Artikel
Making a spectable out of herself : Bobby Baker's "Take a Peek!"
Verfasst von:
Aston, Elaine
in:
London:
2004
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277 - 294 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Aston, Elaine |
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| Jahr: | 2004 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| Drawing on Mary Russo's theorization of "female grotesques", this article analyses "Take a Peek!" - a circus, fairground-styled "freak" show by British performance artist, Bobby Baker. While making a display of or a spectacle out of herself can be argued for all of Baker's work, "Take a Peek!", the third show in her "Daily Life" series, is especially concerned with "woman" on display. The article argues that in "Take a Peek!" Baker turns herself into a "spectacular" demonstration of "failed" feminity in a way that constitutes a site/sight of feminist cirtical "work". The analysis proceeds by detailing the various ways in which Baker realizes her performance through strategies that serve to grotesque the feminine and figure an archaic maternal, the sorceress and the hysteric. In condlusion, Baker's invitation to laugh at the grotesquing of her own body is proposed as a means of empowering those who look, to look differently at the ideas and "ideals" that shape the feminine in contemporary cultural and social systems, and to expose the symbolic feminine for what it truly is - a freak show. | |
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