Abstract

Rupture repeats without regard. Occurring on macro and micro scales, these historical, financial, and social upheavals continue throughout our lives, remaking our worlds and leaving us to respond as best we can. Rupture is a condition of human existence. For marginalized communities and Black Americans specifically, rupture is familiar and precarious. Historically, Black people respond to the space that rupture makes through a rigorous, interdisciplinary, creative tradition which serves as a strategy for survival and a way to produce and transmit knowledge. These methods of knowledge production exist in excess of formal training and are evident of quiet and expansive interior lives that defy reductive tropes of representation.

As an artist, who is also a woman, Black, and Queer, my own ruptures repeat. I use rupture as a conceptual framework for my practice, letting it guide my thinking and treatment of material. The official record, our institutions and disciplines will always fail us in the redress of rupture. I look to quiet and interior ways that everyday Black folks have worked and lived in the face of rupture. In this thesis, I examine my creative work through the lens of rupture and unpack ideas of knowledge production, interiority, quiet, and care.

Committee Chair

Rhaisa Williams

Committee Members

Rhaisa Williams

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Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/qwf8-sg96

Degree

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art

Author's Department

Graduate School of Art

Author's School

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

Spring 5-2019

Language

English (en)

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