Katelyn Bobek

Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Miles, Stephen

Keywords

Site-Specific, Emancipation, Installation

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

In Site Out is an installation of site-specific film, structured by a practice of emancipation to facilitate a self- directed encounter by the spectator with the work. The goal of this project was to use personal experiences without creating with those materials a universal sense of meaning. In using costuming barriers to abstract and obstruct the body, as well as the installation of multiple screens, I as a spectacle-maker attempt to destabilize my body, making room within it for the spectator to have their own relationship with my space. In writing about In Site Out, I drew off works which exhibited a distinct connection to materials in the site and the material of the body. I use my memories of the site as grounding material which ties the work directly to each place. I film this interaction to create an installation. By focusing on the interiority of my site-specific experience, then framing the by-product in an installation, I hope to create a work of identity which is inclusive of the interior and exterior as fluctuating material both seen and unseen by another person. I tried to engage in an experience of the private within the personal. Framing this site-specific work in an installation, I hope to further my exploration of the emancipated practice within the collective: a practice of being together without becoming one.

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