“Abandon This Palace of Language:” On the Rhetoric of the Body in A Yellow Silence

This dialogue between Katie Marya and David Winter reflects on A Yellow Silence, a collaborative, sonic, intertextual, outdoor art installation based primarily on the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik, which Marya created with architects Hilary Weise and Holly R. Craig. Winter participated in the audio recording of texts for the project. Here, Marya and Winter use feminist theory to construct a conversation around the use of silence in this public art piece, and they explore the nature of their own lives in the process of creating it. A Yellow Silence originally showed on Centennial Mall in Lincoln, Nebraska as a part of the Lincoln PoPs: Global Frequencies public art exposition in the fall of 2019. This dialogue is intentionally formatted without name markers as a way to disrupt normative assumptions about identity and authorship, and to reflect the fluidity that existed as Marya and Winter talked and wrote. This formal choice was based on Haneen Ghabra and Bernadette Marie Calafell’s essay “From failure and allyship to feminist solidarities: negotiating our privileges and oppressions across borders.

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Feminist Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198811589.013.32 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 488-503

Author(s):

Jean Mills

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Political Thought ◽

Life Writing ◽

The Body ◽

Feminist Politics ◽

Feminist Thought ◽

Feminist Discourse ◽

Women's Lives ◽

Feminist Community ◽

Critical Responses

This chapter examines Virginia Woolf’s foundational role in the development of feminist theory, placing her theoretical positions on women’s lives and life-writing, privacy, the body, and self-expression in dialogue with a diverse and actively changing continuum of feminist thought. Focusing on the return of rage to the forefront of feminist discourse and social media’s effect upon feminist politics, the chapter chronicles the changing critical responses to Woolf’s feminisms, in relation to her positions on feminist identities and feminist community. The chapter also investigates the ways in which women of colour feminists disclosed Woolf’s racialized self and racist thinking to assess the place of Woolf’s feminism in contemporary political thought. From issues seeking to reconcile and value difference and diversity with the uses of ambivalence and calls for unity and integration, the chapter places the concepts and vocabulary of feminist theory within the context of Virginia Woolf’s work and example.

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Cuerpo indeterminado: La precariedad del cuerpo en el discurso feminista

Revista de la Academia ◽

10.25074/0196318.0.47 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 47

Author(s):

María Isabel Peña Aguado

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Female Body ◽

The Body ◽

Philosophical Tradition ◽

Font Size ◽

Feminist Discourse ◽

Feminist Movements ◽

Cuerpo Femenino

La teoría feminista heredó de una tradición filosófica hostil la identificación de cuerpo y mujer. Partiendo de esta identificación de mujer y cuerpo es comprensible que un cuestionamiento del concepto ‘mujer’ influya asimismo en el lugar que va a encontrar el cuerpo dentro del movimiento y teoría feministas. Ese lugar será diferente dependiendo de las diversas reivindicaciones que marcan las diferencias entre los distintos feminismos y teorías queer. La pregunta que se plantea es hasta qué punto la precariedad del cuerpo femenino dentro de la misma teoría feminista es consecuencia del cuestionamiento del concepto de mujer o si, por el contrario, no será más bien el rechazo a una realidad corporal concreta lo que ha permitido y ayudado a desarmar los conceptos de ‘mujer’ y ‘mujeres’ hasta el punto de considerarlos como innecesario para el mismo discurso y políticas feministas contemporáneos.Palabras claves: cuerpo, mujeres, feminismo, Teoría Queer Indeterminacy of the body: precariousness of body in the feminist discourseFeminist theory inherited the identification of woman and body from a hostile philosophical tradition. Given this identification, it is understandable that a questioning of the concept ‚woman‘ also influences the place that the body will find in the feminist movements and theories. The question that arises is how far the precariousness of the female body within feminist theory itself is the result of a questioning of the concept of ‘woman’ or whether, on the contrary, it is the rejection of a concrete corporal reality which has enabled and helped to disarm the concepts of ‚woman‘ and ‚women‘ to the point of considering them unnecessary for contemporary feminist discourse and politics. Keywords: body, women, feminism, Queer Theory

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Investing in Spaces: Luxury, Benevolence or Business?

The Journal of Public Space ◽

10.32891/jps.v3i2.1110 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 75-96

Author(s):

Nabila Alibhai ◽

Elizabeth Thys

Keyword(s):

Public Art ◽

Life Experience ◽

Spatial Transformation ◽

Business And Society ◽

Property Development ◽

Art Installation ◽

Violent Extremism ◽

The Government ◽

Physical Spaces ◽

Diversity In The Workplace

This paper highlights the use of spatial transformation to shift the way people experience and engage with community. In essence, physical spaces can make people feel safe, well and like they belong. Moreover, they can infuse purpose into their habitual public and work-life experience. The examples shared include working with the Yale School of Management to help students reflect on and visibly communicate their role as leaders in business and society; the property development company Broder using public art to respectfully build a relationship with a neighborhood they are investing in; YouTube using the process of art creation to celebrate and communicate diversity in the workplace and lastly a public private partnership that brought together the Government, civil society and the private sector to address the erosion of trust and fear as a result of violent extremism in Kenya through a public art installation called Colour in Faith. Nabila Alibhai and her collaborators work to shift culture through investing in the transformation of spaces using art and urban design.

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Emotion Gesture Art

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/leon.2010.43.3.308 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 308-309

Author(s):

Eunjung Han ◽

Chee-Onn Wong ◽

Keechul Jung ◽

Kyung Ho Lee

Keyword(s):

User Modeling ◽

Affective Computing ◽

The Body ◽

Body Posture ◽

Unique Combination ◽

Art Installation ◽

Emotional Feeling ◽

New Type ◽

System Prototype

Emotion gesture art is a new type of user modeling and representation in a form of aesthetic art. It consists of a unique combination of color, sound and animation (shape) that in itself creates the same emotional feeling for spectators. Emotion gesture art takes the body posture expression and remaps the communication of emotions into an aesthetic representation. This paper also presents an emotion gesture art installation (eG-art), a system prototype for affective computing. This installation will allow a smart blend of a system for affective computing with aesthetic art representation.

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SEVEN The Representation of the Body in the Poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik

10.7560/725010-009 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 94-117

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Alejandra Pizarnik

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The Politics of the Veil in Medieval Christianity

Sociology of Islam ◽

10.1163/22131418-00704004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 245-262

Author(s):

Karl Shuve

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Conceptual Understanding ◽

The Body ◽

Liberal Politics ◽

Religious Difference ◽

Cultural Specificity ◽

Saba Mahmood ◽

Feminist Historiography ◽

The Veil ◽

Medieval Christianity

Saba Mahmood begins Politics of Piety with a question: ‘[H]ow should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and the politics of any feminist project?’ She notes that while many forms of ‘difference’ have been integrated within feminist theory, ‘religious difference’ has received comparatively little emphasis. She attributes this to the ‘vexing relationship between feminism and religion,’ arising from feminism’s firm situation within ‘secular-liberal politics.’ In this essay, I explore how Mahmood’s insights might enrich the study of premodern Christianity. My particular focus will be a central, yet highly contested, aspect of medieval women’s piety: the practice of nuns taking the veil during consecration, marking them as ‘brides of Christ’. I hope, with Mahmood, to consider how an analysis of ‘the particular form that the body takes might transform our conceptual understanding of the act itself’, offering new possibilities for the practice of feminist historiography.

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A Ruse for the Real

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190676124.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Friedlander

Keyword(s):

Public Art ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Reality Tv ◽

The Real ◽

Public Square ◽

Art Installation ◽

Big Brother ◽

Tv Show

This chapter analyzes “Bitte liebt Österreich” (“Please Love Austria”), the controversial public art installation created by the late German conceptual artist and provocateur Christoph Schlingensief. Schlingensief staged a variation on the reality TV show Big Brother, in which asylum seekers were housed in a structure in a public square in Vienna, Austria. Passersby were invited to cast their vote each night for which detainee should be evicted the following day. By staging his intervention as a “game” that borrowed from the familiar “reality TV” genre, Schlingensief invites us to consider the question of whether using a fictional, game-like mode of representation to describe a politically reactionary event may help to subvert it. He thus offers an important twist to the logic which undergirds the position that realistic depictions of revolutionary events can themselves be politically potent.

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Butler's Sophisticated Constructivism: A Critical Assessment

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/j.1527-2001.1999.tb01050.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 17-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Veronica Vasterling

Keyword(s):

Feminist Theory ◽

Judith Butler ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

The Body

This paper aims to investigate whether and in what respects the conceptions of the body and of agency that Judith Butler develops in Bodies That Matter are useful contributions to feminist theory. The discussion focuses on the clarification and critical assessment of the arguments Butler presents to refute the charges of linguistic monism and determinism.

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Postmodern feminism and disability: Toward multiple identities of „disabled“ bodies

Sociologija ◽

10.2298/soc1801112m ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 112-126

Author(s):

Luka Mijatovic ◽

Mirko Filipovic

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Social Construction ◽

Feminist Theory ◽

Judith Butler ◽

Multiple Identities ◽

Point Of View ◽

The Body ◽

Postmodern Feminism ◽

Construction Products ◽

Gender Theories

From the postmodern theorists point of view, disabled bodies primarily are objects of performing the power, in several ways: from ?staring? as the act of labeling, to medicalization, rehabilitation and ?normalization?. Feminist theory of disability tends to combine gender and disability and to perceive them together as social construction products which ?deviate from standards?. In postmodern theories of gender, primarily in the works of Judith Butler and Elizabeth Grosz, there is a noticeable tendency to attach a dynamic, relational characteristic to gender, and to observe gender differences in the process of intersecting all other binary differences. In addition, in order to deconstruct sex/gender differences, an increasing emphasis is put on the body as a field for inscribing culturally constructed distinctions. This paper explores the possibility of synthesizing knowledge in the field of postmodern gender theories and postmodern understanding of disability. It examines how gender binarism intersects with binarism ?disability - nondisability,? and whether, at the level of ?disabled? bodies, gender differences become invisible.

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Application to Occupy

The Journal of Public Space ◽

10.5204/jps.v3i1.321 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 103-108

Author(s):

Grace Leone

Keyword(s):

Public Art ◽

Site Condition ◽

Research Partnerships ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Art Installation ◽

Industry Research ◽

Art Program ◽

Art Research ◽

The City ◽

Open Expression

Urban Animators: Living Laboratory (UA:LL) was a public art research project that actively engaged with the RMIT University New Academic Street capital works project, undertaken at the Melbourne city campus from 2015-2017. The construction site and the surrounding campus were envisaged as a living laboratory encouraging research that engaged with the internal infrastructure, process and community of RMIT University.As curator of the UA:LL public art program I created a framework that encouraged collaboration, provocation, solidarity and exchange amongst RMIT University students, staff and alumni. This was achieved through the process of open expression of interests, learning and teaching, invited artists and industry research partnerships all resulting in public artworks embedded in the construction zone. The artistic installations included public artworks on construction hoardings and projections within the constriction zone that positively activated the site condition and helped mitigate the disruption occurring on the campus.As a curator, artist and designer I proposed a spatial curatorial proposition to the city via a public art installation titled ‘Gantry Section D’ as part of the UA:LL program. ‘Gantry Section D’ was the result of an intensive period of practice based investigation into the condition created when a city is undergoing transformation.

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