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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"beyond the frame"”.
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Architecture beyond the frame filmmaking and the adjacent space
Filmmaking operates behind the closed doors of the studio system. Entire compounds of private space are devoted to the practice of film. Generic city streets, practical sets, a digital environments have had a long history of substituting for real locations. My thesis proposal examines the inversion …
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Beyond the frame : a liminal space in contemporary South African photography
Anthropologists and ethnographers documenting the African subject – as soldiers of the colonial enterprise, dominated early practices of photography in Africa. These endeavors manufactured a visual narrative that was uniform in its approach to Africa's landscape, which largely persists in the …
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Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill's utopian visions of colonial South Australia.
The 1840s paintings of the emigrant artist Samuel Thomas (ST) Gill are frequently used to depict Adelaide’s earliest years. ST Gill’s works are enduringly popular, and the compositions show a peaceful version of the colonising of South Australia in an era before the advent of photography could …
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Re-Framing the American West: Contemporary Artists Engage History
… who revisit, revise, reimagine, reclaim, and otherwise engage directly with art of the American Frontier from 1820-1920. The revision of the historic images calls attention to the myth and ideologies imbedded in the imagery. Likewise, these contemporary images are essentially a framing of …
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Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora
<p>This dissertation traces the sensory and political dimensions of Karen refugees' co-movements with their seeds, plants, and agricultural practices in exile. It also tentatively explores understandings of sovereignty beyond the frame of the Westphalian nation-state through engagements with seed …
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
… our daguerrean artists, will take pictures of these little girls, and place them in their specimens by the street side. We want our citizens to see what people are made slaves of at the South,” declared an anonymous author in a letter written in 1855 to the abolitionist journal The Liberator. …
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Re-presenting historical trauma: art-making and the affective imagination
… Latvia, I encounter a young girl who looks to the ground and hides her face. Due to this visual obfuscation I direct a plea for her to look up and meet my gaze. The question as to why this photograph was taken shortly before their execution looms large. My yearning to see the young girl's face …
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How To Do Things With Cameras
The primary site for this research is artistic production, through exhibitions and performances presented in galleries between 2008-2012. The written thesis closely examines the large body of practical work I have made through discussions with Dean Kenning, a viewer to all the artworks submitted. …