Tuesday, August 4, 2015 2:00 pm
-
2:00 pm
EDT (GMT -04:00)
Of the thesis entitled: Vibratory Lines: Experiments in Expressivity
Abstract:
All matter
is expressive.
All
matter, animate
or
inanimate,
sentient
or
made,
is
filled
with
the
infinite
potential for
difference
and
articulation.
All
things,
all
bodies,
are
equal.
In this context of absolute horizontality, expression is the innate desire for difference and qualitative distinction between things. It is the desire to shape matter and expresses the identity of a body: what it can do, how it can affect and how it is affected.
An Expressionist, as defined by the research of the thesis, is one that extends expressive desire by intentionally shaping their surroundings. As architects, this intentional propagation of difference is second nature. We draw lines in space and create expressive territories. A bird might draw this immaterial line through song, but architecture draws these fine lines through space and condenses them into matter. Into brick-lines, or border-lines or atmospheric-lines. These lines are tools that sever and re-construct space, they oscillate between self-definition and the definition of their surroundings. They are vibratory in the nature.
In this thesis, the Vibratory line and how it engages in expressive territorialisation, becomes the basis for a set of experiments in writing, painting, modelling, curation and full-scale Installation. All works comprised in the thesis engage in an extended territorial refrain of this line.
In this context of absolute horizontality, expression is the innate desire for difference and qualitative distinction between things. It is the desire to shape matter and expresses the identity of a body: what it can do, how it can affect and how it is affected.
An Expressionist, as defined by the research of the thesis, is one that extends expressive desire by intentionally shaping their surroundings. As architects, this intentional propagation of difference is second nature. We draw lines in space and create expressive territories. A bird might draw this immaterial line through song, but architecture draws these fine lines through space and condenses them into matter. Into brick-lines, or border-lines or atmospheric-lines. These lines are tools that sever and re-construct space, they oscillate between self-definition and the definition of their surroundings. They are vibratory in the nature.
In this thesis, the Vibratory line and how it engages in expressive territorialisation, becomes the basis for a set of experiments in writing, painting, modelling, curation and full-scale Installation. All works comprised in the thesis engage in an extended territorial refrain of this line.
The examining committee is as follows:
Supervisor:
Committee Members:
Adrian Blackwell, University of Waterloo
Dereck Revington,University
of
Waterloo
Andrew
Levitt,
University
of Waterloo
External Reader:
Karen Houle, University of Guelph
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Tuesday
August
4,
2015
2:00PM
ARC
Loft
Gallery
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.