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Slash As Queer Utopia, Ika Willis
Slash As Queer Utopia, Ika Willis
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In Text, John Mowitt writes that textuality can be understood “in terms of the interplay between what takes place within a cultural production… and what, as yet, has no place within the social”. In this paper I will be trying to tease out the complicated topography produced by this interplay between what takes place and what has no place, in its specific relation to the utopic and queer spaces produced by slash fan fiction. I argue that Mowitt’s understanding of the text allows us to interrogate and to reframe the relationship between textuality and historical/social context (often metaphorized as ‘situatedness’, …
Dreams Of Utopia: An Exhibition By Gadens' Artist In Residence, Madeleine T. Kelly
Dreams Of Utopia: An Exhibition By Gadens' Artist In Residence, Madeleine T. Kelly
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
These works explore recurrent themes of energy consumption, processing nature, human folly and progress. Collage methods are used to construct lyrical scenes that suggest alternative realities, where juxtaposed and absent elements create spaces for projection and gaps to be filled. Figures interacting and processing abstract material shapes evoke mythological realms.