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Inclusive Design for Regaining Lost Identity is a research project that aims to design and develop accessible clothing that is inclusive and fashionable to foster psycho-social well-being and to enhance the self-esteem of women with disabilities.…

This thesis project is auto-ethnographic research and practice-based inquiry, into the cultural construction and representation of women. Movement, video installation, photography and handmade collage are combined to examine the marginalized spaces…

This paper chronicles my thesis research into memory, place and painting. I focus my research on the disused homestead of Demetri Cabin on Saltspring Island, and use this paper to introduce the reader to the site. Using two distinctive voices, one…

This thesis outlines the various approaches, processes, and works that I used throughout an ongoing negotiation between my professional routine as an employee with the Government of British Columbia and my work as an artist. The process of…

The body of work presented within this document is wide-ranging, sometimes performative, material based or ephemeral. Although I discuss my use of traditional media like painting, drawing and video, I also describe how I expanded the very notion of…

Throughout this paper, I will lay out some of the underpinnings of my practice. My practice is multivalent; it ranges widely, draws from many sources and employs a multitude of media. It reflects my explorations in using the parafiction as a…

The writing presented in this paper attempts to break down the broad structures within which I exist. I would like to preface the document by stating that I see the writing and art presented in this paper as steps in a broader effort to gain agency…

In this thesis, I discuss feminist acts of resistance and the politics of location, relating this to my own artwork and to that of other performance artists. Taking this as a point of departure, I further position my creative practice in relation to…

This paper discusses strategies for breaking conventional semiotic systems of signs and symbols towards machines and technologies, and considers alternative modes for interactive technologies and common technological objects. My research explores…

'Unspoken Intentions' and 'the Rooted People Heard Me All the Same' is a composition demonstrating an intertwining of Coast Salish knowledge and western scientific evidence. The confluence of these two worldviews form the…

This thesis is a phenomenological investigation of sound as a form of touch and the effects of close listening. A methodology for studio process is first proposed that relies on a background of memories and embodied experiences that contribute to a…

I make performances using space, time, the body — and sometimes things — as materials. These performances attempt, through a personal and embodied investigation of these materials, to explore an intimacy with the viewer that engages with questions…

Owing to the long history of being colonized by China and France, the Vietnamese language has been exposed to the cultural conception of other nations. It has been separated by great gulfs in time, geography, different social and political systems,…

This paper is about memory and about narrative, both of which are concerned with what is missing. It explores the ways that the events in our individual lives, our collective lives, become history and narrative. The paper considers writer Thomas…