technological artefacts, which were largely ignored in the recent discussions …
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Limitations on the Arts in Prison; Restrictive Narrative Identity and the Performance of Reform
In this thesis I make the case that arts practice in prison has largely been appropriated by the discourse of rehabilitation and that other possible reasons for advocating the arts in prison are marginalised. I propose that artistic projects, which focus on aesthetic, as opposed to rehabilitative …
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Working together on ecological thinking: relationality and difference.
… understanding of 'ecological thinking' in the arts, through the portfolio of peer reviewed research publications of a producer of public art projects in the healthcare and environment settings. A timeline/visual map is included to draw attention to the interrelations between elements in the …
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