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With Every Fiber, Catherine Megan Calloway

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Displaying and covering the human form, fiber inherently refers to the body. It wraps, protects, and conveys stories about us. This accumulation of work uses strands of fiber to define space, create structures, and manipulate the human form. Considering the process of craft in which bodies manipulate fiber, this work explores the way in which fiber manipulates bodies. As sculptures that envelope a human form, each garment mandates how a body may move both within and outside of it, engendering a performance in which both entities assert limits and capabilities. Each knot, stitch, and weave, is an expression of time, …

Lust Gluttony Greed, Abigail Adele Matthews Adler

Senior Projects Spring 2016

I make theater because it is social; a dialogical tool rooted in the interface between performer and audience. As an artist I seek community, a remedy for passivity, and movement between destruction and reification. I incorporate voice, text, sound, video, movement, politics, gender, spectacle, and tomfoolery. I believe in the necessity of others in process, practice, and performance, and I pursue joy in all I do.

This project is the product of surprise. In February 2015, the Theater Department announced that Senior Projects would need to be collaborative. In response to this challenge, the 2016 Theatre Makers met to figure …

Sonic Urbanities: Undoing The Soundscape And Aural History In Kingston, Ny, Alexander Sahasrabudhe Graf

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Ernest Hemingway And Alice Walker: Branding The Great American Writer, Shari Stiell-Quashie

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Ernest Hemingway and Alice Walker: Branding the Great American Writer discusses how Public Relations efforts have shaped the work of 20th century authors, Alice Walker and Ernest Hemingway through their respective stories The Color Purple and The Old Man and The Sea. The tactics of this field have created two of the most prominent literary figures of our time, writers who have both produced timeless works and summoned a global audience to pay close attention to their work. Understanding how this attention is garnered is vital to recognizing the way authorship is created, shaped, and consumed by the reading …

Female Visions Of The City: An Exploration Of Urban Literature Written By Women, Leah Katherine Rabinowitz

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Dostoevsky's "Bobok": A Translation To The Language Of The Stage, Daniel Julian Krakovski

Senior Projects Spring 2016

As a joint major in Russian & Eurasian Studies and Theater & Performance, my senior project is a translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story entitled “Бобок: записки одного человека” [Bobok: Notes of a Certain Individual] (1873) from Russian into English. This translation then served as the textual foundation for what eventually—after a six-month rehearsal process—became a solo performance featuring an actor named Fergus Baumann. I co-directed the performance in tandem with my collaborator Eileen Goodrich. Our production was featured in the Theater & Performance Senior Project Festival, which provided us with three performances in the Luma Theater of the Richard …

Leibniz On China And Christianity: The Reformation Of Religion And European Ethics Through Converting China To Christianity, Ela Megan Kaplan

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

The Temptation Of Sherlock Holmes: Aesthetics, Expectations, And The Gothic, Sarah M. Davin

Senior Projects Spring 2016

This thesis will be concerned with challenging the preconceptions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, and how different readings of the text are revealed when those preconceptions are challenged. While the character of Sherlock Holmes is often considered as very scientific in nature, this thesis will attempt to challenge this, suggesting alternative readings of Holmes that might situate the character within a literary tradition rather than pretending that the Holmes character can somehow be psychoanalyzed or that his work as a detective in a text somehow directly interacted with the real world. By focusing on the …

The River Of Blood: An Analysis Of The Process And Production Of Fury And The Senior Theater Festival Inferno, Aleah Willa Black

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Quant' Sei Bell': A Narrative Based On The Transatlantic Love Letters Of Gennaro Valvano And Serafina Savignano, John Francis Cherichello

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

From 1890 To Today, Nothing’S Changed: Gentrification In Harlem And The Abuse Of Eminent Domain, Bianka Alexandria Bell

Senior Projects Spring 2016

A comparative study of the Black diaspora into Harlem between 1890-1920 and its contemporary gentrification crisis; this study explains how institutions (are allowed to) infiltrate urban communities via the endurance of neoliberal urbanism, and how the enablement of such infiltration is implicitly racist.

Romantic Nationalism And The Image Of The Bird-Human In Russian Art Of The 19th And Early 20th Century, Kathleen Diane Keating

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

An Outsider's Perspective: Walter Benjamin's Vision Of Philosophy, Bethany Alden Zulick

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Along The Way, Jeremy Albet

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Curation Of Identity: Aesthetics Of National Division In German Art During The 1950s, Isabelle Woods Rust

Senior Projects Spring 2016

In the aftermath of World War II, as nations with shared pasts and polarized ideologies, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic imagined that the greatest means of recovery could be implemented through the construction of international alliances through ideology and aesthetics. This paper is an examination of the adaptation of socialist realism in the East German 1953 Third German Art Exhibition and the non-representational avant-garde in the West German 1955 Documenta, as well as within the 1957 MoMA exhibit on German Art of the Twentieth Century. As state-sanctioned exhibitions, these three collections sought to present …

Lust, Gluttony, Greed: A Collaborative Piece About Four Women In Hell, Leah Katherine Rabinowitz

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Network: Audio Sculpted Through Alliance, Damien Shane Moffitt

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Network is a compilation of my work, collected from some of my collaborations where I represent the diversity and chaos of my musical career.

In the first half of this double album I explore drumming along to a dear friend’s (Leach) music, trying to add a little bit more of a live flavor. What made this more of a challenge was that I would not be able to record with an actual drum set that semester. I had to improvise and set up an electronic drum kit inside of a friend’s house. Jack Moulton was that friend. He also acted …

Intention In The World Of The Apparatus, João Otávio Rosa

Senior Projects Spring 2016

My aim is to describe how the technical image, which is at the very core of our culture today, is in fact a technologically aided method of thinking (or imagining) which has outstripped our powers to control it and as a result come to absolutely dominate our lives. Further, through this domination, the technical image has created a type of visual culture that has ensnared us silently. Not only are we, in essence, “non-existing” if we refuse to participate in this global image network but the network and computational visual culture has evolved and become complex to the point we …

Black Diasporic Memories In The Soviet Union, Davon Michael Blanks

Senior Projects Spring 2016

This project looks into the lives of three Black Americans: W.E.B Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Robert Robinson. In the mid twentieth century, Du Bois and Robeson were Black radicals. However, their politics were incompatible with the changing Cold War political climate. Eventually, they were ostracized and their radical legacies were undermined and transmitted through a liberal framework. As for Robert Robinson, he was a Black Subaltern whose story is not well known. He has lived in the Soviet Union for over 44 years, most of which was against his will. The purpose of this project if to uncover the …

The Fallen, The Broken, And The Resilient, Ka Po Leung

Senior Projects Spring 2016

The conventional wisdom of the Great War is that it was a disaster on all fronts and that the terrors of the war overshadowed any redeeming qualities. The Great War was an epoch of mass infrastructural damage, civilian life turmoil, reckless political and economic decisions, and the horrors of modern warfare. The literature and memoirs on the Great War were dominated by the idea of “The Lost Generation”. “The Lost Generation” encompasses the broken and the fallen. The fallen soldiers were those who tragically died by the grips of the battlefield. The broken soldiers are defined as the ones who …

Bard College Bell Tower Architectural Lighting Project, David Douglas John Bull

Senior Projects Spring 2016

The Bard Bell Tower is located in front of the Fisher Studio Arts Building, between the Bertelsmann Campus Center and the Anna Jones Memorial Garden. Until recently, the tower structure, built by students in the spring and summer of 1965, existed in a slow state of decay due to natural aging and disuse. It is an important piece of Bard’s history that has been ignored in recent years, which is something I set out to change. My Senior Project in Studio Arts is focused on restoring the Bell Tower by stabilizing the structure and implementing a permanent light installation of …

The Marriage Between Fury And Fervor: An Analysis Of The Performance Fury, As Part Of The Senior Project Theater Festival, Inferno, Michael Anna Gray

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Mauricio Kagel And His Multifaceted Lieder-Oper, Aus Deutschland, Petra Elek

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Drawing Out The Intangible: A Study Of The Depiction And Reinterpretation Of Memory In Two Comics, Malkie Scarf

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

This project is concerned with how we remember, represent, and reinterpret personal history, and it addresses what happens when the intangible stuff of memory and personal experience (lacking any stable visual appearance) are materialized into a visual format – that is, into the medium of comics, comprised of both images and words. Two stand-alone comic books deeply invested in this task of reinterpreting personal memories are at the fore of this analysis: David B.'s Epileptic and David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp.

"Between Sunset And River": Nabokov's Bridge To The Otherworld, Jesse R. Weiss

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Achieving Attunement: The Evolution Of The Musical Film Toward A Total Work Of Art, Elena Catherine Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

A Blank Space Extended: On The Poetics Of Osvaldo Lamborghini, Kevin Paul Soto

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Translation of Osvaldo Lamborghini's key works with an introduction on the translation and Lamborghini's poetics

Those Other Flowers To Come: A Poetry Collection, Sophie Patricia Strand

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Senior Concert I: A Quiet Departure/Senior Concert Ii: 6 Statements, Matthew Charles Dowden

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

Beginning In Heidegger, Nietzsche, And Mallarmé, Austen H. Hinkley

Senior Projects Spring 2016

This project is focused on the theme of beginning. The first chapter is a reading of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time as an attempt at beginning a new ontology that understands itself as a construct that must be, to quote Heidegger, “critical against itself.” The second chapter is a reading of three of Nietzsche's metaphors as a way of both examining and enacting a beginning. The third chapter is concerned with Mallarmé’s revolution of poetic form in Un coup de Dés, which enacts a new beginning on which the poem reflects through its images and form. Through an understanding of …