Washing Rice
Date of Award
June 2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Department
Art
Advisor(s)
Joanna Spitzner
Abstract
I want to eliminate my identity. Donna Haraway says, “a cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creation of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” Rosi Braidotti mentions, “as a hybrid, or body machine, the Cyborg, or the companion species, is a connection-making entity; a figure of interrelational receptivity and global communication that deliberately blurs categorical distinctions (human/machine; nature/culture; male/female; oedipal/non-oedipal).” Braidotti and Haraway use cyborgs as a metaphor for fusing reality and fiction, or society and the individual. It involves the transposition of one being into another, blurring the notion of dualism. Their concept inspired me to “clean” my identity through my artwork by looking for it and then removing it. I focus on researching my political identity.
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Recommended Citation
Lee, Jo Yu, "Washing Rice" (2018). Theses - ALL. 253.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/253
