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Dissenting the master narrative.
Essays, Post-graduate UOA Art History Society Essays, Post-graduate UOA Art History Society

Dissenting the master narrative.

By Maya Love.

Alice Procter guides Uncomfortable Art Tours through British museums as an act of dissent. She begins by describing an object, how it is displayed and how it might have arrived in a museum. Using visual analysis as a point of entry, she opens the door to discuss the museum as a colonial institute…

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Material and Spatial Immersion: Embodiment Intensified, Dissolved, Transcended and Problematised
Essays, Post-graduate UOA Art History Society Essays, Post-graduate UOA Art History Society

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.

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