between / no longer / and / not yet

Abstract

For this thesis purposes I use an embodied, circular methodology for the research, theory, and art-making to ensure that the project's outcome culminates as a living document. Connections between the various research modes of, for example, reading, writing, imagining, walking, collection, examination, experimentation, and discussion are intrinsic to the project's outcome. This outcome informs the theory, which ultimately re-informs the research and art-making. The theoretical work allows for expansive citation practices and aesthetic registers that emphasize critically informed and conceptually inventive methods. Within the creative work, both idea and material consider and often reject hierarchies of conceptual and formalist concerns, which I will address throughout this thesis. Shifting between different approaches to creation ensures a continuous fluctuation between exploration and speculation. The work intuits facets of intimacy, control, and the balance between freedom and relinquishing total control.