Latitudinaria* explores and critiques the ambivalence between current technological progress and the consequently depersonalised social structures and systems. I am using the development from mechanical Automata to mass production juxtaposed to Charlie Chaplin??s film and Jean Tinguelys kinetic art, as examples for the change of the social condition from the industrialisation to the current post-industrial era. The change of social condition I refer to as the ??depersonalisation?? or ??dehumanisation?? effect supported by my working experiences in the health system. The ??medicalisation of the life span?? and the discrepancy of creating a sustainable future less profit orientated are two indicators of how far we have been removed from our bodies. These observations are supported by the writing of Ivan Illich??s Medical Nemesis and Frank Schirrmachers?? analysis of the change of the social structure using the family configuration as an example. These conceptual ideas are visualised by a selection of kinetic art works and video installations. In the heart of this body of work is the process-orientated documentation of Zero AGL project. The project documents the journey of a discarded airplane that was re-assembled and reanimated by myself and a group of volunteers supported by local businesses. The struggle of the group of people stands as a metaphor for the current dilemma of the restricted usage of public space. Further it reflects on my own limitations dealing with the Australian outback culture and the transition of my own sculptural practice from small scale art works into the arena of life size public Art. Those experiences shaped the process and the direction of the project. The motivation for the creation of the body of kinetic sculptures and video installation is to highlight the absurdity of social constructed categories and controlling systems in a post-industrial society. The subject matter focuses on the social construction of the categories of the ??Norm?? and the limitations of failure. Latitudinaria gives the audience a lateral view on how human betterment is not always essentially connected to technological progress but on transforming ideas and enhancing it from a different point of view. * freedom from normal restraints, limitations and regulations.

Contents: Body dissatisfaction; Discharge of emotion through art; Stigmas' consequences as captured through photography; Lauren Greenfield; The perceptions of others; This is beautiful; Psychological consequences; Thesis project: "Being There"; Artistic influences; "Being There" revisited; Past endeavors in mixed media; Artistic influences: everyday materials and structural art; Conclusion; Honors in Studio Art thesis extension; Works cited. Includes 21 images.

Thesis (M.V.A.)--University of Sydney, 2009. / Title from title screen (viewed November 26, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts to the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references.

Latitudinaria* explores and critiques the ambivalence between current technological progress and the consequently depersonalised social structures and systems. I am using the development from mechanical Automata to mass production juxtaposed to Charlie Chaplin??s film and Jean Tinguelys kinetic art, as examples for the change of the social condition from the industrialisation to the current post-industrial era. The change of social condition I refer to as the ??depersonalisation?? or ??dehumanisation?? effect supported by my working experiences in the health system. The ??medicalisation of the life span?? and the discrepancy of creating a sustainable future less profit orientated are two indicators of how far we have been removed from our bodies. These observations are supported by the writing of Ivan Illich??s Medical Nemesis and Frank Schirrmachers?? analysis of the change of the social structure using the family configuration as an example. These conceptual ideas are visualised by a selection of kinetic art works and video installations. In the heart of this body of work is the process-orientated documentation of Zero AGL project. The project documents the journey of a discarded airplane that was re-assembled and reanimated by myself and a group of volunteers supported by local businesses. The struggle of the group of people stands as a metaphor for the current dilemma of the restricted usage of public space. Further it reflects on my own limitations dealing with the Australian outback culture and the transition of my own sculptural practice from small scale art works into the arena of life size public Art. Those experiences shaped the process and the direction of the project. The motivation for the creation of the body of kinetic sculptures and video installation is to highlight the absurdity of social constructed categories and controlling systems in a post-industrial society. The subject matter focuses on the social construction of the categories of the ??Norm?? and the limitations of failure. Latitudinaria gives the audience a lateral view on how human betterment is not always essentially connected to technological progress but on transforming ideas and enhancing it from a different point of view. * freedom from normal restraints, limitations and regulations.

Thesis (MFineArt)--University of Melbourne, VCA Art, The Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-42)

This dissertation develops a history of experimental art emerging in India in the final decades of the twentieth century. It addresses the turn to video, performance and mixed-media installation – conceptually driven, circulation friendly, critical artistic modes – by artists who share a generational consciousness, shaped in part by their class position and metropolitan location. My arguments are constructed through a historical and formal analysis of significant transformations in the works of two Bombay-based artists, Nalini Malani (b. 1946) and Rummana Hussain (1952- 1999), between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s. This post-Emergency period is marked by the spectacle, symbolism and horror of the Babri Masjid demolition (December 1992) and numerous instances of targeted violence against minority communities (1984, 1992-93, 2002). The coinciding legislative passage of economic liberalization (1991) also had far-reaching implications, including a decline in state dominance over culture and artistic patronage. I contend that these dramatic shifts in the market, media and art institutional landscape catalyzed the development of postmodernist art practices. As artists like Malani and Hussain confronted the limitations and failings of their postcolonial, cosmopolitan imaginaries, their artistic responses were driven by the affective and reflexive tendencies of despair and melancholia, enlivening radical praxis in the face of derailments and lost causes. My work problematizes the notion of rupture that has often been deployed in discussions of these artist’s trajectories, referring to the transition from conventional formats of oil painting and sculpture towards expanded media experiments⁠. This study examines both specific shifts and underlying continuities in the formal and conceptual registers of the practices in question, while situating theoretical debates around postmodernism, feminism, periodization and artistic generation in the context of India.

This dissertation is an analysis and critical framing of my recent compositional work, magnolias in bloom (2022) and Weavings (2023), both of which utilize ephemerality as a sonic and physical property to illustrate the content and narrative of the compositions. I give an overview of the last five years of installations, performances, and compositions and highlight ideas of grief, identity, and queerness within my recent work. I investigate how my composition magnolias in bloom uses the ephemeral nature of unfired clay and amplifies the sound it makes when immersed in water as a metaphor for loss and grief. I also look at how the unstable nature of analog modular synthesis, nonlinear modulation, and timbral fluidity contribute to themes of queer theory and identity politics. Through these works, ephemera is left behind in the form of clay and patch cables. At the end of each chapter I examine works that have both influenced and informed my practice and throughout the dissertation, I highlight the writings of José Esteban Muñoz, Pauline Oliveros, and bell hooks to relate their work to my own practice. My analysis of magnolias in bloom and Weavings through a lens of ephemerality draws a connecting thread between the two vastly different compositions.

Ce mémoire est le récit du parcours évolutif d'une démarche artistique dont la mutation vers une pratique hybride engage un questionnement sur des notions faisant appel à la dialectique entre Nature et Culture. Réalisé dans le cadre d'une maîtrise en arts visuels avec mémoire, ce document propose le témoignage d'une réflexion avec un angle d'analyse particulier où la sémantique des mots Recherche et Création prennent tout leur sens. Par différentes stratégies d'intervention, ayant une incidence à portée géo-socio-politique, c'est à titre d'instigateurs que la photographie et l'objet industrialisé sont appelés conjointement à investir tant l'espace galerie que l'espace public en tant que non-site. Par le biais d'un ± arrêt sur image ¿ développé en trois séquences, le lecteur est invité à s'infiltrer au coeur du projet de recherche, à en comprendre les motivations et ses déclencheurs. Pour ce faire, on procède d'abord à l'analyse qui a motivé le choix des matériaux constitutifs du projet tout en discernant leurs propriétés respectives. On s'engage ensuite dans le processus instaurateur de l'oeuvre où on est amené à prendre part aux questionnements que soulèvent les enjeux d'écarts et d'inter-correspondances entre Nature et Culture. Se profile subséquemment l'analyse des procédés instaurés pour en distinguer les caractéristiques architectoniques propres. L'entreprise de cette opération à coeur ouvert plonge le lecteur dans la structure interne de l'oeuvre pour y déceler ses points d'ancrage. En ce sens, ce mémoire témoigne d'un trajet qui conduit à la réalisation d'une oeuvre installative intitulée Bitume, Sillons, Matière qui, par ses détournements in et ex situ, s'inscrit comme étant une intervention posant un regard attentif sur la notion de paysage dont l'une de ses déclinaisons se transpose métaphoriquement en un paysage machiné.

Cette idée d'écrire les traces d'une oeuvre est plutôt séduisante. Mes objets, sujets principaux de ce texte, ont effectivement une belle histoire derrière eux et auront dérivé d'un long processus. Chaque objet se créa tout doucement, en attirant un autre et un autre, d'où la répétition du mot objets dans le titre choisi, jusqu'à avoir sous les yeux un foisonnement dont le rôle est maintenant d'éveiller une curiosité et de transmettre une passion des objets. Un appétit pour les belles choses. À l'image de l'accumulation lente mais continue d'objets, la réflexion qui suit s'articule autour de plusieurs thèmes et enumerations, dressant ainsi une description progressive et linéaire de mes recherches. Il y a aussi une présence intentionnelle de redondances. Souvent, des thèmes et des concepts ont été repris et redits, sous de nouveaux angles, afin d'introduire et d'expliquer d'autres thèmes et concepts avec lesquels ils sont étroitement liés. C'est ni plus ni moins une sorte d'inventaire que j'expose, à l'instar de celui que mes objets proposent.

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