Essays about: "Visuality"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 31 essays containing the word Visuality.

  1. 11. Performing Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Racism in Ballet

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Maria Angelica Rodriguez D.; [2021]
    Keywords : Ballet; Race; Whiteness; Racism; Ideology; Aesthetics.;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of race and ethnicity in culture and the arts. It discusses whiteness and racism in ballet and addresses a gap in the literature for both disciplines Ballet and Race and Ethnic Studies. READ MORE

  3. 12. Blood, Sperm, and Tears in Extreme Cinema : A phenomenological study in hegemonic masculinity through Gaspar Noé's Love from a psychoanalytical perspective

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2020]
    Keywords : Love; Gaspar Noé; psychoanalysis; Brecht; homunculus; film analysis; gender; hegemonic masculinity; sexuality; body horror;

    Abstract : This thesis will analyze how masculinity is depicted in the French-Argentinean director Gaspar Noé’s movie Love (2015), and how it is orientating and disorientating through an intersectional lens. In his films, the filmmaker often uses haptic images and sound traversing to interrogate the existence and to express a clear and abject visuality to expose the flesh. READ MORE

  4. 13. Art as resistance : artists' reflections on environmentally engaged art and their roles as civil actors in society

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Linnéa Lindgren Havsfjord; [2020]
    Keywords : art; environmentally engaged art; political ecology; enterprise culture; visuality; discourse analysis; political art; art worlds; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As climate change intensifies, more voices are being raised in favor of re-conceptualization and transformative systems change, where actions are taken on a social, political and economic level. Environmentally engaged art and its artists are brought forward as potential instigators of change, as both researchers and as civil actors in society. READ MORE

  5. 14. Visualisations of Sound Waves. The Visual Phenomenon of the Invisible.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Laine Medniece; [2020]
    Keywords : Sonic materiality; sound waves; sound sculptures; semiotics; inscriptions; gestures; visual culture.; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates diverse visualisations of sound waves and searches for visual evidence of the aural in the images. The invisible often has its own visual culture even though it has never been seen with a human eye. Due to science and its validations, these visuals are perceived as 'true' images. READ MORE

  6. 15. Contaminated and Scarred: An Exploration in the Landscapes and Narratives of the Anthropocene

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Laura Pietilä; [2020]
    Keywords : Landscape; Contamination; Toxicity; Narrative; Environmental Justice; Ecology; Visuality; Bikini Atoll; Teckomatorp;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I explore and analyse narratives around toxic and scarred landscapes. The aim of the thesis is to understand human views and experiences of anthropogenic environments through narratives of contamination and toxicity. Some concepts used throughout the thesis are landscape, heritage, ghost, and trauma. READ MORE