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Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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TY - BOOK
T1 - 100 Rooms- Painting as a Means of Phenomenological Investigation of Being-there
AU - Chang, Yun-Chu
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - I use oil painting portraits as a method to explore how we understand ourselves and others in our daily life through the theories of Heidegger and Taoism. Fifty-five students from twenty countries at Lancaster University were involved in this study which took an anthropological ethnographic fieldwork approach. I went into their rooms and met face- to-face to record their life stories and create portraits. Through my research, I found that this in-person art-making process can generate powerful emotional connections beyond words, eliminate stereotypes and racial discrimination. This artistic process is an “in-between” that can connect technology and humanity. The awareness of this “in-between” combined with the method of art-making provides not only a theoretical visualisation, but a powerful tool for ongoing investigation of racial, class and cultural diversity.
AB - I use oil painting portraits as a method to explore how we understand ourselves and others in our daily life through the theories of Heidegger and Taoism. Fifty-five students from twenty countries at Lancaster University were involved in this study which took an anthropological ethnographic fieldwork approach. I went into their rooms and met face- to-face to record their life stories and create portraits. Through my research, I found that this in-person art-making process can generate powerful emotional connections beyond words, eliminate stereotypes and racial discrimination. This artistic process is an “in-between” that can connect technology and humanity. The awareness of this “in-between” combined with the method of art-making provides not only a theoretical visualisation, but a powerful tool for ongoing investigation of racial, class and cultural diversity.
KW - Heidegger
KW - Taoism
KW - Phenomenology
KW - Oil painting portraiture
KW - Ethnography
KW - in-between
U2 - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/2152
DO - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/2152
M3 - Doctoral Thesis
PB - Lancaster University
ER -