Dr. RyyA. Bread (aka Dr. Ryya Sanders)
School
University of Plymouth
Year
2001
Keywords
Thesis Title
Psychical Corporeal Performances of Subjective Specific Auto[erotic]-representations
Abstract
This PhD explores how individual embodied experience can function as a legitimate mode of theory-making by combining written scholarship with artistic practice. Through a dissertation, exhibition, and live performance, it argues for a rethinking of subjectivity beyond language alone, challenging traditional psychoanalytic and academic models by foregrounding embodiment, sexual difference, and auto-representational artistic practices as sites of knowledge production.
Bio
Ryya Bread is an American-born artist and curator who has lived in West Cornwall for almost 20 years. She received her first art training in the US, but completed her PhD in Fine Art at the Falmouth College of Art. While a student she did some voluntary and commissioned work for the Hypatia Trust, and followed this up by assisting the initial team at work on the formation and cataloguing of the West Cornwall Art Archive (WCAA). After running her own gallery together with the artist, Baz MEHEW in Bread Street, Penzance, for some years she was employed as an assistant curator for the Lemon Street Gallery, Truro.
