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| Mutant Manifesto: A Response To The Symbolic Positions Of Evolution And Genetic Engineering Within Self Perception | ||
| 作者 | Cooper, Simon George (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2007.01 |
| 頁次 | 50 |
| 出版者 | University of New South Wales |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.unsw.edu.au/ |
| 出版地 | Kensington, NSW, Australia |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | M.F.A. |
| 校院名稱 | University of New South Wales |
| 系所名稱 | Arts Design & Architecture |
| 畢業年度 | 2007 |
| 摘要 | Believing that ideas about evolution and genetics are playing an increasing role in popular conceptions of who we are and what it means to be human, I sought ways to express this through my art. In particular I tried to articulate these notions through figurative sculpture. As the role of figurative sculpture in expressing current ideas about being human has declined in the West, I saw this as a challenge. It was the intent of my Masters program to reposition the sculpted body back within contemporary western cultural contexts. For an understanding of those contexts I relied heavily on my own culturally embedded experience and observations. I took as background my readings of evolutionary inspired literature and linked it with my interpretations of the genetic mythologies so prevalent in recent movies. The result was an image of contemporary humans as multifaceted, yet subservient to their genes. These genes appear to be easily manipulated and the product of technological intervention as much as, if not more than, inherited characteristics. As part of developing a sculptural form able to manifest this, I investigated some non-western traditions. I used field trips and residencies to research Buddhist and Hindu sculptures of the body and developed an interest in the spatial and conceptual relationships between those bodies. Through making figurative work in the studio, I came to realise the figures' inadequacy in expressing temporal relationships. As temporal change is a fundamental element of evolution and genetics, I needed to explore this element. The result was a number of series; groups of works that create their own context of relationships. Not all these groups use sculptures of the body but they evoke the notion of bodies, naturally or technologically hybridised, mutating, transforming, evolving and related to each other generationaly through time. |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/17368 |
| 點閱次數 | 464 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.05.05 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.05.05 |
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