The body: Kaleidoscopics of aging
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2014-07-30
Authors
Bekoe, Gabriel
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Abstract
This thesis is an exploration of the pertinent issues regarding the human
body, self and cognition. Through studio work, installation and
experiment, I investigate questions of process, materialit y and specifically
in terms of their relationship to the exploration and exploitation of the self.
However, it discusses and investigates the invincible extension of the mind
within cultural context, history and now, as a matrix of different things
coming together in one piece. Moreover, how is space conceived of?
Where does spatiality reside? While some think space as a void, others
think it as a product, still, others think it as a process of inhabiting
location. The Body: Kaleidoscopics of Aging is a studio -based research
which investigates spatiality of the body. It explored process and entity
involving subjective spatiality . The enquiry is made with the assumption
that spatiality is embedded in the social construct of the mind. With
reference to thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Kant, Lefebvre, spatiality is
understood here neither as static nor passive but as active where the human
subject is interfaced with, penetrates or radicalizes an already named or
emplaced location. In this research, the consciousness of the mind and
cognition were subjectively discussed. Works of Chintan Upadhyay, David
Černý, Marc Quinn, Ron Mueck, among others are examined and
discussed in the context of the human body with regards to aging, spatial
subjectivity, and how it has been investigated artistically. A look is re-taken at everyday occurrences and situations ; a body of works is raised to
articulate this concept of spatial subjectivity. Fibreglass, resins, pigments
etc form the materiality base for the studio analysis to the respondent
issues at stake
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Painting and Sculpture,
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of
Master of fine art,