Oleaginous duppy : alternate paths of connection through immaterial to material making
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Bridgemohan, Michaela
issued: 2022-08-05T15:48:10Z
issued: 2022
related degree: Master of Fine Arts - MFA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: “Oleaginous duppy: alternate paths of connection through immaterial to material making” is a support paper that explores the multiplicity and multi-dimensionality embedded in Black diasporic identity through ontological Caribbean folk being, duppy, who was transmitted to me through my father. As an individual who belongs to two different groups—Jamaican and Australian—while occupying in Canada, I explore how duppy’s corporal nature becomes an inspiration to hybrid, liminal sensibilities. I weave personal anecdotes with Caribbean scholars Stuart Hall and Edouard Glissant’s literary works to unpack the ambivalent relations associated with duppy. This autoethnographic approach locates myself into these histories and connections that are necessary to reveal duppy as an embodiment, tethered to forbidden realms of “Other,” a non-essentialist and spiritually ‘taboo.’ Scholars Charmaine A. Nelson, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Kathrine McKittrick, Ralina L. Joseph, and Montré Aza Missouri and authors Dionne Brand, Erna Brodber, all contribute to this unpacking. Transitioning from immaterial legacies to material relations, I refer to culturally informed cooking and grooming practices as ways of making that induce cultural sustenance as emergent potentials to manifest duppy. I connect this process to scholar Christina Sharpe’s concept of ‘wake work’ as an evocative reflection of how cultural rituals sustain memories and connect us with our ancestors. By incorporating my personal experiences in cooking with my father and personal grooming, I employ these relational practices as methodical steps toward creative ritualistic making. By recognizing that consideration for the Land and beings is deeply ingrained in Jamaican customs, the artistic production with Indigo and wood is discussed as more than material mediums, but as material beings, who I collaborate with. To imbue wood with Indigo transfigures their surface as more than a singular entity. The thesis exhibition and the support p…
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/82279
note: Oleaginous duppy: alternate paths of connection through immaterial to material making by Michaela Bridgemohan B.F.A., Alberta University of the Arts, 2017 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) August 2022 © Michaela Bridgemohan, 2022 iii Abstract “Oleaginous duppy: alternate paths of connection through immaterial to material making” is a support paper that explores the multiplicity and multi-dimensionality embedded in Black diasporic identity through ontological Caribbean folk being, duppy, who was transmitted to me through my father. As an individual who belongs to two different groups—Jamaican and Australian—while occupying in Canada, I explore how duppy’s corporal nature becomes an inspiration to hybrid, liminal sensibilities. I weave personal anecdotes with Caribbean scholars Stuart Hall and Edouard Glissant’s literary works to unpack the ambivalent relations associated with duppy. This autoethnographic approach locates myself into these histories and connections that are necessary to reveal duppy as an embodiment, tethered to forbidden realms of “Other,” a non-essentialist and spiritually ‘taboo.’ Scholars Charmaine A. Nelson, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Kathrine McKittrick, Ralina L. Joseph, and Montré Aza Missouri and authors Dionne Brand, Erna Brodber, all contribute to this unpacking. Transitioning from immaterial legacies to material relations, I refer to culturally informed cooking and grooming practices as ways of making that induce cultural sustenance as emergent potentials to manifest duppy. I connect this process to scholar Christina Sharpe’s concept of ‘wake work’ as an evocative reflection of how cultural rituals sustain memories and connect us with our ancestors. By incorporating my personal experiences in cooking with my father and personal grooming, I employ these relational practices as methodica…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2022-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0416596
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
contributor: Willard, Tania
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/82279