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Throngs, Yinan Chen
Throngs, Yinan Chen
Masters Theses
Ceramic is an important element of my artworks. It is a material with strong bearing capacity, and at the same time, it is a tool with the attribute of nature and social function, for the similarity with humans can be found in it. Thanks to its characteristics, I am able to transform the forms, colors, and quality to complete my works. Collected from nature, carved with human hands, the clay is cultivated and my expectation of the outside world is satisfied.
Icarus : How To Survive The Fall, Emile Stark-Menneg
Icarus : How To Survive The Fall, Emile Stark-Menneg
Masters Theses
In this writing I will explore several films, videos, performances, and photographs from the past century that resist capitalism’s tendency to crush hubris, exaltation, and indetermination. But first, I would like to reimagine the Greek myth of Icarus. How has the myth shaped our understanding of escape? Daedalus, Icarus’s father, attempts to escape exile from the island of Crete by building his son a pair of wax wings. He warns his son not to fly too close to the sun because the wax will melt, and not to fly too close to the sea because the wings will become waterlogged. …
Glossary I : Graduate Thesis, Eli Backer
Glossary I : Graduate Thesis, Eli Backer
Masters Theses
Situated across various contexts and spaces– studio, domestic, gallery– Eli Backer’s work explores open collaboration with machines, often producing multiples to reflect on, obfuscate, and to futilely hold the space and shape of loss. In this text, she surveys radio stations, music, writing, and art that has formed and driven her practice and sets a framework for the limited continuation of this document.
The Movement In Nature : Deep Missing, Missing You From Far Away, Chia-Chi Wu
The Movement In Nature : Deep Missing, Missing You From Far Away, Chia-Chi Wu
Masters Theses
The Movements in Nature
Soft waves, soft clouds, soft grass,
In the ocean, in the sky, on the ground. Mellow, smooth, satisfying,
No sharpness, no harm, just round circles.
Imagination of the mixture of the nature.