Home turf : re-earthing family narrative
department or school: Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Jonsson, Tomas
issued: 2018-05-01T16:47:49Z
issued: 2018
related degree: Master of Fine Arts - MFA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: At the same time as my father’s deteriorating health, the culmination of a long process of development in the neighbourhood my family had lived in for 40 years occurred. Through periodic transfers between home and hospital, we witnessed the uprooting of trees, the construction of roadways and subdividing of properties, including our own. Our house was soon marked for sale and redevelopment, and our affects moved to a new location following his passing. These materials, an archive of ephemera, photos and letters that tell the story of our family from their journey from Denmark and eventual settling in Canada, now sit in cardboard boxes and Tupperware containers. Using these personal ‘affects’, I am engaged in a long-term performative engagement, using them as a lens to interrogate larger conditions urban development, migration, colonial histories, logics in which our history is implicated. These are teased out of the contents of the material and texts in my family’s collection. Familial objects, gathered from my mother’s archive are mailed to our former address. As this house no longer exists, the materials are redirected, wearing the imprinted marks of the journey.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/65726
note: HOME TURF: RE-EARTHING FAMILY NARRATIVE by Tomas Jonsson B.F.A., University of Calgary, 2000 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS in The College of Graduate Studies (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) April 2018 © Tomas Jonsson, 2018 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: HOME TURF: RE-EARTHING FAMILY NARRATIVE Submitted by Tomas Jonsson in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Fine Arts. Dr. Ashok Mathur, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisor Dr. Karis Shearer, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Virginie Magnat, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Francis Langevin Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner iii Abstract At the same time as my father’s deteriorating health, the culmination of a long process of development in the neighbourhood my family had lived in for 40 years occurred. Through periodic transfers between home and hospital, we witnessed the uprooting of trees, the construction of roadways and subdividing of properties, including our own. Our house was soon marked for sale and redevelopment, and our affects moved to a new location following his passing. These materials, an archive of ephemera, photos and letters that tell the story of our family from their journey from Denmark and eventual settling in Canada, now sit in cardboard boxes and Tupperware containers. Using these personal ‘affects’, I am engaged in a long-term performative engagement, using them as a lens to interrogate larger conditions urban development, migration, colonial histories, logics in which our history is implicated. These are teased out of the contents of the material and texts in my family’s collection. Familial objects, gathered…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2018-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0366127
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
type: Still Image
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/65726