AMBIVALAND
Cultural Ambivalence in Newfoundland
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. project at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, in progress
The project revalues the often despised concept of ambivalence and establishes its cultural variant as a productive research lens. Applying that lens to settler Newfoundland, the understanding and perception of the place are enhanced through the reinterpretation of allegedly isolated contexts bearing cultural and social tensions as belonging to a pervasive and potentially creative web of cultural ambivalence.
Research Statement (as of January 2023)
Related works and activities:
Visuals
Creative Ambivalence, series of digital montages, 2019
[Newfound] Land, series of digital montages, 2020/21
colonizeR/D, series of digital prints and projections, 2022
Conference presentation
Creative Ambivalence: Abstract, Slides
Regarding Uncertainty Graduate Conference, Concordia University, May 2019
The project is supported and spurred by my supervisory team, Dr. Jennifer Dyer (Arts and Humanities, Cultural Studies), Dr. Stephen Crocker (Sociology, Media Studies, Globalization), and Dr. Valerie Legge (Literary Studies, Critical Theory), as well as by scholars from the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, Philosophy, and Settler Colonial Studies at Memorial University and beyond.
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