Trace.

Judaica;feminist art;Jewish art;identity politics;feminism

KCJ Szwedzinski

University:University of Louisville

Department:Fine Arts

关键词: Judaica;    feminist art;    Jewish art;    identity politics;    feminism;   

Others  :  https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4419&context=etd

美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

Trace utilizes autoethnography to investigate aspects of Judaism to discover how one decides what to embrace, embody, or deny from inherited legacies. Autoethnography attempts to combine quantitative and qualitative data in order to systematically analyze and describe personal experience. The artist acting as Ba’alei Kushiah, or question bearer, uses Talmudic philosophy as a methodology and approach to art making. This research is self-referential; using Jewish thought to ask questions about Judaism. Judaism, often existing in an in between place with outward characteristics that reflect regional influences, facilitates a dialogue about whether there are relative or absolute delineations within and between categories such as religion, culture, ethnicity, and nationality. The work calls into question whether there are hard and fast boundaries to our belief and classification systems. It asks what happens when beliefs and traditions are examined; if it is things taught or lived experience that shape a person more.