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application/pdf en text Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01 The student, Savannah Wills, accepted the attached license on 2024-12-08 at 17:08. The student, Savannah Wills, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2024-12-08 at 17:13. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2024-12-13 at 08:29. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21543 on 2025-03-28 at 14:44:58 The reparative potential of performance: Exploring the work of Aliza Shvarts as negotiations of harm and healing Wills, Savannah 2024-12-13 Weissman , Terri Performance Repair eng What do the theories and practices of reparation offer that justice cannot, and how can artistic practice, especially performance, help to cultivate a kind of radical care that survival amidst multiple systems of oppression require? This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse within art history about the intersection of reparation and artistic practice through an analysis of Aliza Shvarts’s work, which emerges in its fullness as a series of works that should be seen as reiterations and renegotiations—that is, as parts of a dialogue rather than individual statements. Moreover, it is in this communicative aspect, I contend, where we begin to see how performance art can address harm caused by structural violences, specifically gender-based violence. 2024-12 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127408 Copyright 2024 Savannah Wills Art & Design Art History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A. Thesis