Confrontation: Endeavors in Futility

This paper is intended to compliment and describe the body of work that has been produced within the time I have been enrolled as a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University's Photography and Film department. The paper will include information on both my MFA candidacy presentation as well as a description of the evolution of my artistic endeavors. The main focus of this document is to discuss my formal examination of performance based video works pertaining to the absurd as described by Camus, and later expressed by Samuel Beckett, also the role of the masculine body's physicality within ritualized actions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Photography & Film

Year dc:date.available

2007

Author dc:creator

• Barlow, Gabriel Lashley

Contributors dc:contributor

• Paul Thulin

• masculinity
• tone poem
• accident
• stumble
• impact
• Samuel Beckett
• Marina Abramovic
• William Pope.L
• minimal
• vertical
• horizontal
• confrontation
• Art and Design
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/697

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1696