Don't Let’s Go: Preemptive Grief, a World, and Others

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dc.contributor.advisorLargo, Marissa
dc.contributor.authorFoss, Fehn Mathilda
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-03T11:49:57Z
dc.date.available2023-10-03T11:49:57Z
dc.date.issued2023-04
dc.date.updated2023-10-03T11:49:55Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThis paper is written to accompany my MFA thesis exhibition, the work of holding and exiting, which took place April 10 - May 6, 2023 at shell projects, 13 Mansfield Avenue, Toronto, Canada. The exhibition consisted of lumen prints (a sort of photogram gone wrong), sculptures made from found and discarded materials, and elusive feelings that floated through the space. This paper, “Don’t Let’s Go: Preemptive Grief, A World, and Others” is in a symbiotic relationship with the work of holding and exiting. The paper supplements, is informed by, and informs the work. Grieving the climate crisis can feel diffuse, confusing, and hopeless. The works explored this nebulous grieving through affective means. Artworks that are both abject and beautiful were assembled together in shell projects in a way that asked the viewer to be in intimate relation. The works and the paper search for a more-than-human collectivity. Many of the moments, theorists, and beings that have brought these works into fruition find themselves here in the space of this paper: a reflection, an experimentation, a hand reaching out to the audience; this paper cannot quite go it alone, enmeshed and yet different from the work in the gallery.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41439
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectPhilosophy of science
dc.subject.keywordsPosthumanism
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous ontologies
dc.subject.keywordsGrief
dc.subject.keywordsClimate change
dc.subject.keywordsClimate crisis
dc.subject.keywordsVisual art
dc.subject.keywordsFine art
dc.subject.keywordsInterdisciplinary
dc.subject.keywordsResearch-creation
dc.subject.keywordsAgency
dc.subject.keywordsGarbage
dc.subject.keywordsPhotography
dc.subject.keywordsDarkroom
dc.subject.keywordsSculpture
dc.subject.keywordsEcology
dc.subject.keywordsWaste
dc.subject.keywordsMaterial
dc.subject.keywordsMatter
dc.titleDon't Let’s Go: Preemptive Grief, a World, and Others
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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