The Handbook Project

de Roos, Lindsey

The Handbook Project

aut.embargo	No	en_NZ
aut.thirdpc.contains	No	en_NZ
dc.contributor.advisor	Redmond, Monique
dc.contributor.advisor	Amundsen, Fiona
dc.contributor.author	de Roos, Lindsey
dc.date.accessioned	2021-09-27T03:47:57Z
dc.date.available	2021-09-27T03:47:57Z
dc.date.copyright	2021
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.date.updated	2021-09-23T07:35:53Z
dc.description.abstract	The Handbook Project is an exploration of an “unhelpful guide” for navigating arts academia and art spaces as a person of colour through a tactile and social “art practice”. This project is an intuitive and reflective journey of deinstitutionalising my mind and my making (even though I still operate within the institution), through the lens of race. My research explores how retrospective (which developed into reparative) forms of making can work towards a decolonised sense of imagination. To aid this exploration, I utilise materials that I am very familiar with when it comes to academia, such as annotations, workshops, essay writing, paper and photographs. These sit alongside conventional methods of artmaking such as photography, sculpture, and print. I introduce notions of slowness and repetition to these materials in order to disrupt my habitual behaviours with them (in the context of academia). The project is situated in the following three main concepts of freedom: the freedom-of-knowledge, the freedom-of-space, and the freedom-of-language. These “freedoms” simultaneously function as pathways and pillars to navigating the concepts of race, and the potential explorations of racial equity in context to this project. To understand how these freedoms might manifest, I move between my experiences as a student, as a mentor, and as staff (of the University) to observe and critically engage with how my BIpeersOC and I can exist here safely.	en_NZ
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10292/14535
dc.language.iso	en	en_NZ
dc.publisher	Auckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrights	OpenAccess
dc.subject	Racial equity	en_NZ
dc.subject	Deinstitutionalisation	en_NZ
dc.subject	Reconciliation	en_NZ
dc.subject	Arts academia	en_NZ
dc.title	The Handbook Project	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