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Thesis
I, You, We Are the Oracle: Creative Self-expression as Vocal Liberation
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Master of Creative Arts, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2026
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/01024
Abstract
Women change and alter our voices—both physically and metaphorically—depending on the environment, our interactions, and for personal safety, but what is our voice when we are by ourselves? Finding ways to elicit the inner voice has the potential to inspire and enable others to claim their voices and, thereby, enhance creative self-expression. 'I Am, You Are, We Are the Oracle' is a post-structural feminist investigation into the nuanced construction of women's voices in contemporary Western society. This research investigates the construction of metaphorical voice as a socially crafted exchange. The central premise of this research is to create methods to assist women in claiming and honing their voices when engaging in creative practice, by exploring if and how oracle cards may be used as provocations for creative self-expression, specifically theatrical playwriting. The research produced three main outputs: thesis dissertation, oracle deck sample, and a 40-minute playscript. The creative artefacts used practice-led research, using oracle cards as provocations for creative self-expression, to create a theatrical playscript. I employed the research lens of post-structural feminism and intersectionality, coupled with autoethnographic feminine reflective writing (écriture féminine), to investigate the construction of voice through performance and writing. In a society rich with stimuli and laden with literal and digital noise, finding one's voice—that is, one’s sociopolitical position, what one stands for, and one’s capacity to voice personal truths agentically—amongst the noise proves increasingly challenging. Can creative self-expression lead to self-liberation by cutting through the noise in dialogue with oneself?
Details
- Title
- I, You, We Are the Oracle: Creative Self-expression as Vocal Liberation
- Authors
- Bree Glasbergen - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Contributors
- Hannah Joyce Banks (Principal Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Healthy Ageing Research ClusterSarah Casey (Co-Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesSara Hutchinson (Consultant Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Student Services and Engagement
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Master of Creative Arts
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/01024
- Grant note
- Fellowships Fund INC Qld Agnes Whitten Fellow
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991212979202621
- Output Type
- Thesis
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