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A Call To Arms: Re-colonisation of The Feminine, Bodyscape, Technology and the Spirit.
This project hopes to highlight the notion of yearning for identity by reviewing the relationship of the 'self' and 'other' (women) to the female body. Through her work she hopes to reconcile feminine 'maternal time' (motherhood) with linear patriarchal time (political, historical).
The female body can be seen to function as a symbolic form that signifies gender, race and perhaps even social class. Traditional, representations of the female body have been coded in terms of a decisive split between the mind and body, between the material and the spiritual, as well as a political opposition between male and female; between dominance and subservience. A tradition in which Man is representationaly aligned with mind, and Woman is aligned with body.
The act of casting women's body parts is not merely a material process but is also a spiritual performance that requires an opening and expansion of the self to meet with the 'other'. In this process of feminine disembodiment, parts of her form are being removed, displaced and disconnected from the original body. The whole being becomes fragmented and transformed in space until only the external shell exists, hollow, empty, inviting the construction of new meaning. Ultimately the process is a search for the personal, physical and cultural space where the essence of self can reside, whole and complete, within modern western society.
"A Call To Arms: Re-colonisation of The Feminine Bodyscape, Technology and the Spirit" - exhibition at the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, March - April 2005 .
