Body, Mat, Mark-Making

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dc.contributor.advisorLau, Yam K.
dc.creatorHarber, Scott
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:34:56Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:34:56Z
dc.date.copyright2015-04-16
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:34:55Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractI explore painting and drawing through a binding of its performative activity with the practice of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Constraints are put in place to impose constant and abrupt switching between mark-making and grappling activity. The repetition involved in this structure fuses these two distinct activities into one. The experience of mushin (no-mind), a state one enters when deeply immersed in martial art activity, overlaps into the process of mark-making. This experience of mark-making subsequently influences the activity on the mat. Affect, as a pre-cognitive entity, participates alongside conscious activity in this feedback loop of influences. From this view, I revisit the idea of constraint and mushin. The resulting works depict fragmented bodies-in-process, produced under a state of mushin that involves the constrained combination of unconscious and conscious, mental and bodily influences.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30064
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subject.keywordsArt
dc.subject.keywordsVisual arts
dc.subject.keywordsDrawing
dc.subject.keywordsPainting
dc.subject.keywordsMark-making
dc.subject.keywordsMartial arts
dc.subject.keywordsBrazilian jiu-jitsu
dc.subject.keywordsBJJ
dc.subject.keywordsJudo
dc.subject.keywordsYves klein
dc.subject.keywordsConstraints
dc.subject.keywordsMushin
dc.subject.keywordsZen
dc.subject.keywordsAffect
dc.subject.keywordsMassumi
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance
dc.subject.keywordsBody
dc.subject.keywordsMat
dc.titleBody, Mat, Mark-Making
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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