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The visible and the invisible : connecting presence and absence through art, memory and the body
No full textThe Visible and the Invisible: Connecting Presence and Absence Through Art, Memory, Mortality and the Body investigates the role that art objects and images used in installation practice have in linking the past to the present. The project's creative and theoretical research speculatively explore and interpret the potential that \ud
such objects--in my art practice and in the work of a range of noted visual artists--have in evoking ideas, memories or physical ties that are not readily apparent. The studio and theoretical research examines how a range of visual \ud
mechanisms in installation practice can evoke (in present time) past events and experiences previously absent. In the research, memory is revealed as having the capacity to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, acting as a powerful catalyst that connects a viewer's awareness of a past experience to the visible objects experienced through a visual installation
Aesthetics of Dysfunction: On Virtual Agglomerations and the Creative Errancies of Code
No full textAesthetics of dysfunction: On Virtual Agglomerations and the Creative Errancies of Code; explores the implications of the ubiquitous status of code in our digital time. This thesis is the result of a four-year research undertaken through programming and software studio practice and theory to answer the question: How can the algorithmic medium of programming and software illustrate the role played by code and its dysfunctions in the shaping of the new universe of virtual agglomerations?
This enterprise is divided into three major components related respectively to the questioning of code as a medium, the techno-social context of computers as an artistic tool, and the power of software in conquering territories metaphorically and physically as a war engine.
In being a repository for accumulated experimentations with the Processing programming environment, algorithms, software, military aerial photography and mathematical functions; my studio practice explores the limits of software error to reflect the status quo imposed by machines as generators and regulators of the digital universe—lived and presented as virtual territories shaped by microprocessors, random access memory, speed and error.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
How do Representations of Animal - Human Relationships in Contemporary Art Signify Current Crises?
No full textMy studio-‐based research consists of a cross-disciplinary body of work and textual analysis. The research focuses upon concepts associated with animal-human relationships in a contemporary art context and how these have implied a range of current crises occurring on a global scale.
This exegesis begins by outlining how animals have been perceived in both historical and cultural contexts. I begin by examining the ways in which animals and our relationship with them have been perceived in the areas of psychoanalysis, with particular attention to the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and their research into the subconscious, unconscious and instinctual drives connected with the animal. I also consider the parallels between anthropology and psychoanalysis and the significance of post-colonial research to these disciplines. I explore how the psychoanalytical theories of Freud and Jung influenced the work of the Surrealists, resulting in much of their experimentation and depictions of animal-human relationships from the 1930s onwards. I also discuss a number of Surrealist artworks, demonstrating how the psychological has been historically connected to representations of animals as
well as their interest in non-Western cultures and art forms.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Noise Made Visible: Acousmatic Sound and Visual Resonance
No full text“Noise Made Visual: Acousmatic Sound and Visual Resonance” is a studio-based PhD project that generates new knowledge about cross-sensory perception and creative, multi-disciplinary practices. This knowledge is communicated through works of contemporary art in conjunction with this exegetical document. The four- year research undertaking was motivated by the following question:
How can listening to unfamiliar sounds that are severed from their original visual context of production (second- degree acousmatic sounds) affect the perceptual relationship between sound, sight, and materiality?
The recorded sound stimuli used for this inquiry encompass an array of ‘cosmic noises’, which are sounds derived from radio waves or electromagnetic forces in outer space. I surmise that many people are unfamiliar with these types of sounds and the processes involved in their production. In turn, this unfamiliarity can liberate sound perception from established audio-visual relationships that are depended on seeing or knowing the sound’s original source and environment of production. This thesis proposes that liberating sound perception from such visual contexts can promote alternative audio-visual relationships to emerge, specifically between sound qualities and abstract visual textures, surfaces, and shapes. These relationships between sonic and visual qualities can be encapsulated through works of visual art, examples of which are discussed in this paper.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
The Artist as Explorer: How Artists from the Vietnamese Diaspora Explore Notions of Home
No full textMy personal experiences as a refugee inform how I see the multiple geographical and social landscapes of Australia and Vietnam, and how I mediate a new sense of home from between these diverse experiences. In turn, this provides new knowledge and understanding of the physical and cultural terrain of both countries. Within my studio work I have used this approach to create or reinvent layered landscapes through my personal experiences and memories in order to explore how a contingent, illusive/elusive ‘home’, that has also performed the role of a mythical symbol of refuge in the Vietnamese diaspora, has been inexorably linked to identity and belonging.
In my written work undertaken as part of the process of this candidature I have also examined the ways in which narratives of personal journeys within the diaspora experience have been described in ways that have avoided the usual negative associations of ‘refugee status’, and that have instead been undertaken via a more positive approach to interpreting that role as akin to that of the ‘explorer’.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland College of Art, Griffith UniversityArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Beyond the Dialectical: An Exploration of Spatial Representation in Contemporary Art Practice
No full textThis research explores the spatial options that exist beyond conventional dualisms. Specifically, this exegesis is the result of four years of studio and theoretical research surrounding the research question: How can a Third Spatial Position enable contemporary art practice to move beyond conventional spatial dialectics?
This research is organised around four major components. Firstly, I introduce a series of theoretical findings to demonstrate the possible existence of a Third Spatial Position that is based on in-between space, and can be described as transitional, situational, open and indeterminate. Secondly, I examine the role of space in major shifts of art practice since 1960 to demonstrate that spatial dualisms featured prominently in these art practices and limited their attempt to contextualise themselves outside of the boundaries conventionally ascribed to art. Thirdly, I provide an analysis of key contemporary artworks by international artists that demonstrate an uneasy relationship with spatial dualisms and substantial tendencies towards adopting a Third Spatial Position. Finally, I provide an overview of my own studio output over the course of my candidature. As I describe, these works deconstruct the physical and conceptual structure of spatial representation, through emphasising the indeterminate and open nature of space, thus revealing the Third Spatial Position.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
On an Account of Seeing and Not Seeing: Drawing as an Embodied Experience
No full textThis research project takes drawing as the exemplar to investigate the correlation between vision and blindness, memory and remembering, and that which is determined by haptic and sensory perception. Drawing operates as the means and the medium to interrogate the subject of perception and ‘ocularcentrism’, a paradigm that has historically privileged sight as the dominant sense.
As part of my studio research, I examined the work and methods of specific contemporary artists who forego sight (metaphoric and actual), giving preference to those investigations that reference the body as the site of perception. This initiated my research into Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological conception of the body as “reversible flesh”, which contextualises drawing as embodied experience.
The studio practice, a significant component of the research project that focuses on the object as a mnemonic device, has led me to consider ideas of seeing through non-seeing. I have incorporated the act of drawing blind, a metaphoric blindness that both sees and does not see, as the means to reflectively consider memory as an attribute of perception and as a process of engaging the body as the site of perception.
Throughout the exegesis, I interweave key writings by Hélène Cixous, who addresses the philosophical questions relating to perception, writing, and drawing through self-reflection in Stigmata: Escaping Text. This led me to question what is it that we see and cannot see, and is blindness at the heart of vision. These questions, in turn, address my enquiry into the subject of perception, of vision and blindness, and of memory.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
The Constructed Forest: Weaving Landscape, Pattern and Ideas in Contemporary Art
No full textThis research is relevant to the broader discussion of how culture and nature interact, by analysing and demonstrating how artworks can shed light on the ideas that contribute to longstanding and culturally deep-rooted attitudes to nature. The project questions if artworks can simultaneously trigger and blend ideas that are, in Western art, associated with either the natural or the cultural so as to erode categorical distinctions.
This exegesis examines the ways concepts of nature and culture have played out in artworks over time, focusing on the Western motif of the forest. It explores how contemporary Australian artists have offered platforms to explain aspects of the complex relationship between people and their environment. This research investigates how the visual language of artworks (in particular, motifs, aesthetic conventions, and scale) can clarify how cultural ideas and values have been overlaid on the natural environment of the forest. It examines how traditional ideas of culture and nature are organised into strands of meaning that act as connective threads, linking the past and present.
In contemporary artworks, these strands are woven together with new ideas to offer alternative ways of visualising the relationship between culture and nature. The resulting artworks give voice to ideas that transgress the traditional limits of culture and nature categories, thus shifting meanings and blurring boundaries.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Remembered Imaginings, Imagined Realities: Investigating the Shifting Relationship between Reality and Imagination in Autobiograhical Memory and the Potential Role that a Creative Arts Practice Can Play in that Process
No full textIn this studio-based research project, the theoretical and creative research combine to speculate that, far from being a passive repository of the past, memory is future-focused and generative. Through our memory, we can plan for and materialise our future. Additionally we have the capacity to retrospectively alter our past, introducing small fictions that alter the nature of our subjective reality in the present. Through an investigation of the methods employed by a number of contemporary artists, in addition to an analysis and discussion of the studio methods and methodology refinements developed during this research, this project argues that visual arts practice acts as both a catalyst and a generative force in this process of change The research explores the means by which artists interrogate the fictive nature of memory, the borderland between the real and the simulacrum, and the capacity of art to create 'that which did not previously exist', in concept, in consciousness, and in materiality.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Recycled Narratives: Contemporary Jewellery - Material Culture - Praxis
No full textThis exegesis outlines research undertaken in the studio in tandem with the study of theoretical texts along with analysis of work by contemporary artists and metalsmiths. My studio approach is framed within ethical approaches to use of material and sustainable practices in production. The use of non-precious materials in contemporary jewellery is well established as a method to critique preciousness and question value, as is the reuse and repair of component parts of existing jewellery part of a global recycle movement across many disciplines. The work created in this project aims to investigate a wider use of humble materials and broken or discarded consumer objects by investigating the potential for exploiting their symbolic power and functional possibilities through reimagining as well as repurposing as jewellery. In demonstrating that jewellery can offer a critical reflection on contemporary society this project aims to also reinvigorate the important role jewellery has played as a key conveyance at the intersection of materials, the symbolic order and social, economic and environmental values.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
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