Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe body of work Bear Grease & Smudge Smoke consists of three artworks: Remnants of Transference, an installation at the Nickle Gallery; Bear Smudge a performance for camera shown in an online gallery; and Spinning a Web with Bear Grease, Smudge Smoke and Moonlight, an abstracted support paper that doubles as an art object shown in an online gallery. Bear Grease & Smudge Smoke investigates the role of the artist in relation to the body, ancestral materials, site, time, and conversations of self-determination. Storytelling, visiting, and dreaming are employed as research collection in order to develop the exhibited and written thesis work. The Spider’s web and Métis worldviews are used as anchoring points in the presented works. Operating from Indigenous understandings of the world and using performance and considered material choice as a source of knowledge, this thesis work focuses on building futures that are in alignment with Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Art
- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- Arts
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Murray, Audie
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Anderson, Judy
- Sutherland, Erin
- Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Willard, Tania
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:1880/115350