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Everything Moves So Swiftly: Sculptural Moments in the Life of Objects

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Date

2012

Authors

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Jervis, Ian
Cullen, Paul
Redmond, Monique

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Thesis

Degree name

Master of Art and Design

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Auckland University of Technology

Abstract

My practice-based art project explores a variety of constructional approaches specifically directed toward sculptural outcomes; the repurposing of commonplace objects to produce sculptural composites. This project speculates on the role of asignification in a sculptural object as both a deferral of representation and an enabler of human potential. Asignification, as an elision of the standardising and constraining space of representation, provides a key to rethinking the conditions of potentiality immanent to the spectator/sculpture encounter. The spectator’s encounter with an asignifying sculpture exists on the cusp between a leap into the virtual and more familiar spatiotemporal vectors. And if taken, this leap allows the spectator – as in a dream – to move freely within a boundless experience of time and memory.

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Sculptural composites, Commonplace objects, Asignification, Representation, Potential

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https://hdl.handle.net/10292/4756

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