This is also an elevator : compulsory assimilation in academia and choosing personal disclosure and anti-production art philosophies as an antidote

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dc.contributor.advisorLucas, Kristin, 1968-
dc.contributor.advisorMcMaster, R. Eric
dc.creatorGray, Bee (Melissa Bee Joy)
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-20T03:05:01Z
dc.date.available2022-12-20T03:05:01Z
dc.date.created2022-08
dc.date.issued2022-08-01
dc.date.submittedAugust 2022
dc.date.updated2022-12-20T03:05:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper is an autobiographical account of the writer’s experience throughout her two years of graduate study. It is a chronological, prose-poetry retelling of the events that befell her, supplemented by art and cultural theories. Eight chapters include an introduction to Allan Kaprow’s theory of avant-guard life-like art, praise for art about mundane everyday experiences, an introduction to queer archiving, an overview of the writer’s multimedia artwork, and a critical analysis of the professional academic artist persona. Misogyny in the arts, academic jargon, technical proficiency in western art modalities, and impersonal material studies are problematized. There is a call for action to include the personal, specific, and odd parts of one’s life into the field of art in order to steer away from the mute and sterile impulses of western art historical traditions. This paper concludes that art is primarily a feeling; a psychic, emotional experience—and this way, it can exist outside of art materiality and art commodity markets.
dc.description.departmentStudio Art
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/117040
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/43935
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectFeminist art
dc.subjectThe everyday
dc.subjectMinor objects
dc.subjectQueer affect
dc.subjectAcademic jargon
dc.subjectSocial media culture
dc.subjectPerformance art
dc.subjectConceptual art
dc.subjectReady-made
dc.subjectEileen Myles
dc.subjectJudith Butler
dc.subjectGender performativity
dc.subjectVassification
dc.subjectPolly Pocket
dc.subjectBarbie
dc.subjectCrocs
dc.subjectWomen's clothing
dc.subjectMisogyny in the arts
dc.subjectSimulation
dc.subjectSimulacra
dc.subjectJean Baudrillard
dc.subjectAllan Kaprow
dc.subjectLife-like art
dc.subjectArt-like art
dc.subjectPop culture
dc.subjectAnticapitalist
dc.subjectLabor and artwork
dc.subjectAnti-classist artwork
dc.subjectConsumer culture
dc.subjectConsumer goods in art
dc.subjectInstitutional critique
dc.subjectCultural studies
dc.subjectCreative writing
dc.subjectPoetry
dc.subjectArt and accumulation
dc.subjectQueer literature
dc.subjectQueer essay
dc.subjectWestern art history
dc.subjectQueer nihilism
dc.subjectQueer feminist
dc.subjectImmaterial art
dc.subjectArt theory
dc.subjectMemoir art
dc.subjectAnn Cvetkovich
dc.subjectNew narrative literature
dc.subjectQueer theory
dc.subjectQueer prose
dc.subjectQueer artist
dc.subjectAvant-guard art
dc.subjectFluxus
dc.subjectCamp
dc.subjectUncanny
dc.subjectCompulsory assimilation
dc.subjectComedy in art
dc.subjectVideo art
dc.subjectFeminist video art
dc.subjectQueer video art
dc.subjectText artist
dc.subjectAutobiographical art
dc.subjectArt feeling
dc.subjectSlow arts movement
dc.subjectJouissance
dc.titleThis is also an elevator : compulsory assimilation in academia and choosing personal disclosure and anti-production art philosophies as an antidote
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentStudio Art
thesis.degree.disciplineStudio Art
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts

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