DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/XQ48-RG15
Defense Date
2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Sculpture + Extended Media
First Advisor
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Second Advisor
Kendall Buster
Third Advisor
Lily Cox-Richard
Abstract
'Growth to beginning of gill formation.' explores constructions of knowledges by tracing Western music theory's dissonant wolf interval through non/chronological time. Sound waves are used to demonstrate an abiding material underlying collective value, and language, constructions. The thesis installation this text accompanies is addressed in four categories: translations of Hz to silent video; the language development stage of babble and image; tension and mediated patterns of the unheard, unseen, or unknown; and air pressure.
Brief asides from Gigi, the narrator of a video within the installation, interject. Here, she touches on enforced secrets, blacksmithing as a tool to question the fictive and non-fictive binary, extinction and cyclical time, and maintenance.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-9-2025