The unsettled object

Date
2007
Authors
Sharek, Elizabeth
Supervisor
de Freitas, Nancy
Braddock, Christopher
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Master of Arts in Art and Design
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Auckland University of Technology
Abstract

The Unsettled Object is an installational art project that considers the instability of objects in regards to their assembly, classification, and presentation, underpinned by the context of the museum and supported by Michel Foucault’s notion of the classificatory grids he discusses in The Order of Things: an archaeology of the Human Sciences. (Foucault,1970) The artefacts are being fabricated as a response to the corporeal body-on-display; its surfaces, spaces and volumes. An underlying notion of temporality and mutability is indicated in the processes of making, the objects, material responsiveness and the devices employed in the presentation of the work.

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Installation , Plaster , Foam , Practice based research
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