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

这本博士将通过档案材料、触觉对象和美学来研究社会实践的类型，从而接近“艺术”和“身份”。为了探讨这个伦理问题，我将转向20世纪末以来对性别的艺术表现的具体例子，以对抗政治和精神分析的归属概念。通过这样做，我将在过去和现在之间开辟一个更具可比性的领域，允许我们了解社会形成和归属变形的错综复杂的历史。在采用埃尔斯佩斯·普罗宾的定义时，我打算探索视觉材料对那些在社会上被拒绝承认的人考虑性别、性取向和身份认同的不同方式。我的定义是，归属感表达了一种超越现实的渴望，一种让皮肤延伸到个人需求和欲望之外的渴望。当视觉上被拒绝承认时，属于或找到归属是什么？归属感与社会位置、身份认同和情感依恋、权利和地位、伦理和政治有关。个人如何通过艺术自由的模式来协商这种代理的丧失？

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?