Incorporating the live human body into a work of art involves additional risks that go beyond those normally associated with presenting three dimensional art objects and two dimensional works. Taking these added physical hazards into account, this research project has further developed the idea and experience of risk in performance art, incorporating fibre tectile forms, to intensify and extend the performers' corporeal presence. By focusing on potentially threatening forces that are played out in the performance of the face and the mouth, risk becomes an underlying and potent strength. / Thesis (MVisualArtsbyResearch)--University of South Australia, 2008.

Thesis (MVisualArts)--University of South Australia, 1992.

This thesis examines the politics of twenty-first century ???guerrilla??? performance. It historicises site-specific, political performance by examining ???guerrilla??? art forms from the 1960s to the present. It argues that recent community-based, site-specific performance events can be seen as a ???new??? type of guerrilla work, as they utilise techniques which challenge public space, authorship and control without resorting to traditional guerrilla forms of didactic street protest. The author establishes two main political tactics of the community-based guerrilla artist. The first is the utilisation of a problematised definition of ???community??? and the second is an understanding of physical, conceptual and experiential ???space??? as open to intervention. Community-based performance and site-specific art practices are investigated and space and community are placed into critical theoretical frameworks using post-structural and spatiality theory. The author then argues that post-structured communities which are based on an ethics of difference can trouble and create site, conceptual space and place (site/concept/place) through contemporary guerrilla performance events. Three examples of community-based guerrilla performance in Australia are examined. The first case study explores Western Sydney based Urban Theatre Projects and their 1997 performance event TrackWork. The second focuses on community-based hip-hop artist Morganics and his facilitation of two hip-hop tracks Down River and The Block in 2001. The third considers US theatre director Peter Sellars??? problematic curation of the 2002 Adelaide Festival of the Arts. In all three case studies, guerrilla artists are shown working with post-structured communities to challenge and trouble site/concept/place in order to improve the lives of their participants and audiences. This thesis proposes new post-structural frameworks for the powerful presence of community and site in performance events, thus contributing to performance and cultural studies and to the emerging field of community-based performance scholarship.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-99).

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. / Vita. Abstract. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 19-20).

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 2, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-124). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR29272

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 12).

Thesis (M. Ed.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1991. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2749. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-95).