Performative encounters : making conversations with local worlds
Considers the operation of art practices where art works are made socially. This sociality extends beyond the inter-human sphere, akin to Bruno Latour's conception of the term, whereby "knot" of agency function through actors that are both human and non-human. This social practice is posited as conversation with local worlds, where recoprocal relations and the powers of other actuants are closely considered. The research employs performative methodologies to explore ways in which artworks develop and operate in relation to multiple actants and within networks of relation. the agency of artists and the fixity of objects are challenged by attending to intricate local connections and the working with that which is immanent to situations. Here the artwork event is built through repearted and altering performances in which artist, matter and participants are variously approached as co-existive agents and interdependent relations between matter and life thereby intervolve into virtual becomings
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2015