Reversed Painting: Faktura and Autopoietic System

My research proposes a practice-based investigation about painting and the establishment of a system of painting. An engagement with material and medium procedures, as the primary constituents of painting, will be explored through a concept of faktura. The idea of the system is underpinned by a notion of autopoiesis. Autopoiesis is explored as a self-generative process based as a way to derive method and structural organisation from its own making through its own lived experience. Faktura's link to modern materials and processes uncovered a dialogue within the system between painting and digital imaging. The digital imaging served as a means of re-presenting reality. From this position the investigation opened up the opportunity for painting not to be bound to re-presenting reality. It allowed for the emergence of the new - painting's inception from itself as itself as the point of departure and return. The painting surface could be considered the place of expansion and contraction for the proposition of a new painting’s emergence - painting derived from material, medium and method reflecting autopoiesis as the means.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Art and Design

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Theses

Grantor dc:publisher

Auckland University of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Farquhar, Andrew Hamish

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Fitchett, Dale
• Clark, Simon

• Autopoiesis
• Painting
• Faktura

Language dc:language.iso

en

Identifier

hdl:10292/4746

OAI record oai:identifier

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