Abstract

The focus of this qualitative, arts-based inquiry was to understand how disabling illness might be transformed through art. A/r/tography - art/research/teaching and writing, was the method used to explore and understand the meaning(s) held within the art: Border Crossings - a conceptual, figurative, sculptural installation. The installation embodied the experience of disabling illness, symbolically depicting power relationships, identities, subjectivities and the multi-dimensional nature of being, of one coming up against the institution, the illness and the self. Guided by the work of Heidegger (Hermeneutic Circle), Deleuze and Guatarri (Rhizome and The body without Organs) and Foucault (Power Relationships), the A/r/tographer examined the installation through the lens of the poststructural feminist writers Grosz, Davis, Gatens, Weedon, Moss and Dyck with a focus on the body/subjective to explore notions central to understanding being in a body. A further analysis through art theorists Eisner, Allen and A/r/tographers Irwin and Springgay's aesthetic perspectives, explicated the nuance of how art transformed the ill researcher and larger community.

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Author Details

Zulis Yalte, MN, BScN, NP

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

Thesis

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

N/A

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Disabling Illnesses, A/r/tography (art/research/teaching and writing), Art Practice

Advisor

Gweneth Doane

Second Advisor

Donna Trueit

Third Advisor

Peter Cole

Degree

Master's

Degree Grantor

University of Victoria

Degree Year

2012

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None: Degree-based Submission

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Date of Issue

2021-11-16

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