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Performing Joseph Cornell's Chronotopes Of Assemblage, Sarah Kathryn Jackson
Performing Joseph Cornell's Chronotopes Of Assemblage, Sarah Kathryn Jackson
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this project I study Joseph Cornell’s practices of art-making through a performative lens. Rather than focusing on his finished products, I am interested in his embodied processes of assemblage. I call on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope to articulate how time and space operate within Cornell’s finished works and his processes of assemblage art. In so doing, I conceptualize Cornell’s textual chronotope, métaphysique d’éphemera or “everyday magic,” as well as his chronotopes of assemblage: wandering, archiving, collaging, and assembling. I move from the finished work to the contingencies and strategies of the performance of assemblage. This project is …