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Yolkkh: The Story Of My People, Amna Zelimkha Yandarbin
Yolkkh: The Story Of My People, Amna Zelimkha Yandarbin
Theses and Dissertations
The name of my project is: Yolkkh, The Story of My People. With this project I present a series of scarves each one bearing an illustrated scene in order to tell a story – my story and the story of the Noxci people. Noxci are the people who are referred to as “Chechens” by Russians and are generally known by that title. As a Muslim, I have witnessed the way Western media tend to dehumanize my community. In order to contrast this dehumanizing process, I thought that telling the story of my family would help reverse Islamophobic tendencies and raise …
Ties That Bind Us, Christine M. Orr, Christine M. Orr
Ties That Bind Us, Christine M. Orr, Christine M. Orr
Theses and Dissertations
when objects converge in a space
they start a dialogue of their lives
lives that become entangled with your life
your memory
objects are the narrators of memory
a stain, a chip, a tear
materials embed meaning and metaphor within the process of creating
woven cloth, throwing lines, squeezed and pressed coils
all become remnants of the hand
as I make, play, and collect materials and objects
questions are brought forward
How do these components talk to one other?
What are they saying?
How do I listen?
knowledge is generated in the transformation of material through the process of
making …
"With The Commodity In The Hand": A Practical Investigation Of The Intersection Of Material Culture With Performance Theory, Katharine M. Given
"With The Commodity In The Hand": A Practical Investigation Of The Intersection Of Material Culture With Performance Theory, Katharine M. Given
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the intersection of performance theory and material culture through the practices of garment reconstruction. In chapter 1, I examine key theorists in the fields of material culture and performance studies and articulate the connections between the two fields. In chapter 2, Using practice as research, I recount the experience of building reproduction garments from the eighteenth century using historically appropriate tools and methods, as well as the experience of wearing those garments. Finally, in Chapter 3, I walk through a possible historical examination of my encounter with these reconstructed garments, and consider the way in which feminine …