Quarantine Zone: FMP Progress - 27/03/2020
Today I researched the Contempary Gat Identity, with a specific focus on labels that are linked to tropes and stereotypes both associated with the gay Community and inside the Gay Community.
Artist Spotlight: Cassils & Eleanor Antin
The Canadian Artist Cassils’ uses their own body as their canvas, examining and critiquing concept of gender, and its limitations. In the work named ‘Time-lapse’, Cassils undergoes extreme physical change, as they work through a muscle building transformation. This transformation is documented a collage of 25 images, showing the start, middle and end of the transformation. There are four of these collages, one for the front, one for the back, and one for each side. The inspiration for this piece came from another artist; Eleanor Antin. More specifically, Antin’s piece ‘Carving: A traditional Sculpture’, which shows the progression of Antins body as she crash dieted for 45 days to reach “a point of aesthetic satisfaction’’, demonstrating the extremes of body image, and how unnatural what society deems to be ‘good’ can be. Cassils’ work however, focus’ on the gender based boundaries, as they build and shape their body to a masculine ideal, the antethsis of Antin’s work. The simple bla...
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