Bristling at windows: Subversion through heterodox mythology

Abstract

This thesis is a narrative of an artistic development, drawing on the intersections of meaninglessness and meaning, as well as strategies to resist capitalist recuperation. The narrative moves from the absurd in art to the society of the spectacle through the philosophies of Albert Camus and Guy Debord, then proceeds to examine the works of Scott Walker, Tetsuya Ishida, Michio Fukuoka and Lawrence Lek to contextualise my practice. I seek to situate my work in the breakdown of language and meaning and aim to construct a mythology to undermine the hegemony of the spectacular.