ETDs

This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.

In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.

Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at gradformat@asu.edu.

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Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now

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Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now presents a group of artists working in both natural and urban environments whose work exploits the power of place to address issues of social, environmental, and personal transformation. Through a focused selection of key works made between 1970 and 2019, which extend…

Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now presents a group of artists working in both natural and urban environments whose work exploits the power of place to address issues of social, environmental, and personal transformation. Through a focused selection of key works made between 1970 and 2019, which extend beyond traditional categories, Counter-Landscapes illuminates how the methodologies created by women artists in the 1970s and 1980s are employed by artists today, both men and women alike. Developing a practice of performative actions, these artists countered the culture that surrounded and oppressed them by embodying the live elements of performance art in order to push for social change. Looking back to the 1960s and the counter-culture mindset of the times, I approach the histories of land, performance, and conceptual art through feminist studies. Then I apply the same feminist approach to philosophical histories of landscape, place, and space. Through a discussion of an extensive range of works by 25 artists, this research seeks to demonstrate the indelible influence of feminist art practice on contemporary art. It brings the work of an innovative generation of women artists—Marina Abramović, Eleanor Antin, Agnes Denes, VALIE EXPORT, Rebecca Horn, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Ana Mendieta, Adrian Piper, Lotty Rosenfeld, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Beth Ames Swartz, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles—together with more recent work by artists who have adopted and extended their methods. These artists, both male and female, include Allora  &  Calzadilla, Francis  Alÿs, Angela Ellsworth, Ana Teresa Fernández, Maria  Hupfield, Saskia  Jordá, Christian Philipp Müller, Pope.L,  Sarah Cameron Sunde, Zhou Tao, and Antonia Wright.
ContributorsMcCabe, Jennifer (Author) / Fahlman, Betsy (Thesis advisor) / Hoy, Meredith (Committee member) / Asmall Willsdon, Dominic (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
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Cuerpos de Fuerza y Resistencia: Dismantling the U.S. – Mexico Border in the Work of Ana Teresa Fernández and Margarita Cabrera

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Cuerpos de Fuerza y Resistencia: Dismantling the U.S. – Mexico Border in the Work of Ana Teresa Fernández and Margarita Cabrera addresses how their artwork maps a geography of resistance that counters the carceral landscape of the U.S. – Mexico border. I apply Michel Foucault’s (1926 – 1984) methodologies of…

Cuerpos de Fuerza y Resistencia: Dismantling the U.S. – Mexico Border in the Work of Ana Teresa Fernández and Margarita Cabrera addresses how their artwork maps a geography of resistance that counters the carceral landscape of the U.S. – Mexico border. I apply Michel Foucault’s (1926 – 1984) methodologies of the panopticon to the border as a lens to analyze how Fernández and Cabrera dismantle this structure of power through centering their work on the invisible labor of immigrant women. Foucault’s assertions of disciplinary spaces compare to the unethical conditions in migrant detention centers and maquiladoras. Giorgio Agamben’s (b.1942) study of the concentration camp and theory of bare life also provides a point of comparison between these spaces and harmful treatment of immigrants that Fernández and Cabrera criticize. Through a focused selection of Fernández’s performances and subsequent documentary paintings from her Pressing Matters, Borrando La Frontera, Entre and Of Bodies and Borders series, I analyze how her repetitive and metaphoric acts of labor communicate liberation and autonomy. In a similar vein, I focus on Cabrera’s collaborative embroidery workshops and resultant Space in Between sculptures of Indigenous plants of the Southwest, her vinyl sculptures of domestic appliances, and collaged works on paper from El Flujo de Extracciones. Like Fernández, Cabrera’s aesthetics of labor reveal the disciplinary and abusive institutions of the border, such as the maquiladora, and thus deconstruct these isolating power structures. In considering Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s (1942-2004) borderlands theory, Fernández and Cabrera’s work exemplifies a cultural duality that is integral to disrupting immigrant oppression. I further engage with writer and activist Grace Chang’s gendered analysis on immigration as a framework to address the feminist social justice issues that Fernández and Cabrera explore in their work. Fernández and Cabrera exemplify how centering immigrant women will not only aid in the destruction of xenophobic systems, but also empower stories about women, and invoke a continuous resistance against patriarchal traditions.
ContributorsEnriquez, Ariana (Author) / Fahlman, Betsy (Thesis advisor) / Afanador-Pujol, Angélica J (Committee member) / Hoy, Meredith (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021