Barbed Utopia
Mahmoud, Randa Reda (2020) Barbed Utopia. Masters thesis, OCAD University.
Item Type: | Thesis |
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Creators: | Mahmoud, Randa Reda |
Abstract: | I create performative spaces with narratives implicitly inspired by my experiences in a repressive cultural context, and visually influenced by concepts of performance aesthetics, affect, emotions, expressiveness, rhythm and movement. My thesis research has been an amalgam of autoethnography, abstract installation and a critical, self-reflexive performance art practice. I use my expertise in architecture to create unconventional body-centric environments that explore the relationship of body, space and place to contemporary site-related art, scenography, performance and personal history. I use and investigate innovative methodologies of gesture, interiority and live art with a focus on my body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. My thesis artwork aims to critically scrutinize and challenge patriarchal and colonial systems. I incorporate feminist concepts through narratives that have connection to cultural identity, the gendered social gaze, cultural prejudices, home, nostalgia and diaspora. |
Date: | 6 April 2020 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Installation Art, Performance Art, Diaspora, Patriarchal systems, Hybrid cultural identity, Social injustice |
Divisions: | Graduate Studies > Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design |
Date Deposited: | 12 May 2020 19:30 |
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2021 21:15 |
URI: | https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3035 |
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