Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.25595/2049
Author(s)
Angerer, Marie-Luise
Journal Title
FKW : Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year of publication
2014
Issue number
55
Page reference
26–37
Language
deutsch
Abstract
Starting with the Fly, Yoko Ono’s video from the early 1970s, this article compares a feminist reading of the 1970s/80s with a performative, new materialist reading as developed since the 1990s. Whereas feminist art and media theories center on psychoanalytical concepts such as the gaze and the disavowal of the female/maternal body, new feminist materialism takes the body – the one represented in the image and in the viewer’s body – as concrete, material co-processors provoking and stimulating a desire in motion. Whereas the 1970s understood the image as a chain of signification (and real women not fitting the concept of the WOMAN), the new reading goes beyond any semantic-linguistic interpretation. Today, a “philosophy of feeling” (Susanne Langer) focussing on movement, materiality, touch and sensation, meets the old anxieties of the 1970s where woman, body, feelings came along with nature – and nature was the pure opposite of the male logos ruling the world, producing knowledge, and governing policy.
Subject
Affekt
Kunst
New Materialism
Video
Kunst
New Materialism
Video
Publication type
Zeitschriftenartikel
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