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Search Party

dc.contributor.authorWilman, Tait
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T13:32:12Z
dc.date.available2018-05-17T13:32:12Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-17
dc.date.submitted2018-05-08
dc.description.abstractSearch Party is an installation and video exhibition that explores my identity—how it is constructed and consumed, and how representations of landscapes and discourses of ‘Canadiana’ play in its formation. Since moving to Southern Ontario from Alberta, I feel lost without the Rockies. Attempting to comfort this disorientation, I developed the idea of an alter ego or a persona, a ‘stand-in’ fake for the real. The development of a persona allows for an examination and questioning of the troubled relationship that I have with my own identity. Throughout this body of work, my alter ego attempts to navigate the landscape in search for a place of comfort and a relationship with space. Through the guise of memory and souvenir, the exhibition uses personal memory, strategies of re-enactment, and various familiar display methodologies to explore the aestheticization and commodification of identity, land, and nature.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/13303
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectSearch Partyen
dc.subjectTait Wilmanen
dc.subjectCanadianaen
dc.subjectCanadian Visual Arten
dc.subjectIdentityen
dc.subjectCalgary Stampedeen
dc.subjectRocky Mountainsen
dc.subjectUniversity of Waterloo Art Galleryen
dc.subjectDrakeen
dc.subjectCity Cowgirlen
dc.subjectCanadaen
dc.subjectSummer Sixteenen
dc.subjectCalgary Albertaen
dc.titleSearch Partyen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentFine Artsen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineFine Arts (Studio Art)en
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws.contributor.advisorAndison, Lois
uws.contributor.advisorThompson, Jessica
uws.contributor.advisorCooper, Tara
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Artsen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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