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House and Contents Insurance: An Exploration of Tactility and Narrative

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Date

2007

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Engels-Schwarzpaul, Tina
Jansen, Dieneke

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Thesis

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Master of Arts in Art and Design

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Auckland University of Technology

Abstract

This thesis examines the relationships between fictional narratives and material objects through writing and sculptural practice. Its purpose is to explore how fiction assists in an understanding of the world we inhabit and, conversely, how our experiences of the world and its real and physically accessible contents (or objects) prevent fiction from transgressing into nonsense. It is anticipated that the combination of material practice and textual fiction will not be an easy marriage: it may be the objects which ultimately give presence to our voices, voices which historically have often attempted to claim and own of things through utterance. The sculptural component of the project addresses the tactility of objects and examines the space where so many tales are told – the home. In so doing, the project explores issues of isolation and connection through objects and materials which harbour a narrative of ostensible comfort. Objects may simultaneously project conflicting accounts of comfort and unease, connection and isolation, contributing to an articulated consciousness of the home.

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Home, Mimesis, Melancholia, Narrative, Fiction, Freedom

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https://hdl.handle.net/10292/373

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