Date of Award
Summer 8-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Program
Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts
Major Professor
Rule, Dan
Second Advisor
Stillman, Nicholas
Third Advisor
Hayes, Cheryl
Abstract
My interests lie in the intersection of the public and private, the corporate and personal, especially with regard to self-representation within cultural power structures. Utilizing video and web technologies, performance, and painting, I create imagined realms of fantasy, desire, obsession, and anxiety. Operating within, but not bound by, feminist discourse, my work explores the vehicles and effects by which both analog and digital technologies influence the relationship between the self and the object of desire (whether physical or virtual, interior or exterior to the body) and have produced both progressive and regressive offspring. By performing the role of both producer of cultural archetypes and the compulsive consumer of signs, my characters embody the representation(s) of their source but, through action and voice, invent a mutant surrogate who dictates its own agency.
Recommended Citation
Schwanse, Nina E., "Trouble Every Day" (2012). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1535.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1535
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