Pulse, pulse, somersault

Date
2009
Authors
Gorodi, Suzie Mei
Supervisor
Braddock, Chris
Amundsen, Fiona
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Thesis
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Master of Art and Design
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Auckland University of Technology
Abstract

This project explores notions of seeing and knowing, underpinned by performative and phenomenological fields of enquiry that relate this exploration to the sensate experience of the viewer. A specific interest considers ideas of embodied vision with an aim at generating events that vacillate in the bodies of the audience. A primary focus is on the arena of encounter as a multi-sensory experiential event, and within this context this project proposes a temporal and spatial framework for exploration. Studio methods develop a cinematic-body of video work negotiating performative practice involving video projection and temporality. Pivotal goals are to explore the significance of the ‘chiasm’ between seeing and knowing, raising questions about how humans see, and how humans make how they see matter. Therefore, this thesis project progresses along experimental approaches to video installation, particularly in relation to the phenomena of encounter, the viewer, and film experience. The central motivation of this video practice is aimed at corporeal affect in the body/s of the audience. This thesis project is constituted as 80% practice-based work accompanied by a 20% exegesis.

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Embodiment , Haptic cinema , Sensory experience , Encounter , Event , Bodies of the audience , Experimental video , Sensate experience of the viewer
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