UO Art 2017 MFA
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Date
2017
Authors
Department of Art, University of Oregon
Campbell, Andrew Douglas
Couch, Chelsea
Weng, Esther
Moore, Joe
Asahina, Lee
Hampton, Mandy
Morgan, Mary Margaret
Wallace, Meril
Linn, Ron
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University of Oregon
Abstract
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the
publication of French literary critic and theorists
Roland Barthes’ influential 1967 essay,
The Death of the Author. In countless MFA
critiques and seminars, artists have grappled
with Barthes’ essay and its implications
related to de-skilling, negation
of authorial voice, and birth of the
reader/viewer. Each of the nine artists
included in the University of Oregon’s
2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition
undoubtedly addresses the viewer,
challenging audiences to explore
new ways of thinking about and moving
in the world through infiltration, translation,
and humor. Yet in all of the artworks
presented, the viewer “is born” not at the
expense and death of the author, but through
a shared insistence on the importance of the
relationship between artist and viewer, artistic
presence, and/or the laying bare of the
production apparatus.
Description
22 pages
Keywords
catalgoue, sculpture, photography, exhibition