A Land Apart

Yu, Peipei (2022) A Land Apart. [2D Design, 3D Design, Craft, Exhibition/show, Textiles]

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Creators:
Yu, Peipei
Description/Abstract:

This practice-led research project: 'A Land Apart', is continuing the research: 'Fragile Lines', investigating the conflictive relationship between the natural crustal movement landscape and national boundaries that people created. The project 'A Land Apart' is a rethinking and re-centring of the critical connection between political individuality and global community, and is deliberately implicit rather than explicit and is intended as a hidden element within the work. According to Brown's study, material culture can be "regarded as a methodological branch of cultural history or cultural anthropology and material culture is the objective aspect of cultural research" (1982, p.13). In this project, a textile installation artwork, 'A Land Apart', as the practical research outcome, demonstrates the complex relations between lands, humans and community development. Political borders often only exist as lines on maps, linking to Benedict Anderson's (1983) concept of 'imagined communities in which national borders may be arbitrary, but national identity is formed as a potent socio-political construct. Indeed, these invisible lines have a powerful and sometimes catastrophic effect on peoples' lives through events such as wars, migration and earthquakes. These are local events that have global or transnational repercussions. The work 'A Land Apart' aims to bring these complex situations together as an aesthetic encounter.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Other Contributors:
Wu Xi (Curator)
Date:
1 September 2022
Material:
cotton, yarn
Measurements or Duration:
4000 x 4000 x 3000 mm
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
'From Lausanne to Beijing' 12th International Fiber Art Biennale, Yunnan Provincial Museum, China
1 September 2022
31 October 2022
Additional Information:

'From Lausanne to Beijing' 12th International Fiber Art Biennale organised jointly by Yunnan Provincial Museum, Tsinghua University, and Yunnan Minzu University.

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
textile, fibre art, tapestry, tufting textiles, contemporary tapestry, contemporary art
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Depositing User:
Dr Peipei Yu
Date Deposited:
27 Sep 2022 09:07
Last Modified:
27 Sep 2022 09:19
Art/Design Categories:
2D Design, 3D Design, Craft, Exhibition/show, Textiles
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5829

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