Situating the Field-based Artist Residency: An Ecocritical and Art Historical Analysis of Signal Fire

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dc.contributor.advisorAmstutz, Nina
dc.contributor.authorSchoenfelder, Cassidy
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-24T17:17:54Z
dc.date.available2020-09-24T17:17:54Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-24
dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyzes Signal Fire, a Portland-based arts organization founded in 2008. The organization produces extended, reading-intensive, and practice-oriented backpacking artist residencies in wild places. My own participation as both artist and researcher in a summer 2019 program called “Waiting for Salmon” informs my analysis of specific artworks made by fellow participants in order to situate and contextualize the residency. I focus on Signal Fire’s pedagogical framework the organization’s ecologically-driven public lands advocacy and collaboration with tribal communities and Indigenous perspectives. Signal Fire adheres to certain aspects of the American wilderness ideal and preservationist environmentalist ethics while simultaneously engaging with the tensions between settler colonial and decolonial approaches to the landscape. By observing Signal Fire, this thesis aims to provide an ecocritical and art historical framework for assessing the significance of other site-specific residencies within contemporary art, environmental humanities, and decolonial studies more broadly.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25648
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectartist residencyen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary arten_US
dc.subjectenvironmental arten_US
dc.subjectindigenousen_US
dc.subjectoutdoor recreationen_US
dc.subjectsocial practiceen_US
dc.titleSituating the Field-based Artist Residency: An Ecocritical and Art Historical Analysis of Signal Fire
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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