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From Protests to Pomegranates

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dc.contributor.advisorCouroux, Marc G.
dc.creatorBaba, Nedda
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-27T16:40:55Z
dc.date.available2018-08-27T16:40:55Z
dc.date.copyright2018-04-20
dc.date.issued2018-08-27
dc.date.updated2018-08-27T16:40:55Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThis paper was written as a support for my thesis exhibition entitled From Protests to Pomegranates. The creation of this work is situated in a context of postcolonial diasporic life in Canada post-9/11. In this text I ruminate on origins, objects, and transformative possibilities. These objects, which consist of various fruits and drafting tools, all have ancestral ties. I engage in repetitive play with them, recalling memories along the way, in an effort to undo inclinations to belonging and to settle in diaspora, queerly. The three-day performative exhibition primarily consists of a series of large-scale photographs of playful hand gestures with these ancestral objects. The photographs are repeatedly wheat-pasted and torn off the walls. It also includes acrylic models of drafting stencils morphed after my grandfathers set of drafting tools, and conversations to be shared with gallery patrons over a bowl of freshly deseeded pomegranates.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35010
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectMiddle Eastern studies
dc.subject.keywordsFine arts
dc.subject.keywordsVisual art
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance
dc.subject.keywordsPhotography
dc.subject.keywordsImages
dc.subject.keywordsQueer
dc.subject.keywordsOrientations
dc.subject.keywordsDiaspora
dc.subject.keywordsMiddle east
dc.subject.keywordsIraq
dc.subject.keywordsIran
dc.subject.keywordsAssyrian
dc.subject.keywordsGenocide
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.subject.keywordsMemory
dc.subject.keywordsRepetition
dc.subject.keywordsObjects
dc.subject.keywordsPomegranates
dc.subject.keywordsPlay
dc.titleFrom Protests to Pomegranates
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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