Abstract
My artistic practice utilizes a hybrid of media such as serigraphs, lithographs, hand-made publications, installations, archival documents and video-based works to address master narratives and to challenge historical records. I closely examine the relationship between archived information and redacted histories and their effects on the collective and historical consciousness. I am interested in creating counter-archives to challenge the authority behind archival systems and interrogate their mutability. I also borrow from the same visual language of traditional archival systems to reveal institutional and historical skeletons. Due to my personal research, I have morphed into an archivist myself collecting bodies of hidden and unfamiliar knowledge. In this text, I am using research to amplify willfully omitted histories or alternative knowledge in order to tell a distinctive story.
Committee Chair
Margaret Sherer
Committee Members
Margaret Sherer
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Art
Author's Department
Graduate School of Art
Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
Spring 5-16-2019
Language
English (en)
Recommended Citation
McCoy, Kevin, "Clash of the Titans" (2019). Graduate School of Art Theses. ETD 127.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/knrz-jf58
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