My Master of Fine Arts research project focuses on installation and sculpture that embodies the themes of Buddhism and War. My artwork examines how the two themes interact and influence each other. Making art, for me, is an intensely personal process of rediscovering myself. The project is an attempt to create a visual conversation between my personal experiences, memories and imagination. In particular, I explore the collective memory of the people of Hue in relation to the immediate past, and the longer historical heritage of the city and the region. Chapter One provides a background to my personal experiences of growing up in Hue, Vietnam, during a time of war. This is a relevant starting point as these experiences have shaped my life and my art practice. This chapter begins with my childhood and charts my journey into art education. Visual art is the form and methodology by which I can best express my thoughts, dreams, and reflections. Through sculpture I can share my own vision and thoughts with people from different cultural backgrounds, ideally reaching beyond existing socio-cultural boundaries. It is a personal journey that has led me toward the path of re-discovering my inner world and awakening a forward-looking perspective. Chapter Two explores the influence Buddhist philosophy has on my art practice. This chapter also discusses the work of four contemporary artists who are primarily concerned with themes of Buddhism and war. Through this research I explore how the philosophy of Buddhism gave me a new perspective on how an artist can live completely in the present, while building a bridge between the past and the future through creative practice. Buddhism is a process of everyday transformation; in practice it is an attempt to forge new beginnings in every facet of daily life. Chapter Three discusses my earlier sculpture and installation artworks. I then examine how this led me to collaborate with other international contemporary artists who share a common aesthetic or theme. Chapter Four examines my current art practice and discuss how I see it shaping my future art practice.

Modal Auxiliary is an assembly of pseudo-machines and environments that lack any apparent purpose or strict mechanical function. Explicit purpose or function, the characteristics usually associated with machines, has been pushed aside by the pseudo-machines dysfunctional abstract nature and their attendant environments in order to invite questioning.

If everything human is pathetic, being a kind of sorrow packaged in humor, then I am fascinated with making artwork about the human condition that breeches pathos and hilarity. I propose to trace my motivation and research that have coalesced to create this thesis exhibition, shame is an exposure, to contemporary discourse regarding abject art. The motivation behind this exhibition seats itself in narratives excorsizing my own neurosis regarding intimacy, exposure, and shame. Through the exploration of photography and sculpture installation, using found objects, abject narratives spring into surreal life in a magic sort of realism. These works bear witness to uncanny, abstracted, spaces highlighting real human pathos, and vulnerability.

This arts-based thesis is a culmination of how I explore the condition of being mortal through artwork which includes the use of animal bones and religion. This examination will determine how my future art curriculum may help students think in personal and spiritual which provides critical thinking and personal growth.

If everything human is pathetic, being a kind of sorrow packaged in humor, then I am fascinated with making artwork about the human condition that breeches pathos and hilarity. I propose to trace my motivation and research that have coalesced to create this thesis exhibition, shame is an exposure, to contemporary discourse regarding abject art. The motivation behind this exhibition seats itself in narratives excorsizing my own neurosis regarding intimacy, exposure, and shame. Through the exploration of photography and sculpture installation, using found objects, abject narratives spring into surreal life in a magic sort of realism. These works bear witness to uncanny, abstracted, spaces highlighting real human pathos, and vulnerability.

Modal Auxiliary is an assembly of pseudo-machines and environments that lack any apparent purpose or strict mechanical function. Explicit purpose or function, the characteristics usually associated with machines, has been pushed aside by the pseudo-machines dysfunctional abstract nature and their attendant environments in order to invite questioning.

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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Marburg/Lahn--Philipps-Universität, 1981. / Bibliogr. p. 174-186. Index. Table des ill.

Habil.-Schr.: Diss.--Universität Bern, 199? / Résumés en anglais et en français. Bibliogr. p. 140-141. Index.

Dissertation--Philosophische Fakultät--Bonn--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Köln, Wintersemester 1990/91. / Notes bibliogr. Index.