"The Body Is On" by Kitty F. Davies

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

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