The transcendence of displacement : precarious inquiries into the popular and the banal : 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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dc.contributor.authorBowen, James Lewis
dc.contributor.authorBowen, James Lewis
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-22T01:48:28Z
dc.date.available2011-06-22T01:48:28Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation investigates, through a body of interdisciplinary artwork, the discrepant relationships between the time-based and the static image. It examines how these two distinct states of the image interrogate time/image devices found on virtual platforms of participation and how it might be possible to exchange this dynamic with a contemporary art register. The five artworks operate as idiosyncratic inquires into heightening a precarious and affective relationship with the viewer/spectator and each artwork’s conception and response to popular imagery and subsequent iconography. By using this content to make perception-altering visual forms this content navigates a trajectory that challenges the primitive operation of nostalgia and perpetual objecthood. By bringing together seemingly unrelated discourses such as the Gothic, Shock and Queer aesthetics the artworks in this study attempt to call into doubt and subvert the postmodern traditions of appropriation and banality with immersive environments. This project has explored a lexicon of different mediums including video, cinematic readymades, photography and installation. This engagement with varying disciplines highlights an attempt to speculate how society adheres to a collective unconscious that is mediated through popular content, which simultaneously occupies the binary of virtual and physical space. An emphasis is placed on the space between this binary and creates a dialogue that extracts and exploits encoded formulas circulating in popular culture. By creating a series of dialogues between time-based and static imagery, physical and virtual spaces and fragmented signifiers of holistic narratives, this project aims to subvert the reality that chronicles iconic imagery and attempts to liquidate signatures of time by converging time-based and static mediums.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/2435
dc.identifier.wikidataQ112885743
dc.identifier.wikidata-urihttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112885743
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectTime-based arten_US
dc.subjectGothic arten_US
dc.subjectShock arten_US
dc.subjectQueer arten_US
dc.titleThe transcendence of displacement : precarious inquiries into the popular and the banal : an exegesis presented with exhibition as fulfillment of the requirements for thesis Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineFine Arts
thesis.degree.grantorMassey University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
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