Dysfunctional examines the relationships and experiences that contribute to my art. I grew up in an unsafe environment, with dysfunctional people. This work serves as a peek inside some of those emotions and explores issues of codependence and abusive family systems that suffer but endure. There is no victim in this story only a strong survivor who wants to cultivate awareness through her work. I have revisited this subject as a way to overcome shame. By being vulnerable and sharing my experiences I am able to heal.

It is a gestural sensibility forever suspended in the material as it cools. With each movement to and fro, I become fully immersed and given over to the activity of glassworking, where the simplest impressions whisper of fantastic melodies. I remain open to it: conducting a collision: a symphony of riffs, vamps and arpeggios. Constructing the chorus in disjunctive phases as if it forms out of its own directive. The polyphonic rhythm of decisions converge into a new composition, now completely obscured from the intro—existing in reference only to itself and you

This thesis examines the extent to which the 1960s process art strand of post-Minimalism can provide an analytical template for critical writing around contemporary ceramic art. A dearth of critical writing is an acknowledged problem in all types of ceramics practice and some of the reasons for this situation will be explored. In the past decade frequent calls have been made by artists, critics, academics, and curators for a body of critical writing to underpin contemporary work and connect with wider cultural debates. During this period, artists have begun to use the process of making the work to form part of the content. Such work has no relationship to traditional studio pottery, and critics have described it as difficult to write about and classify in normative ceramic terms. However, this area of ceramic practice shares characteristics with post-Minimalism, a movement of the 1960s that emphasised the behaviour of materials and the act of making. In The Archaeology of Knowledge the French philosopher Michel Foucault suggests that a new critical language may emerge from the appropriation of other discourses, providing new interpretations for subject areas not yet theoretically mapped out. Foucault’s notions on the formation of discourse are used as a methodological approach to investigate how process-led sculptural ceramics may be articulated by an understanding of post-Minimalist critical writings. A substantial body of critical writing developed around post-Minimalist process art, providing a context for radical new approaches which broke with modernist traditions and which expanded and changed traditional definitions of sculpture. Key post-Minimalist texts are investigated as an analytical template for a new critical discourse for process-led ceramic art. A study of the sculptural ceramics of Richard Deacon and Kosho is undertaken as a means of identifying process-led tendencies and the possibility of a re-conceptualisation from a post-minimalist perspective. An analysis of the role of process within my own practice is used to provide visual evidence of contemporary ceramic work that can be re-conceptualised from a post-Minimalist perspective. After twenty years of stagnant debate in the ceramics field, this research might provide a new critical context for process-led ceramic art. The project shows a way that artists may be empowered to develop a critical literacy in a field that has traditionally lacked a research based approach. It is hoped that it may well encourage other ceramics practitioners to explore new ways of presenting an academic critique of their own area of practice. The contribution to knowledge identifies a new critical context and approach to writing for the process-led area of ceramics practice that is currently described as being difficult to write about, as having no appropriate critical language of its own, and of being difficult to categorise in standard ceramic terms.

This paper is a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological exploration of my MFA thesis project (Dis)connections. My work combines time-based media, objects, and performance into a single installation that represents my struggles with anxiety and my desire to connect with people socially. My work is ultimately about the complexity of the structures of language and communication in all their forms and representations. I draw on research into feminist theory and gender studies as well as cultural theory as a way to ground my work in political and social issues that are continually relevant in Western culture, and to propose that by situating my stories within larger structures of power they have the ability to connect to a wider group of people.

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Submitted by Marta Toyoda (1144061@mackenzie.br) on 2016-12-06T23:11:18Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Breno Bitarello Sad.pdf: 9716725 bytes, checksum: ea32b4ef8a74b3012d89ec9af7453307 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Aline Amarante (1146629@mackenzie.br) on 2016-12-08T16:13:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Breno Bitarello Sad.pdf: 9716725 bytes, checksum: ea32b4ef8a74b3012d89ec9af7453307 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T16:13:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Breno Bitarello Sad.pdf: 9716725 bytes, checksum: ea32b4ef8a74b3012d89ec9af7453307 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-12 / Generally speaking the tattoo is not a practice recognized as belonging to the artistic context, however, its characteristics and behavior of its materials as well as its support enable to relate its process with the process art. Each tattoo should be developed for a particular part of a particular person's body. Therefore, the process becomes specific and dependent on the properties of this body. External factors such as incidence of the sun, scars and artificial light on the tattooed area, as well as internal factors such as metabolism, cell regeneration etc. affect the tattoo constantly. Thus, it can be said that the tattoo is an ongoing process that undergoes changes until the complete destruction of its support, the skin. Reflecting on the tattoo as an open process, this research allows the establishment of relations between the tattoo process and process art. Thus two outstanding points will be developed: (i) moments in which contemporary artists and bioartistas used tattoos on his works and processes will be mapped; (Ii) by recording a theoretical and practical work called biotattoos the tattoo process will be shown and described. The biotattoos are abstract images chosen by the tattoo artist and adapted to fit a given region of the body of a specific person. These are tattoos designed to incorporate variables and changes in their structures during the procedure. The practical step allows to focus on the tattoo not as a finished object finalized in the skin, but rather in all its process. / De modo geral a tatuagem não é uma prática reconhecida como pertencente ao âmbito artístico mas geralmente ao campo da cultura. No entanto, há especificidades da tatuagem que se assemelham as práticas artísticas: o desenho, cores, pintura, composição etc. Além disso, os comportamentos de seus materiais bem como de seu suporte permitem relacionar seu processo com o âmbito da arte contemporânea conhecido como process art que tem como principais questões o comportamento dos materiais e especificidades dos meios bem como a crCada tatuagem deve ser desenvolvida para uma parte específica do corpo de uma determinada pessoa. Logo, o processo torna-se específico e dependente das propriedades deste corpo. Fatores externos como incidência do sol, cicatrizes e luminosidade artificial sobre a região tatuada, bem como fatores internos como metabolismo, regeneração celular afetam a tatuagem constantemente. Deste modo, pode-se dizer que a tatuagem é um processo constante que sofre modificações até a destruição completa de seu suporte, a pele. Ao refletir sobre a tatuagem como um processo aberto, esta pesquisa permite o estabelecimento de relações entre o processo na tatuagem e a process art. Deste modo dois pontos de destaque serão desenvolvidos: (i) serão mapeados momentos nos quais artistas contemporâneos e bioartistas utilizaram tatuagens em suas obras e processos; (ii) através do registro de um trabalho teórico-prático chamado de biotatuagens o processo da tatuagem será apresentado e descrito. As biotatuagens são imagens abstratas escolhidas pelo tatuador e adaptadas para se adequarem a uma dada região do corpo de uma pessoa específica. Tratam-se de tatuagens concebidas de modo a incorporar variáveis e modificações em suas estruturas durante o processo. A etapa prática permite focar na tatuagem não como objeto finalizado na pele, mas antes em todo seu processo.