Date of Award
Spring 2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Constance Dejong
Second Advisor
Lisa Corinne Davis
Academic Program Adviser
Joel Carreiro
Abstract
A descriptor of my artistic practice, a text piece, a series of linguistic musings, and more, Sawft.servindat… [v1.7] attempts to explore the dance between language, embodiment, and performativity. More specifically, the text moves through metaphor and metonym, Englishes, Spanishes, and Images, the performativity of representation and the representation of performativity —my body. My body moving across spaces and times. As part of the Sawft.servindat… series, Sawft.servindat… [v1.7] uses the scroll down format of most PDF reading software to activate the inherently embodied experience of intra-acting with technologies, resisting the dichotomy between the virtual and analog. Englishes juxtaposed with Spanishes juxtaposed with Images juxtaposed with me juxtaposed with you. Sawft.servindat… [v1.7] employs the embodied process of reading on a computer as a site for thinking through the politricks of determining what a body is and what bodies matter; we simultaneously ask when am I?
Recommended Citation
Ferreira, Ray, "Sawft.servindat... [v1.7]" (2016). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/62
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Audio Arts and Acoustics Commons, Ceramic Arts Commons, Interactive Arts Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons, Latina/o Studies Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Sculpture Commons