Cassils is a Canadian contemporary performance artist who transforms their body into “social sculptures” in order to affect widespread social change, particularly for trans and queer communities. This study investigates Cassils’ interventions into debates about transgender visib…
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This thesis explores the aesthetics of embodiment in technologized installation art through the work of four artists–Mona Hatoum, YoHa, Anicka Yi, and Pamela Rosenkranz–who employ multisensory means to reconstruct the body as an entity to be sensed, rather than strictly seen. In…
This dissertation examines contemporary Los Angeles-based artists whose identity and work engages with issues of diaspora. I combine visual analysis of the artwork with interviews with the artists to look at the ways in which they utilize several visual and theoretical concepts …
Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now presents a group of artists working in both natural and urban environments whose work exploits the power of place to address issues of social, environmental, and personal transformation. Through a focused selection of…
In this paper I discuss the motivations and inspirations that contextualize my artistic practice during the course of my 2-year MFA degree, including my thesis exhibition, Wandering Isle . Within this paper I investigate the notion of multiple identities as it applies to Iranian…
The last three decades have seen the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca evolve to become an autonomous centre for the creation and promotion of contemporary art on state, national and international levels. The present research's original contribution to knowledge is the analytical …
Throughout history art has been regarded as an avenue for expression, healing, and a creative outlet for humanity. From simple cave drawings to detailed and expressive paintings no matter the artistic ability, the intention is to allow an escape from reality and an opening of th…
The purpose of this study is to examine whether art gallerists are replaceable in the current climate in which the plea for removing the middlemen has been growing. The speed and ease of art transactions through digital platforms provide an alternative to the relationship-based …
This doctoral thesis consisted of a cultural-rhetorical-cognitive approach to the work of the English street artist Banksy and in particular of his graffiti. By examining the aesthetics and function of Banksy’s graffiti in both street and contemporary art, this study has shown t…
This project investigates a filmic technique—the production of moments of absorption and estrangement—and its translation and provocation to architecture with attention to private life and residence. The design research explored a set of formal, material, tectonic, programmatic,…
Este estudo tem como principal objectivo explorar o modo como a viagem e a paisagem se apresentam no slow cinema. Inicialmente será efectuada uma caracterização do slow cinema tendo como base alguns momentos importantes da história do cinema. Posteriormente, tentar se á compreen…
Europeans invented the concept of race to support their idea of racial superiority overall inhabitants of this continent. With this, there was also an invention of systems to police aesthetics, separating white from other. This system was expanded in the lead-up to the United St…
This dissertation examines the prospects of laïcité (secularism) in France today by exploring transformations in perceptions of symbols and practices associated with the Roman Catholic faith. My research works counter to many social scientific studies of religion and secularism …
This dissertation examines the shift in contemporary African art in the 1990s. By focusing on the Dak’Art Biennial as an important context of analysis, it argues that the genesis of this shift was the economic and political failures of the postcolonial states in the 1980s, which…
The globalization of the contemporary art market is a driving force behind the production and consumption of art from emerging markets, particularly in previously underrepresented regions, known as the Global South. Globally, artists from post-colonial nations have surfaced and …
In recent decades, attention to textile art has flourished. The growth of contemporary studies committed to revising fiber’s hierarchical categorization represents a discursive turn heavily weighted within feminist inquiry. The interrelation between textile techniques and constr…
Through her mystically infused, minimalistic sculptures, Iranian-born, London-based artist Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 ) has continued the trend of abstract spiritually in contemporary art. However, the theology that she represents is a mixture of her own creation, taking inspirat…
Hayv Kahraman is most widely known for her large-scale paintings of pale women with skin like silk and soft clouds of dark black hair. She often draws on her experiences as an émigré from Iraq to represent the challenges that surface as a result of one's identity. Having observe…
This project analizes the use of the Arabic script in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance (1988) and Kutlugˇ Ataman's Animated Words (2003) to understand the variety of interpretations made possible to audiences familiar and unfamiliar to Arabic. These artists' roles as Middle Ea…