Mapping Identity: Relationships Between In/Out Space

Date of Award

2009

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Freedland, Barry

Keywords

Performance Art, Feminism, Sexual Body, Identity Construction

Area of Concentration

Art

Abstract

In this thesis, I explore my identity and interactions between the audience and my work in three installations and three performances. I define inward/outward space as an interaction between something private or intimate with something public or distant that creates a dialogue or tension that makes an inbetween space. The installations include sculpture, painting, video and audio work. The performances involve an interplay between my body and a sculpture designed for my body's dimensions. Often there is atension in my work between how I construct my identity and how others perceive it. I work with this tension by directly addressing the viewer in my installations through speech or written phrases. In doing this, I hope to inform the viewer about identity construction. My projects are in conversation with late-20th century American body, performance, and women artists. Through these installations and performances, I hope to create an interactive dialogue between the viewer and myself.

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