Paradise Fallen Xenoepistemics: Stopgap Notes on Site-Specificity

Abstract

Paradise Fallen, Xenoepistemics: Stopgap Notes on Site-Specificity, is a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Art that critically engages with the concept of site-specificity through an extended period of practice-based research. Overall, the work is an interrogation of the multiple sites that inform the PhD, as the PhD is itself interrogated as a site of knowledge production. As a form of practice-based postgraduate research, the work consists of a creative component, which includes numerous iterations of performative practice. These installations and exhibitions are accumulated as documentation that is written into, and edited alongside, more fragmentary notes and speculations. There are passages of more conventional scholarship that are included, which are collected from published and unpublished writing across the period of doctoral study. The links to the practical work can be found within the PDF.