- Title
- A second skin: investigating the role of dress in identity formation
- Creator
- Featherstone, Juanito Romario
- ThesisAdvisor
- Thorburn, Dominic
- ThesisAdvisor
- Simbao, Ruth Kerkham, 1969-
- Subject
- Identity (Psychology) in art
- Subject
- Clothing and dress in art
- Subject
- Clothing and dress Social aspects
- Subject
- Clothing and dress Psychological aspects
- Subject
- Self South Africa Makhanda
- Date
- 2023-10-13
- Type
- Academic theses
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/425322
- Identifier
- vital:72229
- Description
- This thesis is a secondary component to an artistic practice-led process and as such, is guided by my own artistic practice in that way. In this body of work, I use myself as the main character or protagonist for the artworks that I have created. However, both the thesis and the exhibition also respond to social issues of identity beyond the personal and examines the construction of identity in a South African, and more specifically Makhanda context, as that is the larger context in which I am situated. The work itself is inspired by memories and experiences of feeling uncomfortable in my own (first) skin, and how I found that comfort in my second skin (dress). My professional art practice and my thesis are based on the concept of clothes as a second skin for human beings, specifically observing the ways in which we utilise dress to construct and express our identities. As such, this thesis is an attempt at understanding the relationship between clothes and the body through the lens of identity politics. Through the topics and artworks discussed in visual and textual analysis, this thesis intends to unpack the properties of dress as a complex medium individuals can utilise as a tool to construct their identity. This is partially achieved through the exploration of my own personal experiences of dress and of the spaces that shaped and mediated the construction of identity. Lastly, it is an attempt to understand the experiences of dress in parallel to the experience of the body/self, which consists of the world within and the one outside.
- Description
- Thesis (MFA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art, 2023
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (123 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Featherstone, Juanito Romario
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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