DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/YK8R-D179
Defense Date
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Sculpture + Extended Media
First Advisor
Massa Lemu
Second Advisor
Guadalupe Maravilla
Third Advisor
Sable E. Smith
Abstract
The Break is a personal investigation into problems and possibilities of representing my specific transgender identity.
Trans as a tactic to speak about a state of forever becoming, forever in between, outside of and in opposition to dominant social norms of being.
Trans as a model for a different way of viewing and being in the world.
Can we form a different kind of horizontal shared power though a collective refusal to play into existing structures from which we have been excluded? What are the potentials for modeling other ways of being, other ways of (dis)engaging, other ways to be in the world?
What if we can disengage words from their established meanings? Can we re-see each other without the language that upholds the social conditions that maintain internalized categories? Can we collectively create the conditions to imagine the possibility of building other worlds in this world?
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-11-2018