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Feminism Beyond Hysteria:Reading Feminine Ethics - Kristine Klement

Second wave feminism offered women another sort of cure, a new ideology by which to explain their experiences and their suffering, another way of expressing “the problem that has no name.” But so far feminists have not been able to displace the phallic signifier, reliant as we are on the social meanings of sex, gender and sexuality which it structures. Feminist thinkers have often taken either the masculine position, relying on a messianic fantasy of phallic power to come, or the hysteric’s position, blaming others for what they lack. However, what feminism needs to contend with is that the question What does a woman want? has no universal answer because the Woman does not exist. Without a signifier for woman’s desire, each woman is alone to produce her own signifier for herself. She can take the route of the hysteric by looking for an external limit, or she can take this responsibility on herself. Which is why Copjec claims that the ethical act is feminine, because to act ethically

Little couples in my sketchbook - 2

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Cockroaches and lace mourning self-portrait

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- Cockroaches are among the hardiest insects on the planet. It is popularly suggested that cockroaches will "inherit the earth" if humanity destroys itself in a nuclear war. - In French, cockroache is "cafard" and is used in expressions meaning to feel low, down, to have the blues.

"The New Realism: Pompeii’s Living Dead" By Eugene Dwyer

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Brogi 5579. Victim No. 7, in museum case. From the author’s own collection. "Plaster casts of the Pompeian victims, first made by Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863, have become world famous through post cards, documentary films, and now traveling exhibitions. Direct exposure to the casts, whether one experiences them in Pompeii or in a museum setting, can be very moving or it can be unaffecting, depending upon the circumstances and expectations brought to the experience by the visitor. To stumble upon a cast unexpectedly in a dimly lighted vault can be a memorable experience. Fiorelli’s own initial discovery of victims, made by freeing his newly made plasters of the surrounding earth, came as such a shock that he claimed to have “stolen from death” the bodies that had been concealed for more than eighteen hundred years. In fact, Fiorelli’s process made it possible to see the faces and the helpless gestures of the victims at the very moment they were overcome by the volca

Allan McCollum - The Shapes Project

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7056 Monoprints from The Shapes Project, 2005/05. Framed digital prints, each unique, signed, and numbered. 4.25 x 5.5 inches each, on acid-free bond paper. Installation: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, 2006. In 2005, the artist designed The Shapes Project, a combinatorial system to produce "a completely unique shape for every person on the planet, without repeating."[The system involves organizing a basic vocabulary of 300 "parts" which can be combined in over 30 billion different ways, created as "vector files" in a computer drawing program. McCollum has used the system in collaborations with a community library, schoolchildren, home craftworkers, writers, architects, and other artists, as the Shapes are created to be used for many different kinds of projects, and so far have been produced in the form of both prints and sculpture, in Plexiglas, Corian, plywood, hardwoods, metals, rubber, and fabric, in a variety of sizes. In 2010, he published

Little couples in my sketchbook

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2004 - self-portraits - green clay and make-up - studio trials - Staffordshire university

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2004 - self-portraits - building a protection - studio trials - Staffordshire university

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2004 - self-portraits with clay - studio trials - Staffordshire university

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While working at the "mourning" self-portraits and the trials for mask-making, I remembered these images, from university research, about 6 years ago ... It is very strange to be exploring a similar practice again, as I am going through the same kind of emotional states ... The idea of protecting-repulsing was already there but I choose these portraits here for the sadness in the sight.

"What do you love ?" - travelling kit preparations

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The interactive ever growing mobile was made to travel around the world. Over the Christmas holidays, I worked at a dismantable table that will go inside the mobile for people to write their answers. I have also started to look for suitcases to transport the whole thing as well as the translation booklets.... To see more about "What do you love ?", click here . (for better understanding, scroll down and start form the 1st post)

mask making - ideas

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one idea ... The masking-making process I am choosing will include making a plaster 3D reproduction of my face, which I could use indefinitely to produce whatever masks I want. I am thinking of exploring making masks with very basic and unusual materials and use them in self-portraiture or "fashion-style" photographs ...

Mask (trial)

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Mourning - cockroaches (trial)

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Mourning - lace 2 (trial)

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Mourning - lace (trial)

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Cayetano Ferrer .... (ideas for my personal dream show - part two)

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How better than that can you show the artificiality of a gallery space ? (my remark)  2006 EXTRAMUNDANE - 2008 Cayetano Ferrer

Ann Hamilton - Pinhole photos

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Ann Hamilton's pinhole camera portraits, taken using a tiny camera in her mouth. "So I devised, over a number of years (it was sort of something that was in the background for a long time) a way of making pinhole cameras, which is very simple, but to make my mouth the aperture . I don't go into the darkroom and load the film in my mouth and then come out and do it, so it is actually still an object that's inserted into my mouth - but to have the orifice of the place where speech exits the body actually become the eye, and to just play with that. Then it was in the process of actually taking those pictures, seeing what they looked like, seeing in fact how the shape of the mouth is very much the same shape as the eye, and seeing myself become almost like the pupil within. The image of my head becomes almost like the pupil in the middle of the mouth, which is eye-shaped." Ann Hamilton Interview about Pinhole Photos

Samuel Beckett - Not I - 1972

I had forgotten I had watched this piece before...

scanning mouths trials

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Feelings series

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