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Little Do They Know (2022)

Olivia Rowland
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This exposition functions as both a visual and poetic essay, and a manifesto for my methodology of ‘line’. My definition of ‘line’, defined here as: ‘The gestural and abstracting tandem force of drawing-and-writing as a narrative means to express selfhood.’ The exposition posits the methodology of ‘line’ as one alternate artistic means to artistically communicate feminine selfhood. The methodology of line works to resist the internalised assignment of feminine voice to a corporeal body. Instead, ‘line’ communicates selfhood through poetic means and a sense of fragmented corporeality. Visually, the stark and abstracting nature of the drawn line, and the allegorical, metaphorical nature of writing present an abstracted self that playfully evades full understanding. The titling phrase ‘Little Do They Know’ intones a kind of secret power on behalf of the speaker, and the presence of secret and intricate worlds to which the gaze of the spectator has limited access. It is on this premise which the exposition operates, articulating the presence (in all its anxiety, instability, rage, joy and frustration) of a playful and evasive selfhood that reclaims agency from the spectator’s gaze.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsart, artwork, drawing, poetry, play, miscommunication, visual art, anxiety, identity, experimental writing, the gaze, Writing as artistic research, disruption, uncertainty, Playing
date28/10/2022
published28/10/2022
last modified28/10/2022
statuspublished
copyrightOlivia Rowland, 2021
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1120903/1120904
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1120903
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue27. 27


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