Annamariah Knox2024-02-152024-02-152023https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113810Annamariah Knox presents her MFA Thesis Exhibition, Back Space, at the Olive Tjaden Experimental Gallery in Ithaca, New York. The body of work explores the relationship between perception of the corporeal body, forces that shape that perception, and the moving body as a site of extra-linguistic communication and meaning. Theatrical performance, dance, and staging are investigated through an immersive, mixed-media kaleidoscope of moving figures projected onto sculptural textile installations. The work centers modes of kinetic expression and improvisational movement, moments of chance and surprise, and the dynamic engagements of opposing pairs light and dark, revelation and obscurity, and corporeal and perceived experiences, to illuminate the life of the back space: that unseen and vulnerable column directly behind the body.Attribution 4.0 Internationalart sculpture installation textile performance videodissertation or thesis