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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"ephemeral art"”.
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Still Point: Personal Essays Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy's Ephemeral Art
… a creative interpretation of Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral art in the form of personal essays that combine memoir, story-telling, and reflection on themes, inherent in his sculpture, that inspire exploration of universals of human nature. These essays concern themselves with Goldsworthy's …
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Ephemeral Art: A Philosophical Proposition about the Nature of Time and Being
The subject of this thesis is ephemeral art; a phenomenon which has surfaced repeatedly in Western art history since the middle of the last century. The research begins from the premise that in order to understand ephemeral art it must be approached as a philosophical proposition concerning the …
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Pocahontas reclaimed: the Powhatans' theatrical rebuttal to Disney's revisionist myth
… <em>Pocahontas</em>. While theatre, by nature an ephemeral art, could not generate an audience of the magnitude of the Disney movie, the success of the play, measured by the interpersonal connections between the actor and the audience, proves noteworthy.</p>
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The exquisite corporealities of Leibniz: performance as embodied practice of thought and documentary praxis
… with and through LEIBNIZ, the fluid Live Art collective that I co-founded with Ernst Fischer in 2005. Extending Ernst's and my long-standing engagement with issues of alterity, 'home' and 'belonging', our more widely collaborative activities as LEIBNIZ have developed to specifically …
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Mandela, Massachusetts: Design Futures for a Proposed City
… ever. The following thesis presents my ongoing art project Mandela, Massachusetts: Design Futures for a Proposed City, which asks the question: “How might we use design to spark conversation about the hidden history and potential design of Mandela?”. During Spring 2021, I designed realistic …
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Re-performance, Mourning and Death: Specters of the Past
… and loss with performance studies theories, particularly those relating to re-performance and the documentation of performance. Thus, it draws on work by performance studies scholars, such as Peggy Phelan, Diana Taylor, and Rebecca Schneider and philosophers, including Jacques Derrida, Julia …
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Shadow of a Memory
… Multiâ€media has made it possible for artists such as myself to create artworks that require more than a visual conversation with the viewer. The manipulation of memory by time became a physical manifestation in the environments that I create with the use of multiâ€media installations.
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The States and Status of Clay: Material, Metamorphic and Metaphorical Values.
… contextual research in order to demonstrate how arts practice can challenge historical perceptions of clay and enhance its material status. The core knowledge deduced from this research is that embodied performance transforms connectivity between artist and clay and produces a unified incarnation …
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Remembering and Forgetting in the Archive : Instituting ‘Group Material’ (1979–1996)
… critical writing or dissertation that has two parts: (a) Retrospective / Prospective: Activating the Archive, September 1, 2010, and (b) an accretion of further analysis, Archive, Archived, Archiving, September 1, 2011. (2) A testing of both archiving practice and its historical representation …