Molly Valentine Dierks' Thesis Outline (Tentative)

Part 1: 

Personal Experiences that led me to feminist studies as a means of trying to find a foundation for my work

Part 2:

Feminist Writers and Readings:

           General quotes and ideas that inspired me

Visual Artists who have inspired me for various reasons:

           Janine Antoni

           Mona Hatoum

           Louise Bourgeios

           Meret Oppenheim

Part 3:

Description of each Projects

Personal Experience Associated with Pieces- Memory, Storytelling

Feminist Writing behind each Piece

Gloria Anzaldua

Barbara McKennon

Mary Daly

Linda Alcoff

Judith Butler

Nancy Hartsock

Start with More Intellectual Pieces First and Move into More Personal then Mother and Child Pieces

Part 4:

Connection with audience

Peters Outline

Peter Leix

Plains Burnt Over-Thesis Outline

1. Intro- Autobiographical material- family history-, Jehovah's Witness beliefs and their influence on my association with Flint

2. Flints history- Why flint was chosen what happened, the genesis of the town as a manufacturing base, the initial wagon factories, early visionaries. All of this sets the backdrop to the the film in association with my own personal family history.

3. Character introduction- Why I chose them, their history, why I choose to follow them, the open ended narrative

3. context- Where do I fit in the spectrum of documentary of film. In regards to documentaries in general and more specifically autobiographical, post-industrial, personal narrative films

4 . The avant garde in visual of a documentary film, how do films made by former still photographers differ visually from those of non photographers and how have these films influenced the look of documentary film in general.

6. The genre blending documentary- How do films such as Bombay Beach and The Act of  Killing in future of documentary film. A discussion of a possible new mode of documentary film.

7. The role of a documentarian as a historian or ethnographer.

8. Ethics in Documentary film- How to walk the fine line of properly telling someones story without exploiting them

9. conclusion- how my work expands to the understanding of communities facing similar circumstances as flint.

John G Thesis Outline and Citation List

John Gutoskey

Thesis Outline

Title: I Can See Queerly Now

Thesis Statement: Queer Theory and Queering--still to write

Part 1: Queer Collecting--3rd draft

Part 2: Queering the Valentine--3rd draft

Part 3: Queering My Collections and Queering Myself through the Print--3rd draft

Part 4: Queering Space:  Liminality, Sacred Space, and Installation--2nd draft

Part 5: Queer Personae: Shamanism, Threshold People, and Shaman Johnny--2nd draft

Part 6: Artists--still to write

Part 7: Summary of Thesis Show Installation--still to write (after show comes down)

Citation List

Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

Arnold, Steven, and Weiermair , Peter. Steven Arnold: Exotic Tableaux. Kilchberg/Zurich, Switzerland: Edition Stemmle, 1996.

Arnold, Steven, and Herlihy, James L.Epiphanies. Twelvetrees Press, Psasadena, CA.1989.

Bartlett, Neil. Who Was That Man?: A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde. London: Serpent's Tail, 1988.

Benderson, Bruce. James Bidgood. Taschen, New York, 1999.

Browne, Kath. Queer Spiritual Spaces: Sexuality And Sacred Places. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Pub., 2010.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Cosentino, Donald. Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. Los Angeles, Calif.: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995.

Camille, Michael. Other Objects of Desire: Collectors And Collecting Queerly. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Doris, David Todd. Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-aesthetics, And the Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects In Nigeria. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.

McEvilley, Edward, and Leffingwell, Thomas.Michael Tracy: Terminal Privileges [catalogue Of] an Exhibition. New York: PS 1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., 1987

Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Rev. and enl. New York: Bollingen Foundation; distributed by Pantheon Books, 1964.

Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality. 1: An Introduction. tr. Robert Hurley,
New York 1980.

Galan, Julio, My Mirrors [catalogue Of] an Exhibition. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 2001.

Geldzahler, Henry and Rosenblum, Robert. Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Seventies and Eighties. Thames and Hudson, London 1993.

Gennep, Arnold van. The Rites of Passage. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, 1960.

Goranin, Näkki. American Photobooth. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2008.

Halperin, David M. Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Creativity And the Artist In the Modern World. 25th anniversary ed. 2nd Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2007.

Ingram, Gordon Brent, Bouthillette, Anne-Marie; and Retter, Yolanda. Queers In Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance. Seattle, Wash.: Bay Press, 1997.

Jenzen, Olu The Queer Uncanny. eSharp [Online], (9). Available at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_41216_en.pdf. 2007.

Mills, Robert: “Theorizing the Queer Museum” Museums & Social Issues 2008:1.

Naives And Visionaries: [catalogue Of] an Exhibition. New York: Dutton, 1974.

Pellicer, Raynal. Photobooth: the Art of the Automatic Portrait. English-language
 ed. New York: Abrams, 2010.

Samaras, Lucas. Lucas Samaras: Kiss Kill, Perverted Geometry, Inedibles, Self-absorption, Photo-transformations 1973-1976. [New York]: PaceWildenstein, 1996.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Spencer, Dorothy. Found Object Art. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub., 2002.

Taussig, Michael T. Shamanism, Colonialism, And the Wild Man: a Study In Terror And Healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Thomassen, Bjorn The Uses and Meanings of Liminality. International Political Anthropology . 2009, 2(1). 5-28

Tucker, Michael. Dreaming With Open Eyes: the Shamanic Spirit In Twentieth-century Art And Culture. London: Aquarian/HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Turner, Victor Witter. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1967.

Turner, Victor Witter. The Ritual Process: Structure And Anti-structure. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co, 1969.

Umberger, Leslie, and Erika Lee Doss. Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.

Velez, Pilar. Frederic Marès Museum : Guide [Sculpture and Collecting], Barcelona: Museu Frederic Mares: Institute de Cultura de Barcelona, 2011.

Warner, Michael. The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics And the Ethics of Queer Life. New York: Free Press, 1999.

Wojnarowicz, David, and Dan Cameron. Fever: the Art of David Wojnarowicz. New York: Rizzoli, 1998.

Context context context ! Mia

(This is a beginning list-- there are more,  I just can't place them all at the moment...)

Context in theory/writing:

Scale and meaning/the past,

Susan Stewart,  On Longing

Scale & Cuteness

Daniel Harris, Cute Quaint Hungry & Romantic

The Madeline-- remembrance

Proust, Swan's Way

Varying memories of the same event 

James Young, The Texture of Memory

Personal experience + objects + narrative + Memory

Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence/ the Objects of Innocence

Form & Meaning

Klaus Kripperndorff, The Semantic Turn

Historical:

Recollection + accuracy

Simonides & the Memory Palace

Artists/designers

Rachel Whiteread: Ghosts, casts of houses then torn down 

Do-Ho Suh;  Koren artist, issues of home, replicating home/parts of apartments 

Gregor Schneider; Home, empty, belongings outside of it – large scale 

Takashi Horisaki; Latex casts of doors, handles, parts of places 

Spencer Finch: Trying to recall the exact shade of Jackie O's pink pillbox hat 

Key words: memory, recollection, perception, longing, the intangible/ethereal 

Peters List

Peter Leix context for thesis

Peter Leix

3rd year Seminar Fall 2013

Thesis Context

Context Books

Comeback the rise and fall of the automotive industry

Once upon a car: The Rise and Fall of the big three

The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide: A Down & Dirty DV Production 

Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film

Directing the Documentary, Fifth Edition – Michael Rabiger

Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth 

A Guide to Documentary Editing

Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

Context movies

Roger and Me

October Country

Bombay Beach

Medora

The interrupters

Wasteland

Dark Days

Hands on a hard body

Hoe to Die in Oregon

Happy People

Grizzly Man

Context Personal

Escape, abandonment, refuge, heroes, dysfunctional family, loss, fear, trust, pain, sincerity, misunderstandings, oral history, post industrial, automotive industries, activism.

Katies List

Emersion in collection research

Biking and traveling;

Connection to the land, plant identification and information research

Looking at the Overlooked

Cycles of plant life and human waste

Being everywhere and nowhere

Macro/Micro

Collage, Painting and Installation

Exploring an eastern sense of montage vs. western perspective

Disorientation of pictorial viewpoint and multiple pockets of space

Alchemy; a power or process of transforming something common into something special

Self-similarity and Fractal scaling

Stories and poetry (Flarf)

Movement within a still image

Exposing

Dioramas

Processing; the way I learn and perceive information

Dyslexia

Fracture parts of information vs. whole picture

Theories and Philosophies

Sublime, experience within a landscape

Meditation

The slow movement

Books

Parables of sunlight, Rudolf Arnheim

From A to X, John Berger

The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson

Gargantua, Julian Stallabrass

Reinventing Eden, Carolyn Merchhant

On Photography, Susan Sontag

Collage the Making of Modern Art, Brandon Taylor

Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition, Robert Rosenblum

Beautiful, Sublime, Making of paradise lost, Leslie E Moore

The Sublime, Simon Morley

The Earth has a Soul, C. G. Jung

Sticky Sublime, Bill Beckley

Walden, Thoreau

The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram

Persist, Peter Clothier

A Natural History of the Senses, Ackerman

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, David Abram

Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino

The Power of the Center, Rudolf Arnheim

Seeking Awareness In American Nature Writing, Scott Slovic

Writings, Agnes Martin

Secrets from the Center of the World, Joy Harjo

Artists

Installation

Camille Henrot

Jessica Stockholder

Andy Goldsworthy

David Altmejd

Sarah Sze

Collage Artists

Emilie Clark

Sandy Litchfield

Anselm Kiefer

Arturo Herrera

Painters

Itō Jakuchū

Per Kirkeby

Fabian Marcaccio

Katherine Mann

Morris Louis

Caspar David Friedrich

the context of my work (listed in not too much of a particular order)

A Context for Ann

Cultural:

Studies on the social effects of technology:

Sherry Turkle, Alone Together

Sarah Maslin Nir, “You May Now Kiss the Computer Screen,” New Your Times, 3/5/2013

William Gibson: “No Maps for these Territories,” science fiction writer who coined the term ‘cyberspace’, concerned with “making the conditions of the present accessible to people” through fiction.

Theoretical:

Philip Auslander: “The Comedy of the Failure of Comedy,” “Live from Cyberspace”

Sarah Bay-Cheng

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

Historical:

The rise of Spiritualism in response to advances the technologies of electricity and telecommunications:

Linda Simon, Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

Artists:

Marina Abramovic and Ulay: Relation Works Series

Laurie Anderson: Home of the Brave

Paul Sermon

Krystof Wodiczko

Tony Oursler

Ed and Nancy Keinholz

Paul Pfeiffer

Nam June Paik

William Kentridge

John Maran

Janine Antoni

Andy Kauffman