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Recognizing The Parallels Between Fashion And Art: The Designs Of Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent And Rei Kawakubo, Alexa S. Runsdorf
Recognizing The Parallels Between Fashion And Art: The Designs Of Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent And Rei Kawakubo, Alexa S. Runsdorf
Senior Projects Spring 2016
My project explores the parallels and overlaps between the worlds of fashion and art through surveying the designs of Elsa Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent and Rei Kawakubo.
Warhol’S Hustler And Queen Assembly Line: Deconstructing Factory Produced Genders And Their Roles In Contemporary Queer Culture, Connor Matthew Marley
Warhol’S Hustler And Queen Assembly Line: Deconstructing Factory Produced Genders And Their Roles In Contemporary Queer Culture, Connor Matthew Marley
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Marginalia, Scott Edward Vander Veen
Marginalia, Scott Edward Vander Veen
Senior Projects Spring 2016
To explain, in a phrase, Marginalia is a space of queer esotericism. These terms may be evocative at best; rational understanding, through careful language, is inherently at odds with Marginalia itself.
Queerness, esotericism— both are nebulous terms because they invoke rejection and subversion as a means of orientation. They are always antitheses. They reject canon where it comfortably stands: the canon of contemporary aesthetics, of rationality, of identity, sexuality and body. Marginalia, as much as it is able, exists explicitly and intentionally outside the narratives that we are most familiar with.
Estranging itself from normative structures, Marginalia is given …
08j3c71v17y, Margot Kalach Hanono
08j3c71v17y, Margot Kalach Hanono
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Human consciousness seems uniquely constituted. We add, subtract, divide, link, memorize, imitate, transform, reform, measure, categorize, analyze, predict, deconstruct, and rebuild the world around us as a way of understanding. These structures are ingrained in our everyday life. What does it mean that we know through these illuminating boundaries? And how does knowledge build up on itself on the basis of their entwined systems?
The making of this work consists of a questioning of our constant desire to make sense of things, and the criteria that we build in order to satisfy this desire; in other words, the thought-spheres that …