Redrawing ecology : dark ecological thought in art-design practice

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dc.contributor.advisorKaden, Marthieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorFourie, Martha Elizabethen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-13T08:24:35Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-09T06:54:08Z
dc.date.available2018-02-13T08:24:35Z
dc.date.available2018-04-09T06:54:08Z
dc.date.issued2018-03
dc.descriptionThesis (MA(VA))--Stellenbosch University, 2018.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis follows my practice based research process as a visual communication designer concerned with visualising deep ecological thought. Throughout this thesis, I apply Timothy Morton’s dark ecology theory that argues that an awareness of negativity and tragic melancholy is necessary in order to understand our current ecological climate. This mood is integral to closing the gap between internal human involvement and the supposed external environment. The first section Animism - from deep roots to dark loops is devoted to a theoretical unpacking of animism as a dark contested theory in relation to the darkness of our present ecology in crisis. In the second section, Aesthetic animism, I discuss my own creative practice as an expression of ecological thought supported by an animist mode of perceiving. Animism is unpacked as an outsider philosophy joins forces with working with waste matter in my art-design practice, more specifically the excrement of the ocean. This text incorporates a synergy between knowledge and visuality, text and designed objects as a means of practicing ecological literacy. In order to aid the ecology in crisis this text argues for a renewed, modest, prophetic kinship with our environment, that extends a hand towards non-human agents including the earth within a practice based research process in the realm of visual arts.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaaraf_ZA
dc.format.extent68 pages : illustrationsen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103364
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectEnvironmentalism in arten_ZA
dc.subjectEcology in arten_ZA
dc.subjectEcology in art -- Exhibitionsen_ZA
dc.subjectDark ecology theoryen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.subjectAnimism in arten_ZA
dc.titleRedrawing ecology : dark ecological thought in art-design practiceen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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