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Leigh
Bowery’s game of embarrassment and release
Nina Papazoglou
Origin: Static Issue 01
Content: PDF
“Using your emotional experiences in order
to create an art object is perhaps a way to represent the world.
It adds to the odyssey of the exploration on what we like and
what we don’t like, by trying to answer the question: why?
In the case of Leigh Bowery, an artist known mainly for his aesthetic
modifications of the body there exists in his work an intensive
personal enquiry and art-making on embarrassment. This text refers
to the manner in which he experimented and addressed this emotional
concept that the artist seems to approach like a game of embarrassment
and release or a playful, personal and rather cruel enquiry; a
game that rests on the thrill of an elegant and esoteric violence.
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Contributor:
Nina Papazoglou's (1978) academic life started
with studies on European and International Politics (BA University
Macedonia, Thessalonica). A field which she further explored with
an MA in International Politics (Universite Libre de Bruxelles,
Brussels), coming to the conclusion that this discipline itself
could not answer the questions that had accumulated in her mind.
The study of culture and criticism seemed more appropriate. Her
new project at the London Consortium focused on the notion of
the performative, the public and the private, whether this is
related to art or other activities that exist to aesthetisize
our existance through the medium of the body.Therefore, her current
research topic is on the art of Leigh Bowery where exploring a
work that lacks a narrative and for many years, a placement in
the establishment of high art, yet might be found to be culturally
important if not influential. She is also interested in photography
and the live arts and is currently working on the archiving of
the ICA audiovisual aquisition.
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