Research-theoretical-text

M4140 Graduation Thesis

Name : Chan Kwun Yee, arfee (ID : 50692653)

Project title : “Body-landscape”

Advisor : Prof. Linda Lai

Research-theoretical-text

Structure of the text

- 1 sentence brief about the project

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History is assumed to be based on facts and in the form of a coherent story. But I want to argue that facts and fiction are not always separable, and history is full of contradictions. In my project, I use maps, a spatial form, to XXX the concept of chronological history.

my start point :

Curious and concern about how to deal with (research, study, analyze and represent) human experience(history?), in a spaital form (2D)

History

- fabrication of history, experimental history, post-modern history writing

- history as narratives, ambiguity and open-ness of history

- ethnography

- chronology, time based

a spatial form (2D)

- mapping, cartography, geography

my intention

- subversions of grand narratives (mapping those were not considered to be mapped):

- (in 1^st version) research on “stories” which are not considered as “historical records”,

- (in 2^nd version) maps based on personal experience,

- (in 2^nd version) intend to map areas being ignored,

- (in 3^rd version) personal bodily experience as landscape to be mapped. (maps tend to show something more “permenant”, “general”, “shared/public places”)

- binary positions breaking

- personal – public

- stories, fabrications – history, truth

- flourish – permenant

- micro – macro

- subjective – objective

- metaphor : body ~ landscape

- d

Combining history and geography

Mapping as a method to intervene a place/ history

(seems better to use “mapping” than “cartography”)

(what word is more appropriate than “history”?)

mapping as ethnography

Map as a narrative form

- sequential images : 拓背圖

- multi-focus in one single image : 子宮們的曼陀羅