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Simultaneously culture heroes and stumbling buffoons, Tricksters bring cultural tools to the people and make the world more habitable. There are common themes in these figures that remain fruitful for the advancement of culture, theory, and critical praxis. This dissertation develops a method for opening a dialogue with Trickster figures. It draws from established literature to present a newly conceived and more flexible Trickster archetype. This archetype is more than a collection of traits; it builds on itself processually to form a method for analysis. The critical Trickster archetype includes the fundamental act of crossing borders; the twin ontologies of ambiguity and liminality; the particular tactics of humor, duplicity, and shape shifting; and the overarching cultural roles of culture hero and stumbling buffoon. Running parallel to each archetypal element, though, are Trickster's overarching critical spirit of Quixotic utopianism and underlying telos of manipulating human relationships. The character 'Q' from Star Trek: The Next Generation is used to demonstrate the critical Trickster archetype. To be more useful for critical cultural studies, Trickster figures must also be connected to their socio-cultural and historical contexts. Thus, this dissertation offers a second set of analytics, a dialogical method that connects Tricksters to the worlds they make more habitable. This dialogical method, developed from the work of M. M. Bakhtin and others, consists of three analytical tools: utterance, intertextuality, and chronotope. Utterance bounds the text for analysis. Intertextuality connects the utterance, the text, to its context. Chronotope suggests particular spatio-temporal relationships that help reveal the cultural significance of a dialogical performance. Performance artists Andre Stitt, Ann Liv Young, and Steven Leyba are used to demonstrate the method of Trickster dialogics. A concluding discussion of Trickster's unique chronotope reveals its contributions to conceptions of utopia and futurity. This dissertation offers theoretical advancements about the significance and tactics of subversive communication practices. It offers a new and unique method for cultural and performative analyses that can be expanded into different kinds of dialogics. Trickster dialogics can also be used generatively to direct and guide the further development of performative praxis.
ContributorsSalinas, Chema (Author) / de la Garza, Amira (Thesis advisor) / Carlson, Cheree (Committee member) / Olson, Clark (Committee member) / Ellsworth, Angela (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2013
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Waiting for a Passenger / Ship to Go to Sea is a performance made by In Kyung Lee and performed by five dancers. It premiered in Americas Gallery at ASU Art Museum on January 20, January 24, and Jan 27, 2015. The work existed in a container of geometric spatial structure and cyclical rhythmic cycles, which were filled with repetition, accumulation, and minimalistic durational movement vocabulary. The dancers courageously ventured through the rigorous and exacting structure, transforming individual and collective struggles and vulnerabilities into the beauty of being human. This document looks into the background and creation process of the work.
ContributorsYi, In-gyŏng (Author) / Standley, Eileen (Thesis advisor) / Ellsworth, Angela (Committee member) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
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This sensory ethnographic research study used a walking methodology to explore the potential of an asset-based approach to arts development. Inspired by socially engaged artists who incorporate walking as their practice, this study explored a rural arts community by walking with research participants to gain a sense of their history, consider past and future artistic developments, as well as map/learn about the physical environment through stories, conversations, and sensory-based experiences. Many arts administrators utilize a needs-based approach to identify community deficits and assets through surveys, formal interviews and focus groups, thus this research aimed to devise a different approach. This research theorized walking as an ecological inquiry and explored the embodied and entangled experiences that emerged, with the goal of co-creating knowledge from the perspective of community members, to inform and expand arts administration approaches to community arts initiatives and development. Using an ecological and mapping analytical framework, the findings describe and trace the emergence of boundary objects that were entangled with the community members stories and memories that highlighted the relational aspects of the town, community, and art. The ecological and mapping analysis directly related to my walking method because all are multilayered, multisensory, and embodied ways of learning and relaying information about a place. To conclude this research, I outline an arts administration toolbox with five distinct steps and processes to follow when utilizing this walking method within the fields of arts administration and art education.
ContributorsShelley, Morganne (Author) / Coats, Cala (Thesis advisor) / Young, Bernard (Committee member) / Ellsworth, Angela (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021