Melpomene & The Trinity of Mourning: Surf & Surrender

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dc.contributor.advisorO'Dell, Kathy
dc.contributor.authorMichaels, Leah Clare
dc.contributor.departmentVisual Arts
dc.contributor.programImaging and Digital Arts
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-29T18:12:21Z
dc.date.available2021-01-29T18:12:21Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-01
dc.description.abstractAs an artist, historian, feminist, social Catholic, and lover of the ocean, I pursue feminist mystical storytelling practices and traditions as a form of social justice. In my theses exhibition, I seek to subvert traumatic patriarchal narratives by connecting the rape of the ocean in ecology to violence against women. I invoke Melpomene, Greek muse of sorrow and tragedy, as a symbolic presence, while I appear in the projected video as a surfer and priestess. In these roles, I perform last-rite rituals for the ocean, accompanying the sea as "she” is dying. As viewers move through and around the video installation, which serves as a contemporary altarpiece, they create metaphoric currents, acting as bodies of water, while bearing witness to the rituals and mourning the ocean’s impending passing.
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dc.genretheses
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2vyig-jn3h
dc.identifier.other12024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/20692
dc.languageen
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.subjectart
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectfilm
dc.subjectinstallation art
dc.subjectperformance art
dc.subjectsurfing
dc.titleMelpomene & The Trinity of Mourning: Surf & Surrender
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