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- Title
Uncanny Urges: The Familiar Made Strange.
- Authors
Brown, Adrienne
- Abstract
This fine arts practice based research is centered on examinations of the uncanny. I investigate how photographs and sculpture can operate as uncanny or fetishistic stand-ins for the body, which is always absent although a primary referent for my work. I am interested in Surrealist strategies of the uncanny and the fetish, and how these strategies create psychologically compelling images and objects. I perceive the uncanny in my work as the familiar made strange through eccentric juxtapositions of every day materials, objects and images. Through a diverse range of artists including Pat Brassington, Sarah Lucas, Louise Bourgeois and Mike Kelly I have explored key strategies of the uncanny to locate my own practice. I also draw theoretically from the work of Sigmund Freud, Nicholas Royle, Julia Kristeva and W.D. Winnicott. Methods of play are utilised to examine the possibility of an uncanny aesthetic through a process of bricolage whereby photographs and sculptural forms are constructed from available everyday materials.
- Subjects
SURREALIST artists; BRASSINGTON, Pat; BOURGEOIS, Louise, 1911-2010; ARTS management; ROYLE, Nicholas
- Publication
International Journal of Arts Theory & History, 2015, Vol 9, Issue 3/4, p14
- ISSN
2326-9952
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18848/2326-9952/cgp/v09i3-4/36272