The Role of Traditional Martial Arts in the Modern Community
5th Dan Thesis
We live in an expanded globalized culture and as such become cultural consumers as well as producers. In this current age of virtual spaces, digital anonymity, information overload, and cultural production, the relationship between traditional martial arts practices, health, and society is more important than ever. Martial artists are active producers of a shared collaborative culture, and as such engage in and explore the intersections between the body, identity, and community.
5th Dan Thesis
We live in an expanded globalized culture and as such become cultural consumers as well as producers. In this current age of virtual spaces, digital anonymity, information overload, and cultural production, the relationship between traditional martial arts practices, health, and society is more important than ever. Martial artists are active producers of a shared collaborative culture, and as such engage in and explore the intersections between the body, identity, and community.
| The Role of the Martial Arts in the Modern Community |
Understanding Self through Movement
MFA Thesis
MFA Thesis
| Understanding Self through Movement.pdf |
A Look at Contemporary Minor Literatures
Essay
In Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature written in 1975 by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, they employed the writings of Franz Kafka as a way to examine the concept of a minor literature. This essay argues that contemporary artists not only qualify as a minor literature, but use their position of minority to subvert the greater socio-political environment.
Essay
In Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature written in 1975 by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, they employed the writings of Franz Kafka as a way to examine the concept of a minor literature. This essay argues that contemporary artists not only qualify as a minor literature, but use their position of minority to subvert the greater socio-political environment.
| A Look at Contemporary Minor Literatures |
The History of Sexuality
Annotated Bibliography
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault and The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller.
The History of Sexuality is a three-volume series written between 1976 and 1984 by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. The intellectual climate in France at the time was heavily influenced by structuralism; a method of interpretation and analysis of human cognition, behavior, and experience that focused on the meaning being derived from the relationships between the elements within a conceptual system.
Annotated Bibliography
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault and The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller.
The History of Sexuality is a three-volume series written between 1976 and 1984 by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. The intellectual climate in France at the time was heavily influenced by structuralism; a method of interpretation and analysis of human cognition, behavior, and experience that focused on the meaning being derived from the relationships between the elements within a conceptual system.
| The History of Sexuality.pdf |
In Defense of the Poor Image
Annotated Bibliography
In Defense of the Poor Image by Hito Steyerl
In Defense of the Poor Image written by Hito Steyerl in 2009 for the online E-flux journal, analyzes the post-financial crisis contemporary world, which characterizes, and is characterized by, the networked digital culture of the Internet (Aikens 7). Steyerl traces the economy of poor images, how their usage has developed and is perpetuated, and how their status within a certain hierarchy of pictures is designated.
Annotated Bibliography
In Defense of the Poor Image by Hito Steyerl
In Defense of the Poor Image written by Hito Steyerl in 2009 for the online E-flux journal, analyzes the post-financial crisis contemporary world, which characterizes, and is characterized by, the networked digital culture of the Internet (Aikens 7). Steyerl traces the economy of poor images, how their usage has developed and is perpetuated, and how their status within a certain hierarchy of pictures is designated.
| In Defense of the Poor Image |
Hard Targets, Male Bodies, Feminist Art and the Force of Censorship in the 1970s
Chapter Review
Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution by Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Cornelia H. Butler.
The section, Hard Targets: Male Bodies, Feminist Art and the Force of Censorship in the 1970s, written by Richard Meyer, explores an obscure strand of feminist art that departs from the typical focus of the female experience and embodiment, and instead focuses on the visual imagery and eroticized revisioning of the male body.
Chapter Review
Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution by Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Cornelia H. Butler.
The section, Hard Targets: Male Bodies, Feminist Art and the Force of Censorship in the 1970s, written by Richard Meyer, explores an obscure strand of feminist art that departs from the typical focus of the female experience and embodiment, and instead focuses on the visual imagery and eroticized revisioning of the male body.
| Hard Targets, Male Bodies, Feminist Art and the Force of Censorship in the 1970s |
Art as Information, Systems, Sites, Media
Chapter Review
American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit
David Joselit in chapter 5, Art as Information, Systems, Sites, Media, traces the ideological changes within American art after the Fluxus, Pop Art, and Minimalist movements; focusing on the social, economic, and political shifts within these new art making practices. Joselit provides an in depth look at the new interest in art as pure information, communication, and an open ended process, by following leading artists whose work explores these exchanges of information.
Chapter Review
American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit
David Joselit in chapter 5, Art as Information, Systems, Sites, Media, traces the ideological changes within American art after the Fluxus, Pop Art, and Minimalist movements; focusing on the social, economic, and political shifts within these new art making practices. Joselit provides an in depth look at the new interest in art as pure information, communication, and an open ended process, by following leading artists whose work explores these exchanges of information.
| Art as Information, Systems, Sites, Media |
Standing on the Shoulders of Amazons
Chapter Review
Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors : Superwomen in Modern Mythology by Jennifer Stuller
Jennifer Stuller’s book entitled Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors queries “what happens to our social consciousness if the presence of our mythic hero is - and has always been - overwhelmingly male?” To answer this question Stuller chronicles a comprehensive history and critique of American and British pop culture Superwomen, starting in the 1930s and working up to the 2000s.
Chapter Review
Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors : Superwomen in Modern Mythology by Jennifer Stuller
Jennifer Stuller’s book entitled Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors queries “what happens to our social consciousness if the presence of our mythic hero is - and has always been - overwhelmingly male?” To answer this question Stuller chronicles a comprehensive history and critique of American and British pop culture Superwomen, starting in the 1930s and working up to the 2000s.
| Standing on the Shoulders of Amazons |
The Artist’s Properties: From Conceptual Art to Identity Politics
Chapter Review
American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit
What is conceptual art? David Joselit explores this question and the beginnings of conceptual art and theory. In the late 1960’s and 1970’s, artists began to move away from the notion of mastering a specific technique or medium in favor of becoming managers, producers or curators of information, new systems, process and feedback loops (Joselit 161). This change in process and dogma created a change in the art object generating a new relationship between the art object and artist; which in turn began a new aesthetic practice in the art world.
Chapter Review
American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit
What is conceptual art? David Joselit explores this question and the beginnings of conceptual art and theory. In the late 1960’s and 1970’s, artists began to move away from the notion of mastering a specific technique or medium in favor of becoming managers, producers or curators of information, new systems, process and feedback loops (Joselit 161). This change in process and dogma created a change in the art object generating a new relationship between the art object and artist; which in turn began a new aesthetic practice in the art world.
| The Artist’s Properties: From Conceptual Art to Identity Politics |
The Returns of Touch: Feminist Performances, 1960-80
Chapter Review
Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution by Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Cornelia H. Butler.
The Returns of Touch: Feminist Performance 1960-1980, penned by Peggy Phelan, examines the international foundations of art made under the influence of feminism; specifically the exploration of touch through feminist performance. This historical survey focuses on the crucial period of the feminist movement when the majority of feminist activism, theory and art making took place.
Chapter Review
Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution by Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Cornelia H. Butler.
The Returns of Touch: Feminist Performance 1960-1980, penned by Peggy Phelan, examines the international foundations of art made under the influence of feminism; specifically the exploration of touch through feminist performance. This historical survey focuses on the crucial period of the feminist movement when the majority of feminist activism, theory and art making took place.
| The Returns of Touch: Feminist Performances, 1960-80 |
Their Memory is Playing Tricks on Her: Notes Toward A Calligraphy of Rage
Chapter Review
Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution by Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Cornelia H. Butler.
Their Memory is Playing Tricks on Her: Notes Towards a Calligraphy of Rage includes a number of essays designed to target areas that Catherine Lord refers to as a counter-archive (Cottingham 441). An archive is a set of historical constructs, knowledge, and memories that are collected, stored, and recovered.
Chapter Review
Wack!: Art and the Feminist Revolution by Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Cornelia H. Butler.
Their Memory is Playing Tricks on Her: Notes Towards a Calligraphy of Rage includes a number of essays designed to target areas that Catherine Lord refers to as a counter-archive (Cottingham 441). An archive is a set of historical constructs, knowledge, and memories that are collected, stored, and recovered.
| Their Memory is Playing Tricks on Her: Notes Towards a Calligraphy of Rage |
Kill Bill - O Ren Ishii Fight Scene
Movie Review
Kill Bill directed by Quentin Tarantino
The O Ren Ishii Fight scene from the movie Kill Bill is a commentary on the acquisition of traditional Asian martial arts into the western world by perceived force and the interplay between the two ideologies existing simultaneously. Traditional and contemporary approaches meeting in a clash of wills.
Movie Review
Kill Bill directed by Quentin Tarantino
The O Ren Ishii Fight scene from the movie Kill Bill is a commentary on the acquisition of traditional Asian martial arts into the western world by perceived force and the interplay between the two ideologies existing simultaneously. Traditional and contemporary approaches meeting in a clash of wills.
| O Ren Ishii Fight |
The Artist Is Present
Performance Art Review
The Artist is Present by Marina Abramović
The Artist is Present, was a new performance presented during her retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. Abramović’s newest performance cements the use of body as a medium and calls into question the reliance of intense and intimate relationships between the performer and the audience, demonstrating that the immaterial and intangible moments within performance are the moments in which artists must engage.
Performance Art Review
The Artist is Present by Marina Abramović
The Artist is Present, was a new performance presented during her retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2010. Abramović’s newest performance cements the use of body as a medium and calls into question the reliance of intense and intimate relationships between the performer and the audience, demonstrating that the immaterial and intangible moments within performance are the moments in which artists must engage.
| The Artist is Present |
Objects: General and Specific - Assemblage, Minimalism, Fluxus
Chapter Review
American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit
American Art Since 1945 chapter 4: Objects, General and Specific: Assemblage, Minimalism and Fluxus follows a conceptual map of art-making in Post-war America, providing readers with a diverse survey of the ideologies, approaches and aesthetics within the field of art starting from 1945. Author David Joselit focuses his critiques and interpretations on artists who contributed distinct strategies and tendencies within their work; selecting both artists who fit within a specific canon of art history, and those that do not.
Chapter Review
American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit
American Art Since 1945 chapter 4: Objects, General and Specific: Assemblage, Minimalism and Fluxus follows a conceptual map of art-making in Post-war America, providing readers with a diverse survey of the ideologies, approaches and aesthetics within the field of art starting from 1945. Author David Joselit focuses his critiques and interpretations on artists who contributed distinct strategies and tendencies within their work; selecting both artists who fit within a specific canon of art history, and those that do not.
| Objects: General and Specific - Assemblage, Minimalism, Fluxus |
The Spaces of Installation Art
Book Review
From Margin to Center by Julie H. Reiss
Reiss strives to fill a void in the history of installation art; by focusing on central artists based in New York beginning in the late 1960s, and then following the gradual assimilation of installation art into mainstream museums and galleries.
Book Review
From Margin to Center by Julie H. Reiss
Reiss strives to fill a void in the history of installation art; by focusing on central artists based in New York beginning in the late 1960s, and then following the gradual assimilation of installation art into mainstream museums and galleries.
| The Spaces of Installation Art |
Sports, Integration and Participation; The Nørrebro Taekwondo Club
Chapter Review
Fighters, Girls and Other Identities : Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club by Lian Malai Madsen
Madsen studies the connection between sports clubs (extra curricular activities that include fitness or sports action) and the discourses of social integration. Specifically Madsen worked with the Nørrebro Taekwondo Club in Copenhagen Denmark in 2003, to study the process of identity positioning with adolescent practitioners through a community of practice.
Chapter Review
Fighters, Girls and Other Identities : Sociolinguistics in a Martial Arts Club by Lian Malai Madsen
Madsen studies the connection between sports clubs (extra curricular activities that include fitness or sports action) and the discourses of social integration. Specifically Madsen worked with the Nørrebro Taekwondo Club in Copenhagen Denmark in 2003, to study the process of identity positioning with adolescent practitioners through a community of practice.
| Sports, Integration and Participation; The Nørrebro Taekwondo Club |
I’m Not the Type of Person Who Does Yoga: Women, “Hard” Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance
Chapter Review
Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors Around the World by Alex Channon and Christopher R. Matthews
“I’m Not the Type of Person Who Does Yoga”: Women, “Hard” Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance; an UK professional athletes interview study conducted by Mark Mierzwinski and Catherine Phipps from 2014-2015. This text is an expanded study regarding women’s increased participation in “Hard” (Muay Thai and MMA) martial arts, and their quest for exciting significance within the sport.
Chapter Review
Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors Around the World by Alex Channon and Christopher R. Matthews
“I’m Not the Type of Person Who Does Yoga”: Women, “Hard” Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance; an UK professional athletes interview study conducted by Mark Mierzwinski and Catherine Phipps from 2014-2015. This text is an expanded study regarding women’s increased participation in “Hard” (Muay Thai and MMA) martial arts, and their quest for exciting significance within the sport.
| I'm Not the Type of Person Who Does Yoga: Women, Hard Martial Arts and the Quest for Exciting Significance |
Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion and Transformation in Women's Self-defense Training
Chapter Review
Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors Around the World by Alex Channon and Christopher R. Matthews
Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion and Transformation in Women’s Self-defense Training; a study conducted by Jocelyn A. Hollander at a state university in the Pacific Northwest of the United States through the Women’s and Gender Studies Program from 2013-2014. This study focused on the emotional transformation of the women who completed an empowerment-based self-defense course.
Chapter Review
Global Perspectives on Women in Combat Sports: Women Warriors Around the World by Alex Channon and Christopher R. Matthews
Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion and Transformation in Women’s Self-defense Training; a study conducted by Jocelyn A. Hollander at a state university in the Pacific Northwest of the United States through the Women’s and Gender Studies Program from 2013-2014. This study focused on the emotional transformation of the women who completed an empowerment-based self-defense course.
| Outlaw Emotions: Gender, Emotion and Transformation in Women's Self-defense Training |
Art as Idea as Idea & Body Art
Chapter Review
American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries by Erika Doss
Erika Doss expands upon contemporary art (specifically conceptual art and body art) from the 1960s and 1970s. Doss utilizes prolific artists of the time to develop a dialogue between the meaning of artistic concepts and movements within contemporary art of the 1960s and 1970s.
Chapter Review
American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries by Erika Doss
Erika Doss expands upon contemporary art (specifically conceptual art and body art) from the 1960s and 1970s. Doss utilizes prolific artists of the time to develop a dialogue between the meaning of artistic concepts and movements within contemporary art of the 1960s and 1970s.
| Art as Idea as Idea & Body Art |
Situation
Book Review
Situation by Claire Doherty
This anthology explores the historical and genealogical growth of site-specific art, its transitions through a curatorial lens and its expansion in definition and process through contemporary practices.nThe collection of essays, articles, and artist interviews break down the study of critical spatial practice into five categories for further exploration; limits of space; fieldwork, action and public site; place and locality and curatorial imperative.
| Situation |
Participation
Book Review
Participation by Claire Bishop
The social dimension in participation based art practices lies on a spectrum. Ranging from carefully choreographed artist/viewer interactions, to the everyday social experiences as artistic expression. Bishop explores the historical and theoretical context of participatory art practices starting in the 1960s and moving to contemporary times, (2006 and then readapted in 2010), that invest in the removal of rehearsed experiences and move toward an intangible experience created by social integration.
Book Review
Participation by Claire Bishop
The social dimension in participation based art practices lies on a spectrum. Ranging from carefully choreographed artist/viewer interactions, to the everyday social experiences as artistic expression. Bishop explores the historical and theoretical context of participatory art practices starting in the 1960s and moving to contemporary times, (2006 and then readapted in 2010), that invest in the removal of rehearsed experiences and move toward an intangible experience created by social integration.
| Participation |
A Life Without Limits
Book Review
A Life Without Limits by Chrissie Wellington
An accidental athlete, Chrissie Wellington stumbled upon the sport of Triathlon and later the Ironman through open mindedness and a willingness to try anything new. Sport was her salvation and she never looked back. She later on used this platform to advocate for causes and issues she felt passionate towards.
Book Review
A Life Without Limits by Chrissie Wellington
An accidental athlete, Chrissie Wellington stumbled upon the sport of Triathlon and later the Ironman through open mindedness and a willingness to try anything new. Sport was her salvation and she never looked back. She later on used this platform to advocate for causes and issues she felt passionate towards.
| A Life Without Limits |
Do: The Martial Arts Way
4th Dan Thesis
This essay explores the understanding, philosophies, and knowledge embodied within the martial arts.
4th Dan Thesis
This essay explores the understanding, philosophies, and knowledge embodied within the martial arts.
| Do: The Martial Arts Way.docx.pdf |