Charting a PhD research course which explores the aesthetics of Self and Other, through a non-binary and ambiguous lens. Performance, comics, video and other media engage with reactions to anti-orthodox imagery and identity. Sex, art and being collide here to challenge and critique the persistence of 'normativity' through transgression, subversion, satire and more.
Caveat!
This research page contains material of an explicit and adult nature.
Project title: "Towards an Ontology of Gendered Aesthetics: Surveying Topologies of Self and Other in Performance, Society and Media", Application Number: UOD-DJCAD-2022-0250, signed off and approved by DJCAD School Research Ethics Committee on 5th January 2022.
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Running the Race: Approaches to the Viva
Finding time for a rare post hereabouts whilst taking a break from thinking about the practice-based research, and what may be getting pres...
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Long time no post: much writing and rewriting of the thesis, and production of practical works (and performances) have held me back from po...
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Note: Having resisted (upon supervisor request) the usual impulse to write at length about recent artworks created for this project, what fo...
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Sometimes, simply reading an essay or text can provoke an entire essay of thoughts and observations in response - and during the weekend...






