Unportraits: an Exploration of the Relationship Between Precarity and Portraiture
Abstract
Unportraits: an Exploration of the Relationship Between Precarity and Portraiture addresses an arts-based studio practice exploring the relationship between portraiture and social critique. Specifically, the concepts discussed in this paper are precarity, Guy Standing’s personification of the precariat, and how they influence my portraiture. In order to investigate these concepts the methodology used is autoethnography and an arts-based studio practice. Three projects are discussed in this writing; creating something out of nothing, only to destroy it; …IN PASSING; and Unportraits. Through these, I attempt to display the conceptual and technical development demonstrated in visualizing precarious identity. In the final thesis project, Unportraits, I establish the term unportraiture, a reconstruction of traditional portraiture that surrenders personal identity to express societal narratives.
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Fine Arts
Citation
Allen Kogut, V. (2016). Unportraits: an Exploration of the Relationship Between Precarity and Portraiture (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28589