Thesis Proposal

I propose for my master’s thesis project an analysis of international biennales and art fairs. This analysis would be three-fold: an examination of how globalism and an increasingly global art market interact to produce the international art exhibition, a discussion of the history of biennales and international fairs from the perspective of how ideology is incorporated in exhibition architecture, and a close look at how four interdisciplinary artists contribute to the changing definition of artist, curator and exhibition. The goal of my analysis is to find, through these three different perspectives, new strategies for international exhibition.

I will also conduct research on domestic and commercial architecture, where traditional and global manifestations of culture are most effectively synthesized, in Southeast Asia and North Africa to inform strategies for international exhibition developed through my research, thus combining theory and practice.

Get Moving: International Art Exhibitions in a Global World

Get Moving: Bibliography


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About

I have five years experience working in museums, art libraries, as art an educator and organizer for a youth center in Africa, and most recently as a member of the board of directors for Mobius Artists’ Group in Boston, an award-winning, 30-year old performance art collective. I currently work for Harvard University at the Fine Arts Library in the Digital Resources department.

I am specifically interested in the way space is constructed and perceived; from an architectural point of view, but also from the point of view of artists working interdisciplinarily between architecture and sculpture: Do-Ho Suh’s three dimensional fabric maps of transparent private space; Marjetica Potrc’s neo-utopian architectural solutions and her collaborative Lost Highway Project; Lead Pencil Studio’s site-specific architectural drawings in three dimensions that are deeply rooted in local histories.

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