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Creative Matter: Exploring the Co-Creative Nature of Things

This dissertation is about new materialism as it relates to art education. It is a speculative inquiry that seeks to illuminate the interconnectivity of things by considering the ways in which things participate in generative practices of perceiving and making. To do so, the dissertation pioneers an arts-based methodology that allows for broad considerations about who and what can be considered an agent in the process of art making. In this inquiry, the researcher is an artist-participant with other more-than-human and human participants to construct an (im)material autohistoria-teorĂ­a, a revisionist interdisciplinary artwork inspired by the work of AnzaldĂșa. The term w/e is developed and discussed as new language for expanding upon Braidotti's posthumanist subjectivity. New theories called thing(k)ing (including found poetry) and (im)materiality are discussed as movements towards better understanding the contributions of the more-than-human in artmaking practices.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1404623
Date12 1900
CreatorsHood, Emily Jean
ContributorsLewis, Tyson L., Kraehe, Amelia M., Evans, Laura, Keating, AnaLouise
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 130 pages, Text
RightsPublic, Hood, Emily Jean, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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