Erotic Objects, Erogenous Zones: Fetishism and Sexual Difference (1957-1986)

我的项目关注恋物癖和性别差异之间的关系，重点关注英国艺术家Rose English（生于1950年）、波兰艺术家Alina Szapocznikow（1926-1973年）和美国艺术家Hannah Wilke（1940-1993年）的作品。尽管在不同的文化和地理背景下工作，我认为他们对社会政治环境的相似反应，受到加速消费主义，战后文化生产和性革命的影响。通过将他们的作品置于对话中，研究考察了他们与商品文化、情色和景观的艺术接触，开辟了一个关于性欲驱动、性和性别社会建构的新研究领域。矛盾心理、幽默和讽刺的策略将与享乐和消费的政治联系起来。他们共同的艺术兴趣是将身体与日常物品结合起来，将身体表现为商业和性恋物，这加强了他们分组的基础。他们的边界的溶解和模糊的二元，从而分期身体作为一个景观的不确定的性敏感区，也将被考虑。该研究将把这种可变性与艺术家的多学科产出联系起来，整合对素描、绘画、雕塑、舞蹈、表演和视频的分析。这个原创项目将以女权主义和精神分析理论为基础，以独特的视角审视将英格利希、斯扎波兹尼科夫和威尔克联系在一起的拜物教方面。

My project concerns the relationship between fetishism and sexual difference, focused on the work of British artist Rose English (b. 1950), Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973), and American artist Hannah Wilke (1940-1993). Despite working in varying cultural and geographical contexts, I consider their kindred response to the socio-political environment, affected by accelerated consumerism, post-war cultural production, and the sexual revolution. By positioning their work in dialogue, the research examines their artistic engagement with commodity culture, eroticism, and spectacle, opening up a novel field of enquiry regarding libidinal drives, sexuality, and the social construction of gender. Strategies of ambivalence, humour, and irony will be framed in relation to the politics of pleasure and consumption. Their shared artistic interest in merging the corporeal with everyday objects, representing the body as both commercial and sexual fetish object, reinforces the basis of their grouping. Their dissolution of boundaries and blurring of binaries, thereby staging the body as a landscape of indeterminate erogenous zones, will also be considered. The research will relate this mutability to the multidisciplinary output of the artists, integrating an analysis of drawing, painting, and sculpture, alongside dance, performance, and video. By uniquely looking at the aspect of fetishism that connects English, Szapocznikow, and Wilke, this original project will build on recent scholarship informed by feminist and psychoanalytic theories.