That Thing: Confronting Difficult Trauma

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dc.contributor.advisorLau, Yam K.
dc.contributor.authorWunderink, Rachelle Gerine
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T15:19:02Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T15:19:02Z
dc.date.copyright2021-05
dc.date.issued2021-11-15
dc.date.updated2021-11-15T15:19:02Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractSociety censors, rather than confronts, stories of rape and harassment. Rachelle Wunderinks thesis work unveils the consequences of sexual assault trauma by forcing viewers to engage with the emotional affect. She does this in three key ways throughout her body of work: Blankouts, an immersive wheat-pasted installation, which looks at the covert ways in which society suppresses womens stories of assault through the use of coded language and censorship. Secondly, Trauma Embodied, looks at how the artist self- censors her own stories through a multi-layered editing process of eight different videos. Lastly, in Wunderinks thesis exhibition, That Thing: Confronting Difficult Trauma, the artist activates the gallery space creating various modes of interaction with the work engaging her audience to consider the ways in which the work imprints on their own experiences.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38665
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectArt criticism
dc.subject.keywordsAffect theory
dc.subject.keywordsrape
dc.subject.keywordssexual assault
dc.subject.keywordsArt therapy
dc.subject.keywordsfine arts
dc.subject.keywordsart
dc.subject.keywordsinstallation
dc.subject.keywordsnew media
dc.subject.keywordsvideo art
dc.subject.keywordstrauma
dc.subject.keywordstherapy
dc.titleThat Thing: Confronting Difficult Trauma
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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