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This dissertation is an ethnography of Kazakhstan's art world after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Drawing on fifteen months of anthropological field research in Almaty and Astana, in Kazakhstan, I inquire into the discourses and practices of aesthetic production as visual…

In the early 20th century Mexico, and surely in reaction to the Mexican Revolution, there was a growing desire to create a new nationalist artistic style that could promote mexicanidad, a word that reflects the nature of being Mexican and the pride felt in identifying as Mexican…

This practice-led research focuses on the relationship between power and the exercise of speech. It considers connections between silence and the body that form a space where vulnerability and social injustice become manifest. It examines these through ideas of muteness.