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Freedom and Association
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posted on 2017-09-18, 01:48 authored by Christopher Leslie Gowens HillThe project Freedom
and Association is a flexible, fluid, and personal investment in practice that
loosens forms of language and opens up structures of value that cohere onto
words and objects.
The non-fixed, process-based nature of the practical component of the research is extended in an understanding of post anarchism - as an ongoing, lived experience of the everyday and of friendship. I define anarchism as the rejection of dominant power structures and as pertaining to shifts in the formal and cultural values in creative writing and art. Post anarchism extends on this as an anarchism practiced in everyday interactions.
Social values signified in the ‘made’ and ‘bought’ are challenged through the practical component of the research, utilising scatter installations to question how an object’s financial value can subjectively shift. Formal and emotional relationships with materials are challenged through the use of discarded commercial goods and tools acquired from multiple sources, as well as the giving away, rather than selling, of artworks. In poetry the practical research also aims to loosen the values of words, liberating them from formal sentence structures in free associative messes, or extended graffiti. Does poetry in the context of my practice operate as art? Is graffiti poetry? Are scatter installations a poetry of objects?
The research engages post anarchism as a flexible way for living, rather than anarchy as a utopian political ideal. I explore post anarchism as a tactic for resistance, but also a tactic for creative freedom within art practice. Within contemporary art practice it is near impossible not to participate in neoliberalism, but harnessing various tactics to cope with or challenge structures of power can create at least some sense of freedom, as fleeting or momentary as it may be.
The non-fixed, process-based nature of the practical component of the research is extended in an understanding of post anarchism - as an ongoing, lived experience of the everyday and of friendship. I define anarchism as the rejection of dominant power structures and as pertaining to shifts in the formal and cultural values in creative writing and art. Post anarchism extends on this as an anarchism practiced in everyday interactions.
Social values signified in the ‘made’ and ‘bought’ are challenged through the practical component of the research, utilising scatter installations to question how an object’s financial value can subjectively shift. Formal and emotional relationships with materials are challenged through the use of discarded commercial goods and tools acquired from multiple sources, as well as the giving away, rather than selling, of artworks. In poetry the practical research also aims to loosen the values of words, liberating them from formal sentence structures in free associative messes, or extended graffiti. Does poetry in the context of my practice operate as art? Is graffiti poetry? Are scatter installations a poetry of objects?
The research engages post anarchism as a flexible way for living, rather than anarchy as a utopian political ideal. I explore post anarchism as a tactic for resistance, but also a tactic for creative freedom within art practice. Within contemporary art practice it is near impossible not to participate in neoliberalism, but harnessing various tactics to cope with or challenge structures of power can create at least some sense of freedom, as fleeting or momentary as it may be.
History
Campus location
AustraliaPrincipal supervisor
Spiros PanigirakisAdditional supervisor 1
Daniel von SturmerYear of Award
2017Department, School or Centre
Fine ArtCourse
Masters of Fine ArtsDegree Type
RESEARCH_MASTERSFaculty
Faculty of Art, Design and ArchitectureUsage metrics
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