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The University of Texas at Austin

Pause to catch up

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

My practice is often predicated on a web of references to alternative histories, architecture, intimate public spaces and films. The complex layering of references can give the impression that somebody knows the purpose of the space, what’s happening behind the scenes. This powerlessness offsets the psychological absorption [of the installation] with feelings of exclusions and otherness. That is to say, one is othered or alienated by this work and its specific signifiers because they cannot fully identify with them - one cannot find their own subjectivity reflected in these phenomena, these objects. Thus, the experience of the work as a whole is characterized by alienation.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
Masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Studio Art
Grantor
The University of Texas at Austin
Year dc:date.issued
2017

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Betts, Zachary
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Lucas, Kristin, 1968-
Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Stoney, John

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/62815

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Last updated
2026-07-24
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citation

Betts, Zachary. Pause to catch up. Masters thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/62815