Thesis
Relational anarchy with art: textual escapades in theory, practice, form and content
Southern Cross University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Southern Cross University
2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25918/thesis.251
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Abstract
Relational anarchy with Art is an undisciplined PhD that critically and creatively explores relationship anarchy (RA), a non-hierarchical practice and philosophy of interpersonal relationships. Analytically exploring this topic in association with existent texts about polyamory (‘many loves’), this project investigates RA’s potential in advancing anarchist, feminist and queer political goals; linking the personal and the political.
RA’s commitment to freedom and equality also informs a research space where the anarchist (non)place of utopia is imagined through the accompanying creative work, The Wonder Book of Wondrous Wonderment (TWBOWW), an illustrated digital collage book which replicates the written text of Emile Armand’s To Live One’s Own Life.
The primary source text for TWBOWW is a ten-volume set of the Children’s Encyclopedia (circa 1945–1952), a UK publication originated and edited by Arthur Mee which was widely read in Australia during 1910s–1960s in both educational and domestic settings. Advancing an Anglo-centric worldview, the Children’s Encyclopedia communicated dominant norms of Empire, whiteness and masculinity and their implicit hierarchies.
In digitally cutting and re-casting written text and images from the Children’s Encyclopedia, TWBOWW works the material and semiotic junctures of cultural memory, breaking apart and reconfiguring the past/present/future temporality through a creative arts practice which holds destruction and creation as entwined and mutual acts.
Situated within the field of post-qualitative research, this project is fundamentally informed by poststructuralism and takes anarchist, feminist and queer frameworks as guiding perspectives. Working with concepts of the nomad and becoming, it enacts a range of writing modes to address its topic while reflexively explicating the research process and acknowledging the politics of knowledge production. It invites the Reader on a series of multi-vocal escapades which contain foul and besmirched language and some laughs along the way.
Details
- Title
- Relational anarchy with art: textual escapades in theory, practice, form and content
- Creators
- Nollie Joy Nahrung
- Contributors
- Grayson Cooke (Supervisor) - Southern Cross UniversityErika Kerruish (Supervisor) - Southern Cross University
- Awarding Institution
- Southern Cross University; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Theses
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Southern Cross University
- Publisher
- Southern Cross University
- Number of pages
- iii, 110
- Identifiers
- 991013098513702368
- Copyright
- © NJ Nahrung 2022
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Resource Type
- Thesis