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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dc.contributor.authorTorrington, Sian
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-24T01:06:24Z
dc.date.availableNO_RESTRICTIONen_US
dc.date.available2010-05-24T01:06:24Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/1332
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectExperimental poetryen_US
dc.subjectCreative processen_US
dc.subjectFeminism in arten_US
dc.subjectExperimental arten_US
dc.subject.otherFields of Research::410000 The Artsen_US
dc.titleMaking space : speleology : 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
massey.contributor.authorTorrington, Sian
thesis.degree.disciplineFine Artsen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)en_US
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