Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Ings, Welby"
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'Asi - The presence of the Unseen
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)In 1993, Wolfgramm referred to the climax in faiva as ‘asi (the presence of the unseen). This spirit of artistic expression is an agent sometimes identified when Oceanic people work together to bring artistic works to their ... -
Below, Behind, Across: Bttm Methodology and Queer Representation in Contemporary Art
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)This practice-led PhD investigates how socio-ecological art practices can facilitate queer representation in Aotearoa. Through the development of the research project, a bttm methodology emerged as an activating agent ... -
Beyond Words: an investigation into aspects of meaning articulated through the material forms of 'old' media as expressed in a polysemous narrative
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)This work is a creative production PhD project that consists of a designed creative text and an exegesis. The creative text, a novel, is made up of of seven artefacts: a novella, a photograph, a series of newspaper clippings, ... -
Bright on the Grey Sea: Utilizing the Xiang System to Creatively Consider the Potentials of Menglong in Film Poetry
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This practice-led, artistic thesis develops a corpus of three film poems using the Xiang system (a philosophical and aesthetic system adapted from Chinese poetry) as both the central creative strategy and methodology to ... -
Displacement of Self-Continuity: An Illuminative Heuristic Inquiry Into Identity Transition in an Allegorical Animation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2023)This practice-led artistic research considered how a fictional allegory might be employed to examine issues of acculturation, displacement and identity transition. Using the story of a refugee family, the study explored ... -
Gay Men Coming Out Later in Life: A Phenomenological Inquiry Into Disclosing Sexual Orientation in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Despite the passing of significant legislation in the late 20th century ("Homosexual Law Reform Act, 1986," ; "Human Rights Amendment Act, 1993") homonegativity remains an issue in Aotearoa New Zealand. For example, in the ... -
How Then to Act? A Performance As Research Investigation Into the Potentials of Expanding an Actor's Agency
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This thesis investigates how to act in a type of theatre that honours the traditions of psychological realism and heightened Shakespearian acting and also accommodates the incorporation of a multiplicity of mediatised ... -
Illuminativa - The Resonance of the Unseen
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)This practice-led creative arts thesis investigates the metaphysical notion of light as an activating principle and how this is subjectively experienced. Light is phenomenologically explored as a catalytic agent that is ... -
Mindfulness and Drawing: A Visual Poetic Inquiry Into the Representation of Mindful Drawing Experiences
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)Studies investigating mindful creativity suggest that art making practices may be approached through meditative methods, cultivating greater present moment awareness and minimising self-judgment. This thesis addresses three ... -
The Mood of the Fifth: Exploring Interbeing with(in) the Refrain
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)In this study, I present five pieces I composed which explore Rudolf Steiner’s indications on music for young children. I assess the potential of Steiner’s comments on the suitability of the interval of the fifth to guide ... -
NAATAPUITEA: An Artistic Interpretation of Traditional and Contemporary Samoan Musical Structures, Instrumentation and Koniseti
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)Positioned as an artistic, practice-led inquiry, this thesis asks “What is the potential for Samoan ways of knowing the land, genealogy and ritual to resource creative fāgogo (Samoan storytelling).” In researching this ... -
Ngā Pūrākau mō Māui: mai te patuero, te pakokitanga me te whakapēpē ki te kōrero pono, ki te whaihua whaitake, mē ngā honotanga. The Māui Narratives: From Bowdlerisation, Dislocation and Infantilisation to Veracity, Relevance and Connection.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Nā te tāmitanga ā tauiwi i te Māori i Aotearoa, tokomaha ngā reanga i noho mōriroriro mai i te reo me te ahurea Māori. Ko tēnei mahi hinonga he whakapakari i te pito mata o te pūrākau mā te whakamahi i ngā hangarau matihiko ... -
"Nobody Makes Games for Us" - An Investigation Into the Independent Design of Audio Games Through the Development of the Audio Game Hub and Blind Cricket
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)According to the World Health Organization (2019), an estimated 217 million people worldwide are visually impaired and 36 million are blind. Although there are approximately 114,000 video games currently in active circulation ... -
Painting and time: the dynamic of the actual and the virtual
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)Painting and Time: The dynamic of the actual and the virtual is a practice-led thesis exploring imagery and association derived from the transit space of travel. This is a place where time is highly coded, where the traveller ... -
Paradoxical Realities: A Creative Consideration of Realismo Maravilhoso in an Interactive Digital Narrative
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This artistic, practice-led thesis is concerned with the potentials of polyvocality and interactive digital narrative. The practical project, Saints of Paradox, is formatted as a printed picture book that can be expanded ... -
Patterns of corporeality: the grotesque text/ile body
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)This practice-led research project explores the feminine abject through textile design featuring grotesque ornament and pattern. Maintaining a normative feminine identity in a Western culture involves, more likely than ... -
The Process of Immersive Photography: Beyond the Cognitive and the Physical
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This thesis constitutes a practice-led, artistic research project that asks: What are the issues that must be addressed when photographing land, such that one might express an immersive, embodied, spiritually-attuned ... -
The Sound of Identity Interpreting the Multi-dimensionality of Wāhine Māori Through Audio Portraiture
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)This PhD study interpreted and represented the multidimensionality of wāhine Māori (Māori women) through audio-portraiture. In so doing, it demonstrated how the physically accountable (recollection, opinion, environmental ... -
Te Kore - Exploring the Māori concept of void
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)Mohi Ruatapu, a nineteenth century Māori tohunga (scholar) from Tokomaru Bay, positioned Te Kore (which translates as nothingness, void and also potentiality) within Te Ao Mārama, the realm of contemporary human existence. ... -
Te Mana-A-Māui / The Magic Of Māui: Transforming and Shapeshifting Pūrākau Māori
(Auckland University of Technology, 2022)This practice-led thesis is concerned with writing, illustrating, and designing a trilogy of stories for contemporary young readers. The study addresses the question: How might a philosophy drawn from the Māui cycle be ...