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This thesis examines the early works of Soviet conceptual performance art group Collective Actions, founded in 1976, and focuses on the way the group employed the concept of “emptiness” as a motif throughout its practice. Notions of nothingness, emptiness, and dematerialization …

Since 1950s, the concept of Kongwu (空無, Emptiness, Nothingness) has migrated into American-European experimental performances, including those of John Cage and Cage-influenced artists who developed Happenings, Fluxus, and intermedia practices. This research-through-practice inve…

This dissertation grapples with the notion of domination in the western philosophical tradition by investigating a claim leveled from within feminist theology and Christian social ethics. That claim, first introduced by Sharon Welch, suggests that the deployment of any critique …