Off-campus UMass Amherst users: To download campus access dissertations, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your UMass Amherst user name and password.
Non-UMass Amherst users: Please talk to your librarian about requesting this dissertation through interlibrary loan.
Dissertations that have an embargo placed on them will not be available to anyone until the embargo expires.
ORCID
N/A
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2016
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
Seven series of artworks; painted, drawn and performed. These works are presented as affective incorporation exercises, that test modes of aesthetic communication in response to varying political contingencies. The constitutive processes used to develop the work also function as a methodology for my own political radicalization. As an artist I am wagering how to talk, as an activist I am preparing to act. The artworks discussed occur at the crossroads of these desires as enactions of futurity within the subjunctive mood.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/8497030
First Advisor
Shona Macdonald
Second Advisor
Alexis Kuhr
Third Advisor
Kimberlee Perez
Recommended Citation
McCauley, Brendan M., "Summoning The Body That Acts" (2016). Masters Theses. 402.
https://doi.org/10.7275/8497030
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/402
Included in
Art Practice Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Painting Commons, Photography Commons