Graduation Term
Spring 2025
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
School of Art
Committee Chair
Ruth K. Burke
Committee Member
Melissa Oresky
Committee Member
Elisabeth Friedman
Committee Member
Kendra Paitz
Abstract
THE BODY IS ON is a visual art exhibition that considers queer embodiment, pervert as political identity, the arriving climate catastrophe, and difficulty in artmaking. I make use of various concepts from Deleuze and Guattari to interconnect my own with the primary goal to ask: what does futurity look like or mean in these climates (in both a literal, warming sense and an increasingly fascistic, political one), and how do we actualize that future?
Access Type
Thesis-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Davies, Kitty F., "The Body Is On" (2025). Theses and Dissertations. 2101.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/2101
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