Woman-as-Appliance : Martha Rosler, transfigurations, and domestic space
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
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- 67731794
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
- Brief description of type
- Multi-component
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- Month
- May
- Year
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- The work presented here centres upon Davis’ co-editorship of a double issue of Third Text – the international journal for the critical analysis of contemporary art. In preparing Trans-figurations: Transnational Perspectives on Domestic Spaces (Vol. 29, No. 4-5, 2015), Davis and co-editor, Basia Sliwinska, worked with nine female scholars to assemble a diverse, but carefully curated collection of articles exploring transnational perspectives on women's post-1945 art. The articles address ‘trans-figurations’ as different forms of thinking about gender and materiality through versatile articulations of place. The research process began with two events co-convened by the editors in 2014. The first, at the conference of the Association of Art Historians, examined ‘home’ as a variously charged site in a session entitled ‘There's no place like home? Women-in-passage: “Home” and migrations in women's art since 1945′. The association of ‘home’ with gendered locations, the politics of domesticity and ideologies of nationhood and citizenship was developed further with the second event, ‘Trans-Figurations: Feminism, Art and Global Futures’, held at the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester. As well as leading the editorial project (and co-authoring the journal introduction), Davis focuses upon the work of American artist Martha Rosler, which she also extends through a lengthy bi-lingual catalogue essay (prepared for ‘Woeful Weapons’, an exhibition contrasting the work of Josep Renau and Martha Rosler at Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2015). In her journal article, Davis situates Rosler’s work alongside critical questions of feminism, the home and migrations. She advances the figure of ‘woman-as-appliance’, as the megamachine of domestic labour (cf. Lewis Mumford) and as ‘cyborgic transfiguration’ (cf. McKenzie Wark and Donna Haraway). The latter resonates strongly through Davis’ catalogue essay, which offers an important retrospective reading of Rosler, particularly her key work on Vietnam in the 1960s and Iraq in the last decade.
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