Browsing Creative Practice Dissertations and Theses by Title
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(I’m)permeable: How can a contemporary installation practice provide understandings of permeability through the embodiments of rituals?
(2022)Artists, thinkers, and everybody, vaguely works under the same conditions we agree upon as life. As does the matter that composes them and their worlds. (I’m)permeable—is a body of shorthand long-form written observations ... -
Kaupapa Māori music video production: How can bringing kaupapa Māori to music video production in Aotearoa guide creative processes and outcomes?
(2022)An intention underpinning this project was to find a way to support the restoration of mātauranga Māori by bringing mātauranga Māori and my Māori self with me to my filmmaking practice. My chosen methodology for this ... -
A life between us : exploring embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following through dance
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can dance contribute to a better understanding of the embodied and relational aspects of a post-heroic approach to leading and following? ABSTRACT: Society’s investment in the leader-as-hero ... -
Living furniture: Exploring sustainable solutions through furniture design
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION How can the development and application of a design framework support the design and production of sustainable furniture in a New Zealand context? ABSTRACT This exegesis researches and compares the ... -
Mana mokopuna mai i te waharoa ki te wahakura : activating sacred potential for mokopuna through raranga and tikanga pā harakeke
(2017)This kaupapa rangahau seeks to establish the application of te reo o te pā harakeke me ona tikanga as a tangible model for oranga whānau and the weaving of wahakura as a way for mokopuna to access rongoā. It is an articulation ... -
No hem: Handling deviance in inhabited worlds
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can figurative painting promote a sense of stillness in a contemporary context of institutional uncertainty and accelerated social change?” INTRODUCTION: Tugging tribulations are described in ... -
Planet of the Long White Cloud : science fiction cinema in New Zealand cultural identity
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the science fiction genre be used to explore cultural identities within New Zealand? ABSTRACT: Stargazing in the wilds of New Zealand is a wondrous thing. The cool, clean air chills your ... -
Primary : film adaptation in theory and practice
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How do all the aspects of the filmmaking process, from scriptwriting to the editing suite, impact the outcome and overall ‘success’ of the adaptation? ABSTRACT: The adaptation of works for film has ... -
Rust never sleeps: How can material exploration contribute to an understanding of time and place in contemporary sculpture and installation art?
(2023)My project explores my ongoing investigation employing an amalgamation of processes in relation to an emergent discussion regarding the vulnerability and fragility of things; the passing of time and site as expressed in a ... -
Seeing our like: Conceptualising a post-‘male gaze’ style of filmmaking
(2022)For over a century society has shown a huge appetite for Hollywood films. Hollywood films have been successful in reaching a wide and diverse audience. Despite the breadth of exposure, a dominant lens, that of the White ... -
Stoking the flames of the digital fireplace. How can the practice of vlogging contribute to an understanding of the presentation of self in contemporary oral history making?
(2020-08-04)Stoking the Flames of the Digital Fireplace is a creative practice based project with an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic focus in which I experiment with and analyse the medium of video-logging (vlogging) on the Youtube ... -
Understanding mortality through the lens of contemporary photography: How can explorations of the abject and the uncanny in contemporary photography provoke experiences of embodiment and mortality?
(2022)This essay explores how contemporary photography can provoke an embodied experience in an audience to help initiate the contemplation of mortality. Emerging research and a growing ‘death positive’ movement proposes that ... -
Urbanize
(2018)Painter Tira Walsh remembers the introduction to technology in the school’s curriculum in the late 90’s. The intrigue in this manipulative tool for creating hybrid images combined with an engagement in a discussion of ... -
Uso 4 Life
(2022)Culture and identity among New Zealand’s Pacific diaspora are highly complex and multifaceted contemporary discussions. Through post-colonial theoretical standpoints and creative outputs, many Pacific artists have sought ... -
The view from nowhere
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can 3D-modelled and 3D-printed dioramas, sculptures and interactive digital artwork be used to explore my thesis that the Enlightenment/Counter- Enlightenment dialectic forms the core structure of ... -
Workbench
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the User-Centred Design practices inform the development of resources that enhance the creative confidence of professional teams? ABSTRACT: This research project is an exploration of how ... -
Writing blackness for the New Zealand screen: How Africanising screenwriting practice contributes to black diasporic cinema in New Zealand
(2022)Writing Blackness for the New Zealand Screen is a practice-led experiment in decolonising screenwriting practice. Situated within Black Diasporic Cinema, Pinky (the screenplay) serves as both research and output, exploring ...
