... so semester 2 begins and my brain is still reeling from the residency. I have been repeatedly asking myself, "what are my intentions... what is my intent as an artist?" I keep coming back to this exploration of identity aesthetics or rather the pleasure in gaining understanding about one's identity.
It is my intention to question the assumed unconscious actions of our minds and bodies. To question the inner workings of ambivalence within these actions in order to gain pleasure. I am looking at imagery relating to these questions... seeking a range of gestures from ostentatious to demure. How these specific areas of identity relate to one another and particular actions/rituals interests me. They represent a visual language and aesthetic which cannot be communicated by any other means.
My visual culture project [research work] for the semester is based on: Laura Mulvey's, Visual Pleasure; Freud's essays on sexuality and instincts and their vicissitudes; Luce Irigaray's book, The Sex which is not one; Katja Silverman's, Threshold of the Visible World; the film work of Valie Export; and the film work of Martha Rosler. I am also supposed to watch some Hitchcock films and visit the Video Data Bank in Chicago. In conjunction with this research I am revisiting the work of printmakers such as Goya, Kollwitz, Daumier, Whistler, and Lautrec because their imagery speaks to the nature of identity through gesture.
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