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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2563-2958
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2022
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
The Name is a Guest of the Substance brings together works of video, installation, live performance, sculpture, and print to investigate the constructions of kinship that organize us into the world as historical, ecological, and political subjects. Herter Gallery’s 1600 sq. ft space is utilized in full for this project. The work in both galleries evaluates systems of categorization in light of their power to foster or discourage kinship within overlapping local, global and ecological communities. While the West Gallery uses my own multi-racial American genealogy to challenge the authority of historical and autobiographical origins, the East gallery uses manipulations of scale to emphasize the overlooked and ungovernable ways non-human forms of life frustrate our constant attempts at establishing a stable hierarchy of biological relations.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/28981432
First Advisor
Susan Jahoda
Second Advisor
Jeff Kasper
Third Advisor
Jenny Vogel
Fourth Advisor
Cameron Awkward Rich
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Scott, Jessica, "The Name is a Guest of the Substance" (2022). Masters Theses. 1218.
https://doi.org/10.7275/28981432
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1218