I love you, I hate you, I want to kill you : narcissistic fantasy as a narrative device in contemporary visual art /
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2013
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Harris, Ray,
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This creative investigation examines the role of narcissistic fantasy as a narrative device in contemporary installation and performative video. In this project, I examine how psychological reconstructions of reality (fantasies of love, hate and suicide) might be transformed into installation and performative video works, in order to evaluate the importance of studio-based processes in relation to compulsive psychological mechanisms.
This project explores the sublimation of powerful mental processes through art practice, not just as a means of discharge or understanding, but to intensify the studio-based outcomes. The theoretical framework of this research focuses on a psychological examination of the driving forces of fantasy through concepts such as a damaged-self, repression, fantasy and narcissism and is necessarily subjective and self-reflective in nature.
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University of South Australia. School of Art, Architecture and Design.
School of Art, Architecture and Design.
School of Art, Architecture and Design.
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Thesis (Masters by research(Visual Arts Major Studio Project))--University of South Australia, 2013.
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Copyright 2013 Ray Harris. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Australia 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)
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1 ethesis (xiii, 84 pages) :
colour illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-80)
colour illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-80)
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