Still, they are speaking
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Trim, Alison
issued: 2020-06-01T17:11:51Z
issued: 2020
related degree: Master of Fine Arts - MFA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Still, they are speaking is an exhibition and accompanying written paper, that uses expanded drawing practices developed in and with post-fire landscapes of the Okanagan valley to explore the role of drawing in enabling somatic engagement with land and the non-human. My thesis evolved from an initial enquiry into how a move from Ireland to this new environment would impact my drawing practice. A methodology of regular walking on the outskirts of Kelowna, in the region of the 2003 Okanagan mountain fire, established a somatic relationship with specific place. Creative research taking place in the field led me to explore the different forms of knowledge we encounter through physical presence in the land, and to consider ways in which drawing can bridge the gap between human and non-human knowledges. The clear physical traces of the movement of fire through this land, particularly evident in the bark of trees, culminated in approaches to site-specific mark-making that actively engaged with surface, and led me to consider drawing as wake, a trace of past movement, a story left behind. Equating physical marks in land as forms of knowledge brought me to an exploration of written language as a mark making practice informed by the natural world, a theme that is explored by the writing of David Abrams and Tim Ingold. With wildfire an ongoing environmental issue within the Okanagan specifically and British Columbia as a whole, I have used my drawing practice as a tool to bring the physical marks of wildfire still written in the land into the cultural, conversational space of the gallery. In this exhibition drawing becomes a process through which human understanding can engage in productive communication with the physical language of the land. Through a combination of field and studio work initial drawing experiments developed into large-scale installations occupying a physical presence in the gallery that allows mark and surface to speak.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/74628
note: Still, they are speaking by Alison Trim B. A., Dublin Institute of Technology/Sherkin Island, 2010 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Visual Arts) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) May 2020 © Alison Trim, 2020 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: Still, they are speaking submitted by Alison Trim in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Fine Arts . Briar Craig, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Co-Supervisor Denise Kenney, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Co-Supervisor Myron Campbell, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Greg Garrard, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner Additional Committee Members include: Dr. Lael Parrott, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract Still, they are speaking is an exhibition and accompanying written paper, that uses expanded drawing practices developed in and with post-fire landscapes of the Okanagan valley to explore the role of drawing in enabling somatic engagement with land and the non-human. My thesis evolved from an initial enquiry into how a move from Ireland to this new environment would impact my drawing practice. A methodology of regular walking on the outskirts of Kelowna, in the region of the 2003 Okanagan mountain fire, established a somatic relationship with specific place. Creative research taking place in the field led me to explore the different forms of knowledge we encounter through physical presence in the land, and to consider ways in which drawing can bridge the gap between human and non-human knowledges. The clear physical traces of the movement of fire through this land, particularly evident in the bark of trees, culminated in approache…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2020-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0391081
language: eng
degree discipline: Visual Arts
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
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74628