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The research component, "Body and Soul", is an interdisciplinary, comparative study of the essay form, focusing on the Weimar period. The essay is a marginal literary genre, which, like much documentary style photography, attempts "the imaginative recreation of a culture, a period or an individual". August Sander's photographic opus, People of the 20th Century and Robert Musil's essayistic novel, The Man Without Qualities invite comparison as complex and problematic portraits of their respective societies. Sander's typological portraits are well known and his legacy informs much of contemporary documentary photography. Sixty images were published in 1929 by Kurt Wolff, Transmare Verlag, Munich, as Antlitz der Zeit (Face of Our Time) with an introduction by Alfred D??blin. The rust two volumes of Robert Musil's, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities), were published in 1930 and 1932 by Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg. Recent publication of new editions of both Musil's and Sander's works prompted the attempt to reconcile two portraits of people and events of the early decades of the 20th Century in Germany and Austria. The essay form in literature and the documentary style in photography are examined with regard to the polemic associated with truth and reality. This review attempts to illustrate the inevitable inclusion of the fictional element into the fabric of both forms of investigation. The study concludes with a review of contemporary art practice in photo-documentary and some thoughts on future developments. The studio component, "Dargan", is a photographic essay of a site in the Blue Mountains West of Sydney. Focusing on relics of industrial activity in the region, and their effects on the landscape, large format colour photographs were produced to establish a documentary style body of work for exhibition as large-scale colour analogue prints. The work is the response to a need to engage with the Australian landscape and to establish a sustainable practice that recognises and takes into account an ambivalent relationship with "country".

Professional paper (M Nursing)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2009. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Sandra Kuntz. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 35-37).

Thesis (MA (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (BTech (Surface Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010 / Forms of body adornment and scarification practices have been around since the origin of mankind. Many forms of traditional body adornment have evolved overtime and still exist within our mainstream society today, however examples of recent body adornments, show that although still very much in practice, in many cases the meaning has been lost. The motivational routes of western adornments are today based on what looks good as apposed to a ritual or right of passage that marks one's body for life. Therefore, the aim of this dissertation is to share the value of representation with the viewer - as representation has played, and continues to play, such an important role within the social aspect of mankind. Bycreating a link between traditional practices of African body adornmentl scarification and connecting these with body expression and representation within my own sub-cultural context, I hope to create awareness of body adornment throughout time. Finally the practical component of this research will consist of a portfolio of different photographs and videos documenting the process and completion of adorning different female bodies. These works of art will be traditionally inspired, nonpermanent three-dimensional body art that will also undoubtedly represent selfexpression and comment on 'trendv' sub-cultural society. As Idocument my progress and work it is hoped that I portray in a conceptual framework, a life cycle that comments on the evolution of culture from rural to urban, and from traditional to Western, and how Western lifestyle is diluting our social being with trends rather than using the method of body adornment as a cultural conversation.

This thesis examines the performance art of Serbian artist Marina Abramović from 2010 to today following her emergence into mainstream media with the success of her performance The Artist Is Present (2010). This thesis investigates Abramović’s approach to performance and how the roles of artist and viewer change in face of increased fame, documentation, and age. The thesis argues that as Abramović ages, she is becoming increasingly preoccupied with her fame and with securing her legacy and that this concern is reflected by her increased documentation and self-promotion, as well as her interest in transitioning into the role of teacher rather than artist. This thesis ends with an optimistic look at the opening of The Marina Abramović Institute in late 2015 as a new type of institute in which Abramović's presence and legacy will be mediated not through the static and limited representation of photographs and relics but by the experiences and actions of the visitors themselves.

Pokot female body art identifies a woman’s beauty, husband, and social rank among the Pokot community through color, pattern, and mass. In the last sixty years, as a result of Kenya’s entrance into the global economy, Pokot women have turned a “traditional” art form into a commodity, creating a product for Western tourists that, in turn, provides Pokot women with a means to earn income that is less readily under male control. Pokot women consciously create beadwork that alludes to the “Idea of Africa,” while also conforming to Western standards of “colonial chic.” The result is a body art that visualizes a harmonious interaction between “exotic” and “modern.” This thesis argues that with the successful integration of beadwork into the global market, Pokot women have strategically identified an alternative to their traditional, gender-related power constraints and challenged historical constructions of Pokot gender identity.

La série performative La Réincarnation de Sainte-ORLAN, réalisée de 1990-1993, trace le devenir-cyborg de l'artiste française ORLAN. À cheval entre le body art et le bioart, l'artiste explore le corps-machine à travers une pratique qu'elle désigne d'art charnel. Ces performances opérations se développent autour de deux axes, soit la mise en scène de la chirurgie esthétique et la création d'autoportraits. Le présent mémoire réfléchit toutefois à la métamorphose de l'artiste en soi. ORLAN emprunte le chemin houleux de l'expérimentation et explore les diverses déclinaisons du techno-corps. En puisant dans le riche imaginaire de la posthumanité, peuplé de potentialités, de futurs et d'utopies, l'artiste s'hybride à l'autre technologique et révèle un devenir-minoritaire. Pour ce faire, le nomadisme identitaire de la philosophe Rosi Braidotti sert d'outil d'analyse afin de déterminer la valeur politique et la portée symbolique de la métamorphose. Chaperonnée par les écrits de Luce Irigaray et de Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, elle situe le « sensible » au cœur d'une stratégie d'affirmation féministe et de désengagement de l'ordre phallique. Sa figure de prédilection, le nomade, succède ainsi au féminin de sa prédécesseure belge et reconduit la logique déterritorialisante du devenir du duo Deleuze-Guattari. Par conséquent, ORLAN met en scène la figure du cyborg élaborée par Donna Haraway. Dans la mouvance de l'art posthumain, l'artiste fait valoir des expériences aux limites de la condition humaine. D'une performance opération s'articulant sur la chair de l'artiste surgit paradoxalement une expérience de dépouillement. Émergent ainsi le vertige et l'abject, affects initiant potentiellement une mutation identitaire chez l'artiste et le sujet regardant. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : ORLAN, posthumanisme, féminisme, cyborg, devenir

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 270-303) Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 270-303) Also available online.