Running-room in the mangle of practice : contemporary art in the thick of things : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
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2011
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Massey University
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This document and the exhibited artwork it accompanies aims to perform
a positive aesthetic of exile that enacts the dislocating and shattering
strategies of spatial, temporal and imagistic montage but also attempts to
open a caesura in today’s relentless flow of images and thickening
temporality. It joins with particular currents in engaged contemporary art
to re-imagine what documentary form might be as an act of revelation
not reduction. I have advocated in word and deed a structure of desire
that is promiscuous without being possessive and accounts for a mode of
subjectivity that temporally emerges from its material conditions in the
thick of things. The corpus of experimental work has traversed a wide
range of media and intentions but always with these issues in mind. I have
produced small, tentative gestures in the city and ambitious proposals for
affective maps in a mixed-media installation. I have gathered together an
ambitious chorus of voices from across disciplines to share in common in
a dialectical movement of resistance and accommodation that seeks to
expand the realms of conceptual and corporeal possibility.
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Space and time in art, Art installations, Conceptual art