Date of Award
Spring 5-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Film Studies
First Advisor
Kelli Fuery
Second Advisor
Stephanie Takaragawa
Third Advisor
Jamie Larkin
Abstract
The goal of this thesis is to illustrate the importance of video art through a spatial and aesthetic phenomenological framework, revealing the critical nature of aesthetic experiences for forming meaning between art-objects and viewers facilitated through acts of curation. Video art, emerging in the 1960s and heavily intertwined with the museum, marks a unique, novel, and profound disruption of the representative regime of aesthetic experiences and objects through its nature to question cultural systems of the world as a radical medium. By evolving from anti-art movements in tandem with technological innovations, video was distant from art history, discourse, and tradition, allowing for women and people of color to work liberated from fine art limitations and set a new precedent for the art and museum community. Video art allows us to shape the future of the museum, curatorial practices, and aesthetic experiences as well as set a greater model for inclusion of voices often lost in the traditional art institution.
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Recommended Citation
Thurtle, Kamla Lucia. "Curation of the Video Art Exhibition in the Museum." Master's thesis, Chapman University, 2021. https://doi.org/10.36837/chapman.000270