The tradition of the laying on of hands (LOH) can be ambiguous in both essence and practice. Further, the contemporary evangelical church and the academy lack a robust understanding its significance in both orthodoxy and orthopraxy. The goal of this work is threefold: (1) to cla…
Ce mémoire de maîtrise sous forme d’essai de pratique accompagne l’installation immersive Mnémoscope, stationnée au Centre de production en art actuel Touttout en décembre 2020. Il propose une réflexion sur le territoire de l’installation immersive à travers ma pratique, ma déma…
In the stream of interactivity development, interactive installation still restricts the degree of responsiveness with a non-intuitive outlook. Besides, the level of interactivity where one chooses from a list of options to obtain the desired feedback has been used in art instal…
In August 2014, I took my first trip to Croatia, the country of my paternal ancestors. navigating family in an unfamiliar place is an installation of photographs and video documentation from the trip. The footage highlights some of the family that I discovered in the village wit…
My work arises from the process of extracting content from real events. I reassemble this content and transform it into the components comprising my installation, entitled I Can See Your House From Up Here . The subject for my thesis is centered on a continuing atrocity that occ…
This dissertation examines the genealogy and history of the black box in architecture from the late 1940s to the late-1970s, focusing on architects, designers, and artists in the United States. Through an examination of the work of Will Burtin, Pulsa, and Doug Michels this disse…
What does it mean to be a Middle Eastern immigrant in the Islamophobic and anti-immigrant context of the early twenty-first century US? How can performance help to construct and make sense of Middle Eastern immigrant identities and their belonging to US society? In “Staging Belo…
In-between Spaces is a paper based in personal narrative that uses Critical Race Theory and art to analyze the history of photography and systems of discrimination facilitated by hegemonic culture. Body is at the center as a symbol of the physical and psychological impacts syste…
As I make my way through the world, I rely on my senses to inform me of the things and events around me that allow me to continue living and growing as a human being. I am keenly aware of myself as a living human consciousness that appears to inhabit a body. My mind is the cente…
In this series of work entitled hoodies. I am examining the definition of portraiture. It is a reductive process in which I question what elements of a portrait I am willing to let go of. The answer comes as a form of abstraction–abstracting the recognizable human form, the envi…