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Thesis (M.A. (Drama))--Rhodes University, 2006.

Buy Nathan Sharratt: A Requirement of the Masters of Fine Arts degree of Georgia State University, is a multidiscipline and multiplatform exhibition of post-institutional critique that uses my lived experience of being an academic artist pursuing a terminal art degree at a public university as its point of departure. It evaluates how societal expectations influence the formation of individual and group identity in mediated culture. Buy Nathan Sharratt challenges the hierarchy of economic and social value systems by simulating an institutional museum retrospective of super-famous and super-commoditized artist “Nathan Sharratt.” The exhibition is divided into a gallery space, a project space, a gift shop, and a virtual space. It includes art objects and performances to pose that the art experience has been compressed into a simulation, in which art serves as the trigger for social networking and virtual experiences, rather than critical assessment.

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This paper is a critical look at video and performance arts intrinsic relationship to culture. Investigations of storytelling, personal mythology, fear, and image saturation. Think-pieces on the nature of art in an entertainment society. Juggling a brief overview of various works and their relation to over arching themes of game theory, dark humor, and fascination with media. An in depth look at the process of the thesis show, "Defense is the Best Defense." Multiple takes on the thesis exhibit counterbalance the need for contemporary art to include description. This paper is a detailed look at the process of Ryan Mulligan's artwork and methods of materials. Ryan Mulligan's work takes the form of performance lectures, video, and installations. Here the intuitive is dismissed and a demystifying approach to describing production and theory bridges a gap in contemporary literature on art making. Anecdotal stories on process, desires, thrusts, and methods illuminate an any-means-necessary artistic approach.

I have gained control over a whole space through the use of video projections, soundscaping and various other materials including some interactive media, enabling me to give the audience a fuller sensual experience. Multi‐media has made it possible for artists such as myself to create artworks that require more than a visual conversation with the viewer. The manipulation of memory by time became a physical manifestation in the environments that I create with the use of multi‐media installations.

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Dissertation in fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in Fine Arts by coursework and research report at the University of the Witwatersrand 2014 / My research intends to appropriate and recast Jacques Derrida’s ideas by seeking to interpret the written text as supplementary to photographic images. I use a close reading of Judith Coullie’s introductory text to Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography (2006) to explore Santu Mofokeng’s representation of his biography and autobiography. Through selected works by Mofokeng, I highlight photographic ways and writing modes of expressing and locating his voice, drawing on the artist’s own subjective reality, memory and metaphor. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in conjunction with the introductory text to Selves in Question serve to provide much historical evidence and contexts to the complexities of writing a personal narrative in an exploration of freedom within the confines of oppression. I nevertheless acknowledge that some narratives are heavily dependent on a collaborative relationship. The negotiated different moments and perspectives that make up various presented narratives are born from spaces and places that act as intersections within the private and public in a constant state of stasis and movement..

Material acondicionado em caixa / Orientador: Carminda Mendes André / Banca: Celso Fernando Favaretto / Banca: Lúcio José de Sá Leitão Agra / Resumo: As propostas de intervenção urbana apontam possibilidades de reinvenção poética dos espaços das cidades, integrando arte e vida e promovendo encontros, jogos, exercícios éticos e experiências de alteridade que desequilibram o cotidiano ordenado, planejado, produtivo e vigiado das cidades globais espetaculares. Através de narrativas de experiências intervencionistas, em sua maioria, vivenciadas como integrante do Coletivo Mapa Xilográfico, a pesquisa objetivou aproximar-se das práticas de intervenções a partir dos enfrentamentos gerados pela disputa simbólica no urbano, bem como nos desdobramentos espaciais, temporais, subjetivos e memoriais das rupturas produzidas. Inspirado em exercícios de derivas, o trabalho foi concebido de forma não linear, possibilitando caminhos diversos de leitura, em busca de fomentar conexões autônomas entre narrativas e conceitos / Resumen: Las propuestas de intervención urbana apuntan posibilidades de reinvención poética de los espacios de las ciudades, integrando arte y vida y promoviendo encuentros, juegos, ejercícios éticos y experiencias de alteridad que desequilibran el cotidiano ordenado, planeado, productivo y vigilado de las ciudades globales espetaculares. A través de narrativas de experiencias intervencionistas, en su mayoria, vivenciadas como integrante del "Coletivo Mapa Xilográfico", la investigación tuvo como objetivo aproximarse de las prácticas de intervenciones a partir de los enfrentamientos generados por la disputa simbólica en las zonas urbanas urbanas, asi como en los despliegues espaciales, temporales, subjetivos y memoriales de las rupturas producidas. Inspirado en ejercícios de derivas, el trabajo fue concebido de forma no lineal, posibilitando diversos caminos de lectura, buscando fomentar conexiones autónomas entre narrativas y conceptos / Mestre