Oakes.08
Am Body
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1 Violence on the land requires collective forgiveness. Performance. Video documentation.
2 Violence on the land is violence on the body. Performance. Photographic documentation.
3,4,5 Mutual touch
6 Blind contour drawing
7 Violence on the land requires collective forgiveness. Performance. Photographic documentation.
8 Violence on the land requires collective forgiveness. Mapping. Graphite on paper.
Academic Advisor: Joe Dahmen
2022
1 Violence on the land requires collective forgiveness. Performance. Video documentation.
2 Violence on the land is violence on the body. Performance. Photographic documentation.
3,4,5 Mutual touch
6 Blind contour drawing
7 Violence on the land requires collective forgiveness. Performance. Photographic documentation.
8 Violence on the land requires collective forgiveness. Mapping. Graphite on paper.
Academic Advisor: Joe Dahmen
2022
MLA Graduate Project.
Feelings of loss, guilt, anxiety, and helplessness in the face of changing climate result in an increasingly urgent phenomena of eco-grief. Am Body draws attention to eco-grief as a necessary consideration of landscape architecture, envisioning the discipline’s future as having an abundance of emotional engagement and relational practice. I explore how alternative site analysis methods might deeply engage our emotional connections to landscape through a series of walks through and from my site, a cutblock located near Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island. By walking my site, I at once study the possibilities of learning through embodied research and highlight the shortcomings of normative site analysis methods. In defiance of normative site analysis, I place my body onto the landscape to see what it might mean to learn, to grieve, and to heal here.
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