Date of Award
Spring 6-6-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Photography
First Advisor
Brian Ulrich
Second Advisor
Laine Rettmer
Third Advisor
Anne West
Abstract
In a Condition of No Light is an autofictional investigation into lineages of familial domesticity. The performances therein circumnavigate one family in one domestic environment, yet are in dialogue with repertoires learned and rehearsed within legacies of myth, literature, theater, film, music, and image; as well as through the otherwise untraceability of embodied memory and inherited trauma. The methodologies used are primarily photographic but also encompass practices reaching towards sculpture, installation, and performance. The line of questioning reserved for this inquiry is how a home, its objects, and inhabitants generate, spacialize, and embody the conditions of wealth, whiteness, and gender. At stake is the potential to fracture calcified molds, reenvision archetypes of enmeshment, and develop rituals of empathy across time, selves, and generations through the impossible practice of healing.
Recommended Citation
Perino, Alana, "In a Condition of No Light" (2023). Masters Theses. 995.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/995
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Comments
View exhibition online: Alana Perino, In a Condition of No Light