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EVERYTHING, NOTHING, SOMETHING, ALWAYS (WALLA!)
By
Emily Mast
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Emily Mast
Object Description
| Title | Everything, nothing, something, always (walla!) |
| Author | Mast, Emily |
| Author email | emilymast@yahoo.com; emast@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Fine Arts |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-03-05 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-08-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Zittel, Andrea |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lockhart, Sharon Tumlir, Jan Forti, Simone Ebner, Shannon |
| Abstract | “Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!)” is a performance-based installation that is comprised of a one-act theater piece repeated nine times over a three hour period. Each of its nine iterations varies slightly as a necessary result of its serial repetition. The document for which this abstract serves to synopsize and explain, otherwise known as my thesis, is comprised of the written script for the performance and is titled “Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!).” It should be considered a separate work, or an augmented index of the performance, as the entirety of the performed text has been semi-obliterated by a double strikethrough and subordinated by the addition of dozens of footnotes. This intentional obfuscation points to the central concerns of the two works: a distinct distrust of both certainty and the ideal of truth; the imprecision of language by means of the myriad ways it can be delivered and understood; and the ways in which the polyphonous references that influence a work become the primary terrain for an articulation of confusion as not only an essential condition for artistic production but also its subject. |
| Keyword | everything; nothing; something; always; walla |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2494 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Mast, Emily |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-mast-2892 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-mast-2892.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | EVERYTHING, NOTHING, SOMETHING, ALWAYS (WALLA!) By Emily Mast A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF FINE ARTS August 2009 Copyright 2009 Emily Mast |
