Making space : speleology : an exegesis presented with exhibition as fulfillment of the requirements for thesis : Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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2010
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Massey University
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This essay documents a year of exploring how to continue to be creative, experimental and intuitive within an art
institution. It provides a context and thus academic shelter for a non-linear, experimental process of making drawings,
sculpture and site-specific work. The essay has three layers; the contextual document,
images which show the process of making, as well as a narrative written in experimental poetry which describes the embodied process of making through collaged journal writing.
The images are interspersed through the essay, while the poetry provides an alternative narrative and is printed on the back pages of the essay.
‘Building’ is used as an active metaphor for the creative process, as well as buildings as sites for research and installation of adaptive sculptures.
Building as a metaphor for unchanging narratives will be contrasted with artists whose work challenges the unitary nature of a functional building through their interventions.
Using the body to make meaning is discussed in a feminist context, as an alternative this model to linear, rational thinking. This also questions and problematizes the heroic male artist body.
Performing the making through a female body will be discussed and issues of privacy and proximity covered. A potential solution to these issues will be explored in using abstraction to create active meaning, thus implicating the body of the audience as well as the artist.
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Experimental poetry, Creative process, Feminism in art, Experimental art