Ever-shifting matter: an investigation into the spatial, temporal, and sensorial process of my artmaking

Abstract

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the written component of my practice-based research. This piece of writing takes the form of a journal in which I discuss my interest in the philosophy and practice of meditation, and the theories of Deleuze and Guattari. I focus on how these relate to one another, and on the impact they have on my life and practice. Because the method that I use is the self-reflexive practice of journaling, concepts and theories are engaged informally as they pertain to my own understandings of them, and I focus mainly on how they influence and inflect my work and process. The accompanying glossary provides more academic definitions, obtained from a wide variety of sources.

AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is die geskrewe komponent van my praktyk-gebaseerde navorsing. Die skryfstuk neem die vorm aan van ’n joernaal, waarin ek my belangstelling in die filosofie en in die beoefening van meditasie, asook in die teoriee van Deleuze en Guattari bespreek. Ek fokus op hoe bogenoemde met mekaar verband hou, en op die uitwerking wat dit op my lewe en op my praktiese werk het. Vir hierdie doel maak ek gebruik van selfondersoekende dagboekinskrywings. Konsepte en teoriee word dus informeel opgeteken in terme van my eie begrip daarvan, en ek konsentreer hoofsaaklik op hoe dit my werk en my werkproses beinvloed en nuanseer. Die meegaande woordelys verskaf verdere akademiese definisies wat uit ’n wye verskeidenheid van bronne verkry is.