Submitted by Erika Demachki (erikademachki@gmail.com) on 2014-12-30T18:43:27Z No. of bitstreams: 3 Dissertação - Eduardo Araujo de Avila - 2014 - parte 01.pdf: 8646531 bytes, checksum: 2d251c318b31526d24e9168520afd0df (MD5) Dissertação - Eduardo Araujo de Avila - 2014 - parte 02.pdf: 17246080 bytes, checksum: 67dcd9e7820c5cc116d527a40d07cc51 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Erika Demachki (erikademachki@gmail.com) on 2014-12-30T18:43:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 3 Dissertação - Eduardo Araujo de Avila - 2014 - parte 01.pdf: 8646531 bytes, checksum: 2d251c318b31526d24e9168520afd0df (MD5) Dissertação - Eduardo Araujo de Avila - 2014 - parte 02.pdf: 17246080 bytes, checksum: 67dcd9e7820c5cc116d527a40d07cc51 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-30T18:43:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Dissertação - Eduardo Araujo de Avila - 2014 - parte 01.pdf: 8646531 bytes, checksum: 2d251c318b31526d24e9168520afd0df (MD5) Dissertação - Eduardo Araujo de Avila - 2014 - parte 02.pdf: 17246080 bytes, checksum: 67dcd9e7820c5cc116d527a40d07cc51 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work presents the outcomes of a research master’s degree in Art and Visual Culture, which consists of experiments in printmaking and in studies on the use of foldings as matrices, whose poetic concept is defined as “gravobraduras”. The study has as reference the wrapping culture (tsutsumu bunka), which involves not only the study of origami, but also about other practices, such as furoshiki, that include the production of involucres and wrappings. The reference in question alludes to “practice of Japanese gift” and the artistic production of this work to the “wanderings of Japanese immigrants in Brazil”. Therefore, the primary objective of this research is to analyze what are the paths, sometimes errant sometimes constant, in which the image generated by the “matrix folding” travels up to become a visual pattern, but also evaluate the development of the artistic production in three methods of printing: by high relief (matrix folding), by permeation (silkscreen) and by digital means. The research also involves reflections on artistic creation as creating networks, according to Cecilia Salles, who emphasizes that are important the concomitant actions and the establishment of links between relevant subjects to the research to generate its own methodology and poetic. / Este trabalho apresenta os (des)dobramentos de uma pesquisa de mestrado em Arte e Cultura Visual, que consiste nas experimentações em gravura e nos estudos sobre o uso de dobraduras como matrizes, cujo conceito poético é definido como “gravobraduras”. O estudo tem como referencial a cultura do invólucro (tsutsumu bunka), e que envolve não apenas os estudos sobre origami, mas também sobre outras práticas, como o furoshiki, que abrangem técnicas de produção de envoltórios e embrulhos. O referencial em questão alude à “prática japonesa de presentear” e a produção artística deste trabalho às “errâncias dos imigrantes japoneses pelo Brasil”. Assim sendo, o objetivo primordial dessa pesquisa é analisar quais são os trajetos, ora errantes ora constantes, que a imagem gerada pela “matriz dobrada” percorre até tornar-se um padrão visual. Também avaliar o desenvolvimento da produção artística em três métodos de impressão: por alto relevo (matriz dobrada), por permeação (serigrafia) e por meio digital (sublimação). A pesquisa também envolve reflexões sobre a criação artística como redes de criação que, segundo Cecília Salles, destaca como importantes as ações concomitantes e o estabelecimento de nexos entre assuntos relevantes à pesquisa para a geração de metodologia e poética próprias.

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M. Tech. (Department of Visual Arts and Design, Faculty of Human Sciences),Vaal University of Technology. / The sangoma cloth is one of the objects which the Zulu people use to utilised in terms of culture and tradition and still is significant amongst African diviners. Initially, sangomas (traditional healers/diviners) dressed in animal skin, but because of the lack or deficiency of the animal skin, the cloth substituted the skin. The cloth carries a wealth of sacred symbolism and meanings which have been constructed by the sangoma community to best fit or describe the symbolic meanings and the potencies embedded in them. However, such cultural artefacts and symbols change over time, and new ones emerge through cultural practice. Therefore, the tension between conserving the religious and sacred, on the one hand, and the emerging, context and contingency based development on the other leads to problems of acceptability, authorized use and sanctified adaptation. This project explores the symbolism in the meaning and function of the sangoma sacred cloth which forms part of the sangoma dress code. It sets out three sets of interwoven binaries or tensions. Firstly, it explores the tensions between the liminal of ritual practices, and the liminoid (following Turner 1969), so that the second set of tensions, namely between the sacred and the profane (or secular or the commodified) can be explored. This leads to the third set of tensions, namely between Indigenous Knowledge Systems on the one hand and a potential Global Knowledge System on the other. In this way the tensions in the use of the sangoma cloth was explored, to attempt to determine a system that would assist in defining at what moment and following what dynamics the symbology would move from one side of the set of tensions to the other. The artist/researcher worked together with a focus group of sangomas who are part of a nongovernmental organization are based in Sedibeng region. This study’s research methodology is a Practice-led research approach within the framework of qualitative research methodology in the Fine Arts. The first method of data collection included one-on-one interviews from which the data was analysed and from which the existing designs could be reworked into new ones. Following this, a series of design and artmaking processes were followed, where five original cloth designs were taken through six different redesign iterations. The third method was a focus group method where the focus group participants (consisting of the original sangoma community, but with a ritual to request insight from the ancestors/amadlozi and therefore their contributions) was employed to view the five sets of redesigned cloths, to attempt to establish the moment when the Indigenous Knowledge System and the sacred of the sangoma cloth enters the secular domain which forms part of Global Knowledge Systems. The research project offers one system or methodology which is based on comparison as presented by the community who claim originality, in that the community itself decide when something needs to be protected by IKS and when it may be allowed to move into a public, shared, domain. The findings of this project were done by the owners of the cloth which resulted in them stating that: to claim IKS, one has to make an inquiry with the community who owns it; one cannot claim an entire design as IKS due to the composition or design having individual elements which have distinct meanings; The element of colour plays a dominant role within the sangoma community; and finally, for this project a clear and powerful system of humanity was set out by the sangomas/amadlozi that the sacredness of the cloth lies with the human who wears or uses it, and not with the cloth itself.

The self portrait is a consistent aspect of art history, with many artists returning to it again and again across their lives. This project intends to explore the function of the self portrait. Through research and execution of artwork, the artist has found that the self portrait has multiple functions, including: a practice of anatomy; a display of status, skill, and likeness; an outlet for emotion; and a place for psychological confrontation. Across the life of this project, the artist completed twenty-two self portraits in a variety of styles and materials.

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The artist, Delaney Shae Rogers, discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Endo / Exo, held at the Tipton Gallery in downtown Johnson City, TN. The exhibition dates are from March 25th through April 5th, 2024, with a public reception held April 5th, 2024. The author provides insight into the concept behind the work in the exhibition and shares how the making process and specific materials impact the work. This body of work explores coping with grief, anxiety, and the state of the world through the process of making and communicating otherwise difficult topics through visually digestible symbolic language.