Date of Award
Spring 6-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Tom Weaver
Second Advisor
Constance DeJong
Academic Program Adviser
Joel Carreiro
Abstract
A House Without a Roof (AHWAR) is a project that scrutinizes the histories of violence and displacement connecting Europe, Israel, and Palestine. With photographs, appropriated imagery, and texts, I weave together fictions of my family history with representations from Israel’s founding and ongoing military occupation. Ethnic and national identities are ruptured and reassembled as the project interrogates contradictory histories and notions of selfhood. AHWAR questions how we understand global conflict and trauma in light of our individual experience.
Recommended Citation
Golfer, Adam, "A House Without a Roof" (2016). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/51