Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood Moscovitch Keren
Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood Moscovitch Keren Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its…
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Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood Moscovitch Keren
Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art focuses on practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions. She explores the work of Leigh Ledare, Genesis P-Orridge, Ellen Jong, Barbara DeGenevieve, Joseph Maida and Lorraine O'Grady, who, through their radical practices, engage in such consciousness shifting in elegant, surprising, and provocative ways. Using psychoanalysis and object-oriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch focuses on the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology.Moscovitch suggests that intimacy has played an under-appreciated role in the shifting of social and political consciousness.
Guided by the feminist psychoanalytic canon of Julia Kristeva throughout, as well as being informed by the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and the critical