Title
Disorientations
Date of Award
Spring 5-19-2022
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Degree Type
Thesis
Abstract
The materials that make up the ordinary and mundane in the United States also reinforce and normalize a white spatial imaginary. Conventions of mapping, imaging of land and landscape, and elements of the built environment continue to orient us in a logic of space as property. In my sculptural work, I employ strategies of disorientation and creative repair, or reconstruction, to unsettle the spatial practices of whiteness and structures of power embedded in the mundane, the familiar, and the domestic. I consider the planned cohousing community where I grew up as an influence on my work, and my whiteness. By contrast, my sculptures reference three sites where unplanned but established communities of color were displaced by travel infrastructures, which in some cases were never built. Ultimately, I look to material processes of reconstruction to map and respond to these erasures and the spatial imaginaries that led to them.
Language
English
Program Chair
Lisa Bulawsky
Thesis Text Advisor
Lisa Bulawsky
Thesis Text Advisor
Monika Weiss
Faculty Mentor
Lisa Bulawsky
Committee Member
Amy Hauft
Committee Member
Michael Byron
Recommended Citation
Greene-Lowe, Noah, "Disorientations" (2022). MFA in Visual Art. 1.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mfa_visual_art/1
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