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The Box-Assemblage as Exilic Space

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Buttigieg L.

Społeczeństwo. Edukacja. Język

2018

vol. 7

DOI: 10.19251/sej/2018.7(9)This presentation revolves around my box-assemblage, a three-dimensional body-themed artefact whose iconography is imbued with liturgical as well as profane tropes. I demonstrate how this artefact provides the female model and myself with an exilic space within which we not only re-assess concepts of alterity and subjectivity, but challenge the dominant role of male subjectivity in the western world. Its creation, a collaborative endeavour prompted by our desire to create an exclusive realm where libidinal desires are freed from societal inhibitions, starts off with our encounters in my studio. Parts of the latter’s space are then transferred into the artefact itself, together with our metonymic presences in the form of relics and simulacra of our bodies-in-pieces. The box-assemblage engenders an exilic space within itself, one characterised by liminality and in-betweenness; positioned between the sacred and profane, the tangible and intangible.By correlating her body with the divine, the box-assemblage gives this woman, as an embodiment of what I consider to be the “true other”, a trans-corporeal identity. Rather than controlling the other, the artefact provides an indeterminate space wherein the self encounters the other in a manner that initiates an equitable relationship, unhindered as much as possible by presumptive knowledge. This is aided by the box-assemblage’s underlying esthetics and dynamics which, while encouraging gender fluidity and disengagement from preconceived dogmas-a sort of reverse cognition-also enhances the experience of its deific symbolism. Ultimately, it allows us to speak through our bodies, transforming itself into a meta-narrative of our shared existences.Keywords: alterity, box-assemblage, divinity, exilic, femininity, selfhood, transcendence

The Box-assemblage and Luce Irigaray’s Écriture Feminine

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Buttigieg L.

Społeczeństwo. Edukacja. Język

2019

vol. 8

DOI: 10.19251/sej/2018.8(4.1)AbstractTaking its cue from Luce Irigaray’s écriture feminine, and prompted by a desire to create an exclusive space where libidinal desires are freed from societal inhibitions, Idoia and myself, as model and artist re-spectively, set out to create a particular kind of artefact. This takes the form of a mixed-media, box-assemblage within which lies an indeterminate territory where the self encounters the other through an eq-uitable relationship, unhindered by male-dominated knowledge. With an iconography imbued with liturgi-cal as well as profane tropes, and drawing heavily on Irigaray’s notion of the ‘sensible transcendental,’this structure exploits that which lies beyond female corporeality [Irigaray, 1993, p. 115, 129]. Its aesthetics, while encouraging disengagement from preconceived dogmas and the dissolution of sexual difference, en-hances the experience of its deific symbolism. By correlating her body with the divine, the box-assemblage gives this woman a trans-corporeal identity.Not unlike the enigmatic realm outlined in Iragaray’s La Mystérique, the box-assemblage provides an ideal platform where Idoia expresses her uniqueness, primarily through high-definition simulacra pro-duced from moulds taken directly off her skin; as for myself, my representation takes place primarily through the agency of her otherness [Irigaray, 1985, p. 191- 202].This kind of artefact grants us a space within which we not only re-assess concepts of alterity and selfhood, but challenge the dominant role of male subjectivity. Just as Irigaray’s prose disrupts Jacques Derrida’s phalloegocentrism, the box-assemblage dismisses the traditional status of woman-as-commodity.Keywords: artist, écriture feminine, Irigaray, model, otherness, subjectivity, sensible transcendental

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