Below is a list of areas that I am researching into.  This page is a living document and as time passes will branch out into related pages.  For a chronological look at my research, check out my blog.

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Dimensions of Self:  Mental, Material and Relational    

The Mind and the Body

• Embodiment and corporeality

Relationality:  Self and the function of the art object

• Intersubjectivity:  Reality as constructed between people, and the experiences that result.
• To Relate or to Interact:  distinct methods of in-corporealizing viewers.
• Participation, Posing and Surveillance

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The Ethics of the Individual:

The Ideal

• Prolepsis and the idealization of the individual. 
• The portrait, the naked, and the nude.

Objectivity and Objectification

• Objects
• What art affords as an object.

Subjectivity and Subjectification

• What the art affords a subject.

Medium and post-medium – discipline and post-discipline

• Drawing, painting, and installation.
• Conceptual art
• Relational art

The Pretense of the Individual

• Authorship
• Aura

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Relational objects and Intersubjects.

Beyond the Self

• Relational objects
• Intersubjective spaces:  Getting to know you – Psychotherapy, portraiture and the study of an individual. – Lucien Freud
• Instigating Intimacy in intersubjective spaces.
• Interactivity and Relationality – Olafur Eliasson, Rafael Lozano Hemmer

Public and Private

• Porosity as a means of investigating dualities:  Richard Goodwin’s research into public and private spaces:  architecturally speaking.
• Macrocosms and microcosms:  Society as a loaded metaphor for the individual

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Back to the Individual

The body

• Skin:  boundary of the self?
• The Face:  projecting the self – betraying the self

Beyond the body - Prosthesis

• Technology - Stelarc
• Relationships - Gonzalez-Torres

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