• Artful Dynamics: How a Visual Arts Distance Learning Environment Might Matter for Notions of Artist-self

      Fitchett, Dale (Auckland University of Technology, 2016)
      This research explores how notions of artist-self are enacted in a postgraduate visual arts learning and teaching environment that relies substantially on an online platform and distance delivery. Tertiary institutions ...
    • Ever Present Archiving: Methodologies for Art Histories Through Fabrication, Invention and Social Practice

      Holderness, Julia Margaret (Auckland University of Technology, 2022)
      Ever Present Archiving explores the ways in which an installation-based practice might critique assumed forms of collected knowledge. The thesis explores modes of fabrication, invention and social practice to interrogate ...
    • Exploring Pacific Talanoa Research Methods in Visual Arts Installation and Performance Art Practices

      Vea, John (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)
      This practice-led PhD thesis encompasses a socially engaged installation and performance art practice that includes individual and co-operative performances. Performance art collectives—currently forming an important part ...
    • Kākahu Hou: The Breath of Cloth

      Luke, Bobby (Auckland University of Technology, 2021)
      This research explores the potential for fashion, film, and garment design investigations to act as knowledge catalysts. The project aims to restore & revitalise understandings of a Taranaki cosmological worldview that can ...
    • ninthWavesound: Feminism Low-Frequency Sound and Empleasurement

      Marsh, Laura Catherine (Auckland University of Technology, 2022)
      The ninthWavesound project fuses feminist activism and a DJ practice to generate an installation and participatory art practice aimed at corporeal, low-frequency, sound- oriented experiences. Drawing from sound system, ...
    • Performance art and the prosthetic

      Gorodi, Suzie (Auckland University of Technology, 2014)
      This PhD project explores questions of liveness, site, and locale through a performance and media arts practice belonging to prosthetic technologies. As such, the project investigates performance, and its encounter through ...
    • Performing DIY Museums in Murihiku: Decentralising the Museum

      McCully, Kathryn (Auckland University of Technology, 2020)
      DIY Museums explore a decentralised museum model, that regards the city and region as the site for responsive, intermittent acts of museum-making performed by and through the community. Part physical, portable and virtual, ...
    • Polyphonies of Belonging: Listening-Singing Aotearoa

      Webb, Olivia (Auckland University of Technology, 2020)
      This thesis is located across the transdisciplinary fields of performance, media arts and music. Attending to the ways a performance practice intersects and shifts amongst these fields, this research engages voice, sound, ...
    • Practices of Use

      Myers, Ruth (Auckland University of Technology, 2017)
      Practices of Use develops self-forming practices of performative and disciplinary body acts, at home and in wider social contexts. Body/subject positionings are explored in these practices as a process of constant ‘becoming’. ...