{"id":3592,"date":"2023-05-16T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/?page_id=3592"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:13:20","slug":"baptism-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/semifinalists-2023\/baptism-by-fire","title":{"rendered":"Baptism By Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Semi-finalist 2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Submitted by:<\/td>Tamara Deedman<\/td><\/tr>
Department:<\/td>Art and Design<\/td><\/tr>
Faculty:<\/td>Arts<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My research is situated in the processing and transforming of my family archives \u2013 simultaneously treasured collections and hoarded trash \u2013 to wrestle with the phenomenon of object attachment as a survival mechanism. Through an autoethnographic lens, I am exploring notions of human attachment to objects that hold both physical and emotional space, and how these occupy memory, identity, and grief. On a much more personal level, through my parent’s separate archives, I question what objects can tell us about coping with embodied trauma. In “Baptism by Fire”, I position myself in conversation with what is remaining of my mother’s belongings to explore how one \u201crecognizes the embedded vulnerabilities of memory, inhibition, human existence, the precariousness of home, and the politics of belonging\u201d through inherited objects. As I navigate my father\u2019s absence and the surplus of his objects, as well as the recent loss of my mother’s home, I explore how these polarizing archives: one of abundance, and one that could fit in a single grocery bag materialize relationships within domestic spaces. More importantly, I consider how they mark endurance, trauma, and coping mechanisms; every collected item is a signifier and a reminder of generational resilience, addiction, and substance abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Semi-finalist 2023 Submitted by: Tamara Deedman Department: Art and Design Faculty: Arts My research is situated in the processing and transforming of my family archives \u2013 simultaneously treasured collections and hoarded trash \u2013 to wrestle with the phenomenon of object attachment as a survival mechanism. Through an autoethnographic lens, I am exploring notions of human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3690,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3592","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3592\/revisions\/3732"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ior-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}