Tracing the Absurd: Queer Bodies of a Painted Allegory
| aut.embargo | No | en_NZ |
| aut.subject.rainbow | art and culture | |
| aut.thirdpc.contains | Yes | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.permission | No | en_NZ |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Amundsen, Fiona | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shin, Jeena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guo, Tony | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-07T01:28:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-12-07T01:28:38Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2022 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-12-06T23:50:35Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This practice-led research employs representational painting to narrate a series of paradoxical allegories that reflect my lived queer experiences through an Asian body. I am interested in the philosophical notion of Absurdism—a condition that possesses qualities of being exiled from a sense of rationality. Struggling with the Westernised concept of coming-out-of-the-closet, my project positions my queerness as something that is inherently permeated by absurd qualities. Through this conceptual framing, I aim to construct a queer Absurdist language, via representational painting, that imagines narratives which juxtapose humour with discomfort, beauty with grotesqueness, and lyricism with insanity; these narratives are situated within a spectrum. I question how absurdity informs a deconstructive methodology against the binary ways of thinking that fundamentally reject queerness. Centring self-referential naked male bodies who take on different characters via my painted narratives, I explore ways to reclaim an underrepresented subjectivity of queer bodies that has been historically ostracised by a Western heteronormative masculine gaze. As my project progresses, the affective physicality of oil paint is felt in my experience of the world. Through expanded painting methods, I examine how the emotional gesture of painted marks and distorted forms on the canvas’s textural surface may accommodate a queer methodology. | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/15716 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
| dc.publisher | Auckland University of Technology | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.title | Tracing the Absurd: Queer Bodies of a Painted Allegory | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_NZ |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Auckland University of Technology | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters Theses | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Visual Arts | en_NZ |