Practice as Research
Here are a series of research questions that i will be exploring through my arts practice:
What does it mean to be an artist and a woman?
How is a woman able to articulate herself when living within a patriarchal language/value system?
I will be exploring these research questions in the context of:
Julia Kristeva - abstract, deconstructing language, creating subversion
Literature
Sylvia Plath
Caitlin Thomas
Angela Carter
Confessional female artists
Bobby Baker
Tracy Emin
Karen Finlay
Rachel Rosenthal
Theatre
Jacques Lecoq - Complicite
Grotesque
Sammuel Beckett
Paper Birds- Verbatim Theatre-women's stories
French and Saunders
Electra
Sociology
Grief and loss
My methodology is this:
The homemade
The accessible
Talking to other women
Reading lots of books, seek out other women's stories
To be politically minded
To Speak out
To write
To go and see lots of Art and Theatre
What does it mean to be an artist and a woman?
What does it mean to be an artist and a mother?
What does it mean to be a daughter and a mother? How does this dynamic work?How is a woman able to articulate herself when living within a patriarchal language/value system?
Why and how does society demonise women, particularly mothers?
Is the personal political?
I will be exploring these research questions in the context of:
Feminist Theory
Helene cixous - Writing the body, reclaiming it from its patriarchal textulisation.
Luce Irigaray - Masks, to play with and ironically overstate the objectification of women in order to subvert stereotypes.Julia Kristeva - abstract, deconstructing language, creating subversion
Autobiography - Artists and Mothers; Why did they put their heads in the oven?
Female mental health
Virginia WoolfSylvia Plath
Caitlin Thomas
Angela Carter
Margaret Atwood
Doris LessingJeanette Winterson
Confessional female artists
Bobby Baker
Tracy Emin
Karen Finlay
Rachel Rosenthal
Theatre
Jacques Lecoq - Complicite
Grotesque
Sammuel Beckett
Paper Birds- Verbatim Theatre-women's stories
French and Saunders
Electra
Sociology
Grief and loss
My methodology is this:
The homemade
The accessible
Talking to other women
Reading lots of books, seek out other women's stories
To be politically minded
To Speak out
To write
To go and see lots of Art and Theatre
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| I FUCKING HATE CHEESE SAUCE photo by Andrew Brown |
Values
To empower my children
To be a good mother
To be a good daughter
To be a good wife
To be able to express and articulate myself creatively in amongst the above
To have fun doing it.
One of my friends told me that when he and his siblings were too naughty as children and his mother got stressed and upset she would threaten to “put her head in the oven”. Sometimes he was really apprehensive on his way home from school in case his mother had carried out her threat.
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