Resonant Frequencies Beyond the Visible, Between the Lines: Re-visioning Photographic Subjects in the Encyclopaedia Britannica

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dc.contributor.advisorLevitt, Nina
dc.contributor.authorOghobase, Onoriode Abraham
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-08T15:52:10Z
dc.date.available2022-08-08T15:52:10Z
dc.date.copyright2022-04-07
dc.date.issued2022-08-08
dc.date.updated2022-08-08T15:52:10Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThis masters thesis gives an insight into my artistic practice – that explores colonial history, the otherness of colonized subjects, environmental exploitation, and personal encounters with place – leading up to and informing my MFA final exhibition. My thesis project attempts to interrogate meanings inherent in colonial representations through an engagement with the materiality of photography, with a focus on the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1968). By photocopying, juxtaposition and layering images contained within its pages, I aim to open up possibilities for the re-conceptualization and re-visioning of African subjects of this compendium of knowledge who would otherwise remain voiceless and perceived from a limited, colonial gaze. The resulting images complicate and stretch the boundaries between art and history and raise important questions, including about the signifiers of feeling and vibration that invest certain images with mystery and power, leading to a dimension outside of sight and touch.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39625
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subject.keywordsFine arts
dc.subject.keywordsVisual arts
dc.subject.keywordsPhotography
dc.subject.keywordsArchive
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonization
dc.subject.keywordsKnowledge production
dc.subject.keywordsRepresentation
dc.subject.keywordsColonial history
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsXerox art
dc.titleResonant Frequencies Beyond the Visible, Between the Lines: Re-visioning Photographic Subjects in the Encyclopaedia Britannica
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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