Following the Turn: Mapping as Material Art Practice

Following the Turn: Mapping As Material Art Practice investigates my artistic practice and MFA research based in London, Ontario. This dossier of research elements includes: an extended artist’s statement, a documentation of artistic practice and development, and a selection of in-process and published exhibition reviews of contemporary artists’ work; in Chapters 1, 2, and 3 respectively. This written document is in part intended to work as a specific accompaniment to my thesis exhibition. In the body of the thesis I propose that a project-based and embodied material art practice can perform mapping of negotiated experiences of the city. Dealing with ideas concerning ‘knowing’ the city, a series of conceptual and process oriented tactics are explored. Navigation, the everyday, and cumulative gestures help to ground a drawing-installation methodology alongside artistic activities that are initiated outside of the studio. I also consider interpretive theoretical and artistic influences such as the Situationist International, and Michel de Certeau’s ‘tactics’ in relation to my practice and as aids in navigation, meaning making and ultimately mapping. https://vimeo.com/71505779

Name thesis:degree_name

MFA

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Visual Arts

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Western Ontario

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Brown, Kyla Christine

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Patrick Mahon

• mapping
• drawing-installation
• space
• navigation
• the Everyday
• Michel de Certeau
• Situationist International
• Gwen MacGregor
• Francis Alys
• cycling
• London

Language dc:language.iso

en_ca

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14721/36403

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:uwo.scholaris.ca:20.500.14721/36403