Liminal Sites: materialising an everyday

• Main Author: Davy, Viv (Author)
• Other Authors: Jansen, Monique (Contributor), Fitchet, Dale (Contributor)
• Format: Others
• Published: Auckland University of Technology, 2016-05-02T01:50:35Z.
• Subjects: Liminal; Everyday; Domestic; Spheres; Time-based practice; Daily practice; Text-based practice; Durational; Personal sphere; Public sphere; Textile based practices; Handmade diaries; Weaving; Installation; Diaries; Materialising liminality; Exegesis
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 This visual art research practice examined the daily actions undertaken in a personal domestic everyday with a view to understanding its cultural significance. Across a period of 549 days intentional, mindful observation, and reflective record making were undertaken. Through the chronological accretion of minutiae and the trace of what is normally unseen or invisible, the patterns of time in the everyday were investigated and evaluated as value markers. The role of reinterpretive preservation or meaning maintenance to create, support and reflect individual identity and social position were examined and chronicled. To further explore the materialisation of this everyday as sites of understanding, differing durational practices using coding, diaristic recording, and textile-based media and processes were employed in the creation of symbolic representations. The domestic everyday was revealed as a site of active choice, liminal transferral processes and the flow of essences amongst the three different spheres, the personal, the domestic and the public.