Graduate Student, School of Arts & Social Sciences
Thesis Title: Panofsky and Partialisation
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My practice is chiefly concerned with the scrambling of language - hinging upon notions of interpretation and re-interpretation.
'Panofsky and Partialisation' is about the development of a system/program that removes the historical conditions that 'control' the access to 'new knowledge and experience.' The theorist Erwin Panofsky in his seminal work Studies in Iconology (1939) explores the conditions that exercise our ability to look at the meaning behind a work of art. He begins by laying down a structured framework that places varying accounts of interpreting art into a hierarchy of possibilities. Panofsky makes us aware of a ‘history of tradition’ that controls interpretation and throughout his text he points to the restrictions that such traditions place over a deeper and more individual interpretation.
Partialisation is a term I am using to describe 'the mobilisation or removal of concepts that prevent or restrict independent knowledge discovery - with the possibility of returning such concepts in a general condition and in the original or in an altered form.' In order to challenge certain historical traditions and their associated school of thinking I view the concept as an 'object' in order to give it a concrete form.
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