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    Noise & mischief
    DEMETRIOU, ERIC ( 2013)
    Noise and Mischief is the culmination of two-years of research on the inherent negativity towards noise. The connotation of noise arrives as being immediately an undesired excess material. The political economy of noise anticipates a reception of hostility. Given its etymology of the Latin nausea, and associations with obstruction and interruption, this is not surprising. While mischievous behaviour functions with a similar anti-aesthetic and necessity for resistance, its reception is much less offensive and often even likeable. Throughout this project the application of noise is partnered with a mischievous demeanour in order to incite a thrill-seeking experience that may flirt with trouble, danger and pleasure. Incorporating mischief to noise reduces the hostile reception. This is imperative to make the work more accessible to the viewer. Introducing fundamental aspects of play liberates noise from pure obstruction, interruption and chaos. This enables a broader pallet of noise, incorporating elements of nuisance, pest and annoyance as well as humour. Kinetic, sound-based sculpture is the vehicle used in order to deliver this expanded outcome.
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    Signs of life: the art of artificial animism
    Palonen, Noemi Valentina ( 2012)
    Using drawing, painting and sculpture, specifically casting and mould-making techniques, this project involves the visual conflation of dualisms such as subject and object, natural and artificial, animate and inanimate, therefore destabilizing these polarizations by intentionally reconfiguring them. Through visual motifs derived from a variety of discourses, including animism, metamorphosis, and fantasy narratives, my work posits an investigation of non-human subjectivity by ascribing a sense of agency to all natural and unnatural phenomena.
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    Landscape: interwoven knowledges
    Irvine, Lucy Elizabeth ( 2010)
    My project presents an analytical and intuitive consideration of ways in which the epistemology of Western Modernity frames my perception of landscape. Through the research I have begun to develop a more emergent and ecologically interrelated cognition within my practice. This has been facilitated by discussion of the dualistic thinking by which modern knowledge is produced, opening towards an understanding of non-dualistic knowledge formed within landscape. Weaving has precipitated this investigation and has become a sculptural and conceptual methodology that affords a comprehension of different knowledges co-existing as strands of vision contributing to this body of work.