Come Together: An Exploration Of Contemporary Participatory Art Practices, Karly A. Mcintosh

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This thesis examines the growing trend of participatory art practices employed in the installation works of contemporary artists Roman Ondák, Ann Hamilton, Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett. It focuses on how three art installations use interactive and collaborative methods, each within a different exhibition setting, in order to include and communicate with the public audience. The first chapter discusses how Ondák’s Measuring the Universe draws on shared experience to encourage viewers to interact with the installation within a large art gallery. The second chapter considers how Hamilton’s the event of a thread creates a social event between participants and …

Across Boundaries, Diana A. Yoo

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In a combined Masters of Fine Art Thesis exhibition and dossier, entitled Across Boundaries, I focus primarily on transformational, productive labour as an important theoretical approach to help acknowledge the silenced trauma surrounding the Korean War in North America. My art practice focuses on an exploration of a hybrid, diasporic identity where I am situated between two cultures—my ancestral home, Korea, and the home where I was raised, Canada. Through my research trip to South Korea, I was able to discover the difficulties of the war that the two Koreas face and that is kept separate from the West. …