Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Jackson, Mark"
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The camera-dancer dyad: a critical, practical dialogue of virtual and live studio methodologies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This research project constitutes studio-based inquiry into the benefits of dance collaborators using handheld, lightweight video cameras to develop ‘new’ methods of dance making. To uncover compositional openings, we ... -
City/State: Foucault urbanism & risk
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The State is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: “I, the State, am the people.” –Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathrustra. The city model already dominates the ... -
Figuring diachrony: ethics before the voice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)This PhD project engages the fields of contemporary art, performance studies and performance philosophy. It explores participation and the relation of ethics to politics, through performance art works in public places. The ... -
Innovative Learning Environments as Agents of Change
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)As described in the New Zealand Curriculum, education was—and still is—in a period of one of its most significant innovations. Agents of educational change, both human and non-human, include teachers, students, architects, ... -
Jouissance & the sexual reality of the (two) unconscious
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The topic of jouissance and the sexual reality of the unconscious has been a key concern of mine from my initial years of practicing psychoanalysis in both its clinical and critical frameworks. For my PhD research, this ... -
Jouissance: a Cixousian encounter of the song of songs; Jouissance: living-reading
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)This thesis, Jouissance, emerges at a distension of disciplinary borders, engaging the hermeneutics of the Hebrew Bible’s Song of Songs. In the milieu of exegetical readings, Jouissance asks “can she be read?” Jouissance ... -
Minus Theatre: Scenes, Elements
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Minus Theatre: scenes, elements experiments with theatre as the art, method and technique, to explore processes of individuation. It entitles a PhD thesis, undertaken at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), consisting ... -
Mnemotechne of design — ontology and design research theories
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)This thesis commences with the premise that while design practices may be said to have a very long, perhaps ancient, history, ‘Design’ as a discipline is of more recent origin, while ‘Design Research’ as a disciplinary ... -
Open limit: field as witness
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)This PhD project is undertaken through a creative works process, culminating in a series of experiments produced during candidature, polyphonically named Open Limit; field as witness. A polyphonous textual, folding practice ... -
Painting of time: duration emergence sensation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)‘Painting of time: duration, emergence, sensation’ investigates a methodological conundrum where a painter is unable to orientate painting towards its objective, because the object of ‘pursuit’ is the absolutely new whose ... -
Performance Test Labour
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)Performance: Test: Labour is a practice-led PhD research project that systematically engages the fields of performance art and dance choreography. The research aims to offer new perspectives on the international field of ... -
Physiotherapy and Fundamental Ethics - Questioning Self and Other in Theory and Practice
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Physiotherapy and Fundamental Ethics engages the field of physiotherapy through a critique of its contemporary foundations from the perspective of the ethics philosophy of Emmannuel Levinas, in order to develop novel ... -
Seamless knitwear: singularities in design
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)The ‘hypothesis’ of this practice-led research is that seamless knitwear processes, recognized as mass- production tools within a post-Fordist system of the mass-production of difference, may be rethought as design innovation ... -
Te Oro o te Ao: the Resounding of the World
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa Greetings, greetings, greetings to us all This practice-led PhD is a situated Pacific response to international critical dialogues around materiality in the production and ... -
The artist will be present: performing partial objects and subjects
(Auckland University of Technology, 2008)'The Artist Will Be Present' explores objects as traces that stem from performed actions, and my body in performance. Part-sculptural objects, video and sound act as performance documents that expand on notions of the ... -
Whakaaro Papa: Anthropos Design and Decolonising Metaphysics
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Seemingly each week, or even every day, headlines draw attention to the incremental yet radical changes occurring as a result of cultural practices that bear witness to the Anthropocene, as a time in which human activity ... -
A World's Return: A Phenomenological Encounter With Film Worlds
(Auckland University of Technology, 2016)The overarching aim of this practice-led research is to explore how the processes of filmmaking constitute a ‘world’ that can be entered, understood, and reflected upon. The research asks how such worlding is set-up. This ...