Lau, Yam K.2015-08-282015-08-282015-04-162015-08-28http://hdl.handle.net/10315/30064I explore painting and drawing through a binding of its performative activity with the practice of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. Constraints are put in place to impose constant and abrupt switching between mark-making and grappling activity. The repetition involved in this structure fuses these two distinct activities into one. The experience of mushin (no-mind), a state one enters when deeply immersed in martial art activity, overlaps into the process of mark-making. This experience of mark-making subsequently influences the activity on the mat. Affect, as a pre-cognitive entity, participates alongside conscious activity in this feedback loop of influences. From this view, I revisit the idea of constraint and mushin. The resulting works depict fragmented bodies-in-process, produced under a state of mushin that involves the constrained combination of unconscious and conscious, mental and bodily influences.enAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Fine artsPhilosophyElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2015-08-28ArtVisual artsDrawingPaintingMark-makingMartial artsBrazilian jiu-jitsuBJJJudoYves kleinConstraintsMushinZenAffectMassumiPerformanceBodyMat