Pushpamala: A Performative Deconstruction of the Typography of Indigenous Women Through a Postcolonial Lens
By Katja Neef.
Photography has always been a method to record important moments in time while providing accuracy by capturing the subject, its setting, and the surrounding environment. Yet, seen through a postcolonial lens, photography specifically employed by ethnographers and anthropologists in the 1900s was instrumentalised to create the subordinate 'other' by fixating on differences by removing context…
Material and Spatial Immersion: Embodiment Intensified, Dissolved, Transcended and Problematised
By Tamar Torrance McCambridge
‘Immersion’ is a term with equivocal meaning—a homonym, used often to describe qualities of illusion, interaction, involvement, absorption, and so on. However, while certainly manifold in its characterisations, consistently, the conceptualisation of immersion—as both a process and state of being—involves the dissolution, or transgression of conventional boundaries which separate oneself from the external world.
The Descent Into Abstraction Is Easy.
By Petra Bogle
No image is truly abstract. No such image has or ever will exist. There are degrees of abstraction, ranging from what has some representational form, and discernable meaning to the closest to true abstraction, where the elements of an image convey nothing but their own innate visual qualities, and the meaning discernable only through subsidiary material….
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