1. Other gazes: representations of gender violence in contemporary Mexican visual culture (2001-2011)
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Clifford, Emer and Finnegan, Nuala
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Ehical othering ,Otras miradas ,Form and mode ,Alicia Gaspar de Alba ,Chronic pain ,Juxtaposition ,Oral testimony ,Systemic violence ,Photography ,Structural violence ,Lived body ,Femicide ,Pro-social benefit ,Elaine Scarry ,Site of resistance ,Juárez ,Violence against women ,Suicide ,Self-portrait photography ,Counter violent images ,Vicarious trauma ,Auteur film ,Voyeurism ,Entrapment ,Ann Kaplan ,Rodrigo Cruz ,Social exclusion ,Empty empathy ,Tableau photography ,Trauma ,Symbolic violence ,Las desaparecidas ,Music and emotion ,Self-harm ,Social violence ,Yamina del Real ,Artists ,Contemporary Mexican visual culture ,Resilience ,Secondary victimisation ,Feminicide ,Indigenous ,New ways of seeing ,Everydayness ,Strategic essentialism ,Institutional violence ,Barbie dolls ,Social stratification ,Feminicidio ,Rape ,Jean E Jackson ,Corporeality ,Intermedial ,Ethical spectator ,Creative practitioners ,Performance ,Othering ,Guerrero ,Anti-othering ,Nude ,Viewer reception ,The transient body ,Corporeal storytelling ,Nuala Finnegan ,El cuerpo deshabitado ,Ethical visibilización ,Gender-based violence ,Intellectual spectatorship ,Other gazes ,Sexual violence ,Active spectatorship ,Film ,Visual culture ,Ethical spectatorship ,Body dissatisfaction ,Public pedagogy ,Eating disorder ,Witnessing ,Abject ,Representation ,Multimedia ,New ways of looking ,Henry Giroux ,Artivists ,En busca del cuerpo perdido ,Julia Kristeva ,Ethical consumption of violence ,Pain ,Testimonio ,Abjection ,Body in pain ,Transcend trauma ,Counter hyper-violent images ,Modes of witnessing violence ,El cuerpo deshabitado...o En busca del cuerpo perdido ,Justicia por una vida sin violencia ,Scopophilia ,Reciprocal violence ,Intermedia ,Rape culture ,Mexico ,Violencia en contra de las mujeres ,Abriendo escuelas para la equidad ,Liminal ,Lived body experience ,Modes of spectating violence ,Witness ,Symbolic representation of violence ,Maryse Sistach ,Jean Jackson ,Perfume de violetas ,Experimentation with form ,Documentary photography ,Crisis of violence ,Absent body ,Gender violence ,Shoes ,Mia Kirshner ,Crosscurrent ,Ciudad Juárez ,Ethical consumption of images ,The body ,Challenging scopophilia ,Music ,Self-directed violence - Abstract
This doctoral thesis presents a critical analysis of visual responses to gender-based violence in contemporary Mexican culture, with the aim of identifying how new forms of narrative can engender ‘ethical visibilización’ of gender-based violence, through instigating ‘otras miradas’, or other ways and modes of spectating and witnessing violence. Central to this investigation are three individual artworks by three Mexican artists, created at different intervals over a particularly violent ten year period (2001-2011). They are as follows: Maryse Sistach’s neorealist auteur film, Perfume de violetas: nadie te ve (2001); Rodrigo Cruz’s multimedia project, Violencia en contra de las mujeres (2006); and Yamina del Real’s tableau photography exhibition, “El cuerpo deshabitado... o En busca del cuerpo perdido” (2011). This thesis subsequently examines how the visual narratives created by these contemporary artists, counter dominant sensationalistic and hyper-violent representations of gender violence, which otherwise exploit victims and commodify violence. Drawing on Ann E Kaplan’s theory of trauma culture, as well as insights from across a broad range of disciplines, it will be argued how each visual artist independently fashions an active audience through their respective processes of ethical or anti-Othering and incitement of intellectual spectatorship. In so doing, they facilitate a re-imagining, and re-presentation of gender violence in Mexican visual culture, which ultimately forms a wider political narrative of ‘ethical visibilización’ of the processes and consequences of gender violence.
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- 2019