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Artmaking as Entanglement: Expanded notions of artmaking through new materialism

Ravisankar, Ramya N
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1339-9105
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557001719441416

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Arts Administration, Education and Policy.
Matter and materiality are integral to the artmaking process, but research into materiality in this realm has been largely unexplored. Instead, discussions and explorations of artmaking practice are articulated with the assumption that the artist is the primary active agent. This dissertation interrogates how artmaking and philosophical inquiry can expand current understandings of the concepts of matter, material, and materiality in artmaking. This study looks to the philosophies of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty and their reaction to the pervasiveness of Cartesian dualism in Western and their contributions to notions of subjectivity, Being, being-in-the-world, embodiment, and perception, and these ideas form the basis from which this study develops. New materialist thought offers a significant contribution to the discussion of materiality and artmaking practice enacted through this study. This dissertation is expanded through an engagement with the new materialist theories of the feminist philosopher and theoretical physicist Karen Barad. Particularly, Barad’s concept of entanglements as they pertain to her theory of agential realism and her notion of onto-epistemology, or knowing in being, inform the research process in this dissertation. Moving away from merely reflexive accounts that privilege the artist and researcher as the prime subject in artmaking, this study instead embraces a diffractive methodology. This methodological direction is inspired by Donna Haraway and developed by Karen Barad and entails reading insights through one another to generate and attend to the differences and interferences enabled. By diffracting the theories that undergird this research through artmaking practice and philosophical inquiry, differences and new understandings are generated. In this study, artmaking practice and philosophical inquiry serve as methods through which insights on the role of matter, material, and materiality in artmaking practice develop. Attending to the insights emerging through the diffractive approach to artmaking and philosophical inquiry enables a reconceptualization of the materiality in and of artmaking practice so that the very notion of what constitutes materiality in artmaking is in flux.
Jennifer Richardson (Advisor)
270 p.
Art Education
New Materialism; Art Education; Art; Artmaking; Posthumanism; Posthuman; Post-human; Visual Arts; Studio Art

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  • Ravisankar, R. N. (2019). Artmaking as Entanglement: Expanded notions of artmaking through new materialism [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557001719441416

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ravisankar, Ramya. Artmaking as Entanglement: Expanded notions of artmaking through new materialism. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557001719441416.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ravisankar, Ramya. "Artmaking as Entanglement: Expanded notions of artmaking through new materialism." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557001719441416

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