Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Pekarsky, Melvin H. | Erickson, Christa | Kuspit, Donald B.
Date
2009-12-01
Keywords
Performance art | Studio Art
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77888
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This thesis, The Presence of the Absent, is an autobiographical recounting of the production of my major works from 2006 through 2009. This period was marked by my separation from family and from my native country, Spain — and by my father's suicide. Since I left Spain, I have compensated for the physical absence of my loved ones through the creation of works that, through confining my body, function as thresholds between the (me) here and the (they) there. These works comprise a series of installations and performance pieces. Among my more important influences are the works of the visual artist Carolee Schneemann, and of the writer Milan Kundera. | 44 pages
Recommended Citation
Peña-Martínez, Verónica, "The Presence of the Absent" (2009). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3602.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3602