Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree
Spring 2015
Degree Name
MFA (Master of Fine Arts)
Degree In
Art
First Advisor
Anita Jung
First Committee Member
Sarah Kanouse
Second Committee Member
James Snitzer
Third Committee Member
Mary Trachsel
Fourth Committee Member
Michael Gibisser
Abstract
Potential alliances between queers and animals populate queer scholarship, while dominant culture has relegated both groups to similar sites of subjugation and abjection. My work presents utopic visions crafted from these shared sites of marginalization and asks how they can enable new biopolitical communities. I ask: can we co-habitate, with non-human animals, these particular sites of marginalization in a manner that enables cross-species, affective solidarity? And can this co-habitation also encourage ruptures within heteronormative and human-centric paradigms? Rescuing the subjectivity and cultures of animals from extent subjugations can build new multispecies communities that are essential in an era of environmental devastation and climate change. Through printmaking, installation and time-based media, I explore real, psychological and metaphorical environments of cross-species encounters.
Public Abstract
Potential alliances between queers and animals populate queer scholarship, while dominant culture has relegated both groups to similar sites of subjugation and abjection. My work presents utopic visions crafted from these shared sites of marginalization and asks how they can enable new biopolitical communities. I ask: can we co-habitate, with non-human animals, these particular sites of marginalization in a manner that enables cross-species, affective solidarity? And can this co-habitation also encourage ruptures within heteronormative and human-centric paradigms? Rescuing the subjectivity and cultures of animals from extent subjugations can build new multispecies communities that are essential in an era of environmental devastation and climate change. Through printmaking, installation and time-based media, I explore real, psychological and metaphorical environments of cross-species encounters.
Keywords
publicabstract, Critical Animal Studies, Ecology, Intermedia, Printmaking, Queer, Queer Ecology
Pages
viii, 47 pages
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-47).
Copyright
Copyright 2015 Corinne Ryan Teed
Comments
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