(Dis)Orientation: Identity, Landscape and Embodiment in the work of Roni Horn

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dc.contributor.authorGarrie, Barbara Anne Christina
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-07T02:09:29Z
dc.date.available2012-12-07T02:09:29Z
dc.date.issued2012en
dc.descriptionFull thesis with illustrations can be requested via Inter-Library Loan.
dc.description.abstractThis thesis considers the links between identity and landscape in key works by American artist Roni Horn, focusing on a selection of her photo-installations and books. In particular it argues that Horn approaches landscape as a performative category through which to address the performativity of identity, and that in doing so her work privileges the viewer as an embodied participant. Drawing on a feminist approach grounded in phenomenology, the thesis locates androgyny as a key structuring principle in the artist’s work. Identifying herself as neither male nor female, Horn employs the notion of in-between-ness to negotiate gender binaries of male/female and to describe the indeterminate and contingent nature of androgynous being. Importantly, the thesis argues that Horn addresses these issues of identity by staging experiences in her work that invite the viewer to perform the very processes by which identity is defined and played out. This strategy is examined through concepts of doubling, the sublime, horizons and dwelling, each of which in their own way involve a sense of orientation and disorientation that gestures toward the in-between-ness of androgyny. The thesis also considers the tensions between visuality and embodiment in Horn’s work. Her use of photographic images within an installation practice is one that establishes a complex set of relations between the opticality of the photograph and the actuality of ‘real’ space. It is argued that the experiential potential of Horn’s photo-installations and books is only realised through the dialectical relation between visuality and embodiment in which both are equally privileged.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/7307
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26021/3621
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Art History and Theoryen
dc.relation.isreferencedbyNZCUen
dc.rightsCopyright Barbara Anne Christina Garrieen
dc.rights.urihttps://canterbury.libguides.com/rights/thesesen
dc.subjectRoni Hornen
dc.subjectPhotographyen
dc.subjectAndrogynyen
dc.subjectEmbodimenten
dc.subjectLandscapeen
dc.subjectHorizonen
dc.subjectSublimeen
dc.subjectDwellingen
dc.subjectFeminismen
dc.title(Dis)Orientation: Identity, Landscape and Embodiment in the work of Roni Hornen
dc.typeTheses / Dissertations
thesis.degree.disciplineArt Historyen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Canterburyen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen
uc.bibnumber1833598en
uc.collegeFaculty of Artsen
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