[in vain] : performing her for herself : a thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a degree of Masters in Design at Massey University, Wellington, NZ

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dc.contributor.authorFrauenstein, Meggan
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-28T03:39:04Z
dc.date.available2011-06-28T03:39:04Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionAppendices (Design gestures ; Exhibition footage) consisting of QuickTime files on CD-ROM not loaded but available with the hard copy
dc.description.abstractDrawing on the language of the mirror and symbolism conventionally employed to describe the feminine myth, this project explores the daily performance of being ‘woman’ as influenced by the polemics of feminism and popular culture. “Performing Her for Herself” presents a feminism that interrogates the music video and contemporary ‘pop divas’, to encourage a feminist sensibility that allows for new ways of seeing, dually aware and embracing of the many and varied representations of ‘femaleness’. The project is structured around the tropes of representation, reflection and refraction: The Represented Social Body, the Reflective Historical Body and the Refracted Performing Body. Judith Butler and Henry Giroux furnish a theoretical context, providing speculative strategies of gender performance, notions of desire and the imaging of women. Embodied research considers not only the relationship between the viewer and the viewed but also the formal qualities of video, the screen envisaged as mirror. What begins as the daily performance of me for myself is refracted to consider the mythological body, temporality, seduction and a desperate vanity of perception in the performance of her for herself.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/2463
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectFeminism in arten_US
dc.subjectFemininity in arten_US
dc.subjectPerformance arten_US
dc.subjectMeggan Frauensteinen_US
dc.title[in vain] : performing her for herself : a thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a degree of Masters in Design at Massey University, Wellington, NZen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorFrauenstein, Meggan
thesis.degree.disciplineDesign
thesis.degree.grantorMassey University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Design (M.Des.)
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