On belonging, identity and affect: artistic representations of gender in late 20th century.

这个博士将接近“艺术”和“身份”作为通过档案材料，触觉对象和美学调查的社会实践类型。为了探讨这一伦理问题，我将转向20世纪世纪后期艺术表现性别的具体例子，以对抗政治和精神分析的归属观念。这样做，我将在过去和现在之间开辟一个更大的可比性领域，允许社会形成和归属感变形的复杂历史。在Elspeth Probyn的定义中，“归属感表达了一种超越自我的欲望，一种渴望使皮肤超越个人需求和欲望的渴望”，我打算探索视觉材料考虑性别，性和身份的不同方式，对于那些在社会中被拒绝承认的人。当视觉上被拒绝承认时，归属感或找到归属感是什么？归属感与社会位置、身份认同和情感依恋、权利和地位、道德和政治有关。个人如何通过艺术自由的模式来谈判这种代理权的丧失？

This PhD will approach 'art' and 'identity' as types of social praxis investigated through archival material, tactile objects and aesthetics. To explore this ethical question, I will turn to specific examples of artistic representations of gender from the late 20th century to confront political and psychoanalytic notions of belonging. In doing this, I will open up a field of greater comparability between the past and present, allowing for an intricate history of society's formation and deformation of belonging. In taking Elspeth Probyn's definition that 'belonging expresses a desire for more than what is, a yearning to make skin stretch beyond individual needs and wants' , I intend to explore the different ways that visual material has considered gender, sexuality and identity for those who have been denied recognition in society. What is it to belong, or to find belonging, when denied recognition visually? Belonging relates to social locations; identifications and emotional attachments; entitlement and status; ethics and politics. How do individuals negotiate this loss of agency through modes of artistic freedom?