DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/6ESW-HH57
Defense Date
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Photography and Film
First Advisor
Justin James Reed
Second Advisor
Sasha Waters Freyer
Third Advisor
Jonathan Molina-Garcia
Abstract
Arts communities are currently reevaluating and restructuring power dynamics within their systems to accommodate a broader range of experience and subjectivity. However, the forces of control are still largely dictated by a broader patriarchal culture. This complicated, tangled dynamic is the focus of my research. Female artists who make work about men or about patriarchy more generally, are consistently subjected to its influence as the dominant cultural experience—the invisible “truth” that everything either is, or acts in reaction to its position. In reality, patriarchy is no longer gender specific. I will be addressing my relationship to it as well as my role within it. I aim to talk about my own female subjectivity; the psychological reality of living within this long-standing societal structure. This project, by examining those things generally left unseen in the creation of artworks, will shed light on the insidious ways we go about disguising domination through language and behaviors.
Rights
© Ashley Goodwin
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-19-2020
Included in
Art Practice Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Photography Commons