Associations An Art Thesis

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Freedland, Barry

Keywords

Art, Associations, Constructing Meaning, Performance, Installations, Prints, Sculptures

Area of Concentration

Art

Abstract

Through my performances, installations, prints, and sculptures, I rely on satirical and sometimes dramatic approaches to call attention to the constructed nature of social interaction, and more importantly how social interaction is reflexively constructed. I do this to call attention to how we interpret, catalogue, and make meaning out of the sensory information from our daily experiences, and to call attention to the role associations, symbols, signs, and spatial relationships play in how this meaning gets communicated through interaction. I present this information through four different veins of experience. I use the video medium to present my guerilla street performances. Here the viewer can watch the way others respond to transgressed social boundaries with the distance necessary for reflection. My sculptures present the viewer with products that manifest from the needs of alternative values. Body printed bed sheets bring the private into public by confronting the viewer with a physical remnant from a private act. Lastly, my installations rely on associations with spatial relationships and associations with objects to create environments that produce feelings associated with the break down of the interpretive process.

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