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      Forage

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      Date
      2021-09-23
      Author
      Fookes, Jasmin Kim
      ORCID
      0000-0001-7193-3762
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      What is worth collecting? How do we honour perceived value? Who decides how we classify and display artifacts? What sort of stories do specific collections tell? In this paper, I explore some of the social determinants of my artistic practice, track the things that matter to me, and account for the ways my everyday lived experience seeps into and informs my work. I situate the transdisciplinary terrain of my history alongside an engagement with contemporary artists who collect a diverse assortment of materials such as Mark Dion, Barry McGee, and Lyndal Osborne. Forage seeks to inspire a reflective response from viewers, possibly eliciting memories of their own collecting endeavours, the thrill of the find, and how these selected materials embody the energy of their existence. By intervening in art-historical and museum-based systems of knowledge-making and keeping, I wish to attract viewers by intentionally leveraging an elegant aesthetic and merging natural history with its intrinsic ecological wisdom alongside repurposed mass-produced objects. The content and layout of this installation are driven by an evocative impulse to arrange by size, shape, colour, and utility through a deep-seated trust in my intuition and skill set. This work and approach revitalize in me a sense of wonder for the world we live in, its beauty, fragility, and complexity and the urgency of caring for it.
      Degree
      Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
      Department
      Art and Art History
      Program
      Studio Art
      Supervisor
      Birke, Lisa
      Committee
      Borsa, Joan; Tim, Nowlin; James-Cavan, Kathleen
      Copyright Date
      August 2021
      URI
      https://hdl.handle.net/10388/13605
      Subject
      Installation Art
      Conceptual Art
      Assemblage
      Interdisciplinary
      Collecting
      Collections
      Archives
      Artifacts
      Display
      Ecology
      Found Objects
      Collections
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