Material Information |
| Title: |
The Administrative State |
| Physical Description: |
Book |
| Language: |
English |
| Creator: |
Yates, Calder |
| Publisher: |
New College of Florida |
| Place of Publication: |
Sarasota, Fla. |
| Creation Date: |
2007 |
| Publication Date: |
2007 |
Subjects |
| Subjects / Keywords: |
Art
Visual Art
Drawing
Installation
Art History
Institutional Critique |
| Genre: |
bibliography ( marcgt )
theses ( marcgt )
government publication (state, provincial, terriorial, dependent) ( marcgt )
born-digital ( sobekcm )
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Notes |
| Abstract: |
One of the many motivations in creating these drawings, photographs, and installations was working at Whole Foods a year ago. I'm not sure if I enjoyed working there. I had never been so intimately involved in an organization that tried so hard to "normalize" an employee's behavior. But through my own academic study of public and private administration I realized that Whole Foods' hierarchical structure was nothing to jump up and down about. My particular experience there fed into a broader interest of mine: my own personal interactions and unwanted reliance upon massive, impersonal, and unnoticed bureaucracies, how institutions structure our behavior, and how these hierarchies underwrite pathological conformity or nonconformity within its members. I'm interested in using organizations to get things done, using organizations to achieve goals beyond the reach of the individual and, reciprocally, organizations' effects upon the individual. Born into an invisible condition of hierarchy and conditioned to unseen chains of command, individuals and groups are invested with notions of what is normal, acceptable, and correct. After realizing this interest I've become attached to the idea of making objects and installations that disrupt the normal day-to-day activities that create and enact these implicit hierarchies. |
| Statement of Responsibility: |
by Calder Yates |
| Thesis: |
Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2007 |
| Supplements: |
Accompanying materials: Includes a CD of Images. |
| Electronic Access: |
RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of Description: |
This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. |
| Local: |
Faculty Sponsor: Freedland, Barry |
Record Information |
| Source Institution: |
New College of Florida |
| Holding Location: |
New College of Florida |
| Rights Management: |
Applicable rights reserved. |
| Classification: |
local - S.T. 2007 Y3 |
| System ID: |
NCFE003872:00001 |
|
Material Information |
| Title: |
The Administrative State |
| Physical Description: |
Book |
| Language: |
English |
| Creator: |
Yates, Calder |
| Publisher: |
New College of Florida |
| Place of Publication: |
Sarasota, Fla. |
| Creation Date: |
2007 |
| Publication Date: |
2007 |
Subjects |
| Subjects / Keywords: |
Art
Visual Art
Drawing
Installation
Art History
Institutional Critique |
| Genre: |
bibliography ( marcgt )
theses ( marcgt )
government publication (state, provincial, terriorial, dependent) ( marcgt )
born-digital ( sobekcm )
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
Notes |
| Abstract: |
One of the many motivations in creating these drawings, photographs, and installations was working at Whole Foods a year ago. I'm not sure if I enjoyed working there. I had never been so intimately involved in an organization that tried so hard to "normalize" an employee's behavior. But through my own academic study of public and private administration I realized that Whole Foods' hierarchical structure was nothing to jump up and down about. My particular experience there fed into a broader interest of mine: my own personal interactions and unwanted reliance upon massive, impersonal, and unnoticed bureaucracies, how institutions structure our behavior, and how these hierarchies underwrite pathological conformity or nonconformity within its members. I'm interested in using organizations to get things done, using organizations to achieve goals beyond the reach of the individual and, reciprocally, organizations' effects upon the individual. Born into an invisible condition of hierarchy and conditioned to unseen chains of command, individuals and groups are invested with notions of what is normal, acceptable, and correct. After realizing this interest I've become attached to the idea of making objects and installations that disrupt the normal day-to-day activities that create and enact these implicit hierarchies. |
| Statement of Responsibility: |
by Calder Yates |
| Thesis: |
Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2007 |
| Supplements: |
Accompanying materials: Includes a CD of Images. |
| Electronic Access: |
RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of Description: |
This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. |
| Local: |
Faculty Sponsor: Freedland, Barry |
Record Information |
| Source Institution: |
New College of Florida |
| Holding Location: |
New College of Florida |
| Rights Management: |
Applicable rights reserved. |
| Classification: |
local - S.T. 2007 Y3 |
| System ID: |
NCFE003872:00001 |
|