Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity

This research project investigates highly individuated preparatory activity, or prepping, through a practice-led research methodology which is articulated through three frameworks identified from commonalities found in prepping’s often highly disparate activities. These frameworks, narrative, adapta...

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Main Author: Day, Jessica Aileen
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92345
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description This research project investigates highly individuated preparatory activity, or prepping, through a practice-led research methodology which is articulated through three frameworks identified from commonalities found in prepping’s often highly disparate activities. These frameworks, narrative, adaptable objects, and preservation, aid in sculpturally articulating an often-overlooked aspect of the prepping spectrum. Namely, those attempting to secure already precarious lives in a world of constantly unfolding and speculative crises.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-923452023-06-08T07:57:04Z Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity Day, Jessica Aileen This research project investigates highly individuated preparatory activity, or prepping, through a practice-led research methodology which is articulated through three frameworks identified from commonalities found in prepping’s often highly disparate activities. These frameworks, narrative, adaptable objects, and preservation, aid in sculpturally articulating an often-overlooked aspect of the prepping spectrum. Namely, those attempting to secure already precarious lives in a world of constantly unfolding and speculative crises. 2022 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92345 Curtin University fulltext
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Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity
title Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity
title_full Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity
title_fullStr Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity
title_full_unstemmed Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity
title_short Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity
title_sort hoping for the best, preparing for the worst: prepping, sculptural practice and the everyday crisis of insecurity
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92345