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Beach Bodies : Terraforming and Formal Terror at Wreck Beach Schipper, Jeremy Joseph

Abstract

In a narrative of Vancouver’s Wreck (Ulksen) Beach, Beach Bodies synthesizes historical events and projected futures to call attention to the vast networks and local actors that coalesce to shape our “natural” landscapes and their potential embodiments in a new era. The project positions the beach as the site of confluence for numerous interrelated material flows -- namely those of sand, timber, and plastic -- and unearths their residual cultural and spatial impacts. Beach Bodies is a celebration of all that is transgressive, and seeks to shift our understanding of what constitutes a natural and authentic body.

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Title
Beach Bodies : Terraforming and Formal Terror at Wreck Beach
Creator
Schipper, Jeremy Joseph
Date Issued
2019-04
Description
In a narrative of Vancouver’s Wreck (Ulksen) Beach, Beach Bodies synthesizes historical events and projected futures to call attention to the vast networks and local actors that coalesce to shape our “natural” landscapes and their potential embodiments in a new era. The project positions the beach as the site of confluence for numerous interrelated material flows -- namely those of sand, timber, and plastic -- and unearths their residual cultural and spatial impacts. Beach Bodies is a celebration of all that is transgressive, and seeks to shift our understanding of what constitutes a natural and authentic body.
Subject
Plastic; Beach; Island; Great Pacific Garbage Patch; Nudists; Wreck Beach; Waste; Animal; Anthropocene; Capitalocene; Chthulucene; Wood; Point Grey; Ulksen
Geographic Location
Vancouver (B.C.); Fraser River (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2019-05-07
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0378622
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/70096
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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