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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 explores the conventions and limitations of the photographic medium, both material and representational. Suggesting that photography is situated at an important point within its evolution, the paper searches for new directions within a…

My project, The Song of the Whale, is a product of an interdependent narrative structure, and has been led by my conjectural knowledge and artistic research. My research has led me to my current investigation and exploration of particular events and…

This paper outlines the formation of an artistic methodology and an emerging thesis project. Walking and collecting along the shoreline serve as a conduit for creating and point towards a broader engagement with notions of time and temporality. The…

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…

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 document, Enceinte Holobiont, explores the positional, practical, and theoretical underpinnings of my recent sculptures Composite Tension. My thesis (both conceptual and visual) focuses on the model of the maternal body that speaks to…

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…

This support paper seeks to analyze the potential of a new media arts practice in relationship to Second to Fourth Wave feminism discourse. Based on the works produced during my MFA studies at Emily Carr University, I investigate how a humanized…

Through a visual art practice and research, this thesis explores my personal background as a Chinese immigrant, through depicting scattered childhood memory to seek overlooked connections among people, objects, and places. By investigation of…

This paper examines the experience of lucid dreaming both from my own perspective and that of others, as well as the theoretical, psychological and artistic aspects of this phenomenon. I discuss destabilizing factors in lucid dreaming: a term used…

My heritage is glued to colour palette, which is layered underneath historical and contemporary painting influences. In an attempt to answer these questions, I begin to peel back layers of personal history and the physical layers of each painting,…

This project aims to refine notions of ethical design within the commercial communications industry and investigate the potential for actionable support to ethical practice. It intends to provide a unique aggregation and distillation of ethical…

This paper is in support of my artist-based thesis research entitled Aurora. My practice is interdisciplinary with a focus on installation and sculpture, consistently engaged in questions surrounding culturally inherited power structures and…

I envision the world as an intricate labyrinth of stories, where with each encounter we have the opportunity to learn from the lived experiences of others. The perplexities of human existence and a curiosity for understanding and sharing perspective…

My art practice is based on the study of sensory perception. How can the representation of synesthesia function in an art context, specifically painting? Further to this, what is the role of sensory perception in relation to Chinese cosmology and…

My thesis research is an investigation of Guatemala’s history, where I am from. I do this in resistance to silence, venerating and collaborating with my ancestors. The silence I speak of is a Guatemalan characteristic that entails never speaking…

In my work in the MAA program I have focused on bringing the invisible/inaudible into the scope of human consciousness. Human perception is limited to our senses, and in this thesis I will investigate how we can allow for the perception of the…

This thesis proposes that if people and local communities were more skilled in making and repair, they could be more resourceful with the objects around them, making it possible to engage in more sustainable practices. Such skills afford a revised…

This research began with the body, however nobody (no-body) is the location where this practice presently exists. To be clear, this research is developed through symptoms that develop within a body and then exist outside of a body as material.…

Ghosts of the Home: Unfolded Pasts & Traces of the Old Country is a project that encompasses material and conceptual research regarding the realities of people with cross-cultural identities. The core of this thesis work relies on my own Polish-…