DOI

https://doi.org/10.25772/H6J2-AB38

Defense Date

2017

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts

Department

Photography and Film

First Advisor

Justin James Reed

Second Advisor

Brittany Nelson

Third Advisor

Jon-Phillip Sheridan

Abstract

This thesis examines the formal and conceptual framework of my artistic practice as it culminated in the installation of my thesis exhibition, Prime, Perform, Recover. My exhibition seeks to operate as an analysis and critique of the separation inherent in media presentation and rhetoric surrounding natural disasters.

I utilize the aesthetics and vocabulary of disaster capitalism and prepping culture in order to pose direct questions about ecological and social change. I examine the role of images within mass media image production as an all encompassing Now-Time. In this paper I describe frameworks that my practice proposes as potential solutions to these problems, and I position my research in the context of artists and artworks that have influenced me and operate within similar channels as my own.

Comments

Administrator note: The author's legal name is Patrick Smith. Their professional name is Patrick Harkin.

Rights

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Is Part Of

VCU University Archives

Is Part Of

VCU Theses and Dissertations

Date of Submission

5-15-2017

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