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The Object/The Body/The Ritual: An Affectual Dissection of Plastic Bags Through Performance Design

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dc.contributor.advisorPrzybylski, Teresa
dc.creatorOlscamp, Alan John Lucas
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T16:30:53Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T16:30:53Z
dc.date.copyright2019-04-22
dc.date.issued2019-07-02
dc.date.updated2019-07-02T16:30:53Z
dc.degree.disciplineTheatre
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractRoland Barthes has famously noted plastics as miraculous substances of infinite transformations and transmutations, yet we are in the midst of a paradigm shift in which the material plays an increasingly destructive role in our society and environment. The thesis addresses the question of how meaning is made and transformed by theoretically and practically dissecting plastic through three distinct research areas: object, body, and ritual. Most prominently, my thesis demonstrates how situating the plastic bag in a funeral can forge human to non-human reverence and reformulate affectual associations. Through creative investigation and extensive multidisciplinary research in visual arts, film, and queer theory, I aim to provide a deeper understanding of how plastics can obscure and entangle the boundaries between theatre and performance art.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/36352
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPerforming Arts
dc.subject.keywordsPlastic
dc.subject.keywordsecology
dc.subject.keywordsritual
dc.subject.keywordseco-design
dc.subject.keywordsfuneral
dc.subject.keywordsdeath studies
dc.subject.keywordsperformance studies
dc.subject.keywordsperfomance design
dc.subject.keywordstheatre design
dc.subject.keywordscostume design
dc.subject.keywordsobject design
dc.subject.keywordsron athey
dc.subject.keywordskembra pfahler
dc.subject.keywordsfranko b
dc.subject.keywordsdavid lynch
dc.subject.keywordslars von trier
dc.subject.keywordstwin peaks
dc.subject.keywordscorpse
dc.subject.keywordspuppet
dc.subject.keywordsdeath
dc.subject.keywordseco-theatre
dc.subject.keywordslucas olscamp
dc.subject.keywordsmfa design
dc.subject.keywordssustainability
dc.subject.keywordsuncanny valley
dc.subject.keywordscindy sherman
dc.subject.keywordscarolee schneemann
dc.subject.keywordsolivier de sagazan
dc.subject.keywordsperformance
dc.subject.keywordsperform
dc.subject.keywordsdrag
dc.subject.keywordsqueer
dc.subject.keywordsqueer art
dc.subject.keywordsqueer theory
dc.subject.keywordsqueer studies
dc.subject.keywordsheather davis
dc.subject.keywordstoxic progeny
dc.subject.keywordsroland barthes
dc.subject.keywordshistory of plastic
dc.subject.keywordsperformance art
dc.titleThe Object/The Body/The Ritual: An Affectual Dissection of Plastic Bags Through Performance Design
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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