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Artist Statement:
A CURRENT BODY OF WORK IS
TITLED: (re)scripting a
performative ‘self’ in a
theatre of domiciled
experience and everyday life
Luce Irigaray (1985:
136)wrote, “How to master
those devilries, those moving
phantoms of the unconscious,
when a long history has taught
you to seek out and desire
only clarity, the clear
perception of fixed ideas?
Perhaps this is the time to
stress technique again?...A
detour into strategy, tactics,
practice is called for, at
least as long as it takes to
gain vision, self-knowledge,
self-possession, even in one’s
own decentredness”. My work
addresses these issues and
explores the meaning and value
of female domestic experience
and is concerned with how that
experience is translated into
art practice. Importance is
placed on the notion of
‘everyday’ and suggests that
stories emanating from within
the home have great
significance: socially,
politically and culturally.
Academic interest in
contemporary performance
theory and a long standing
personal interest in the works
of Antonin Artaud have merged
to theoretically inform my
research.
My work has never been a
deliberate visual illustration
of ‘cruelty’ or in its essence
considered ‘abject art.’ It
has evolved however, as a
manifestation of abject
experience. In ...
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