The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice

Abstract

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Permindar Kaur: Locating a ‘Black’ Artist in Narratives of British Art in the 1990s

“…Stallabrass attributed the interest in these themes to Sigmund Freud's 1919 essay, 'The Uncanny', in which the psychiatrist discussed 'that class of the frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar'. 76 As Alexandra Kokoli has eruditely narrated, 77 the collision of the domestic and the uncanny in the work of women artists has a rich tradition and, although Kaur does not profess to any particular interest in Freud's essay, 78 her work certainly explores the unsettled emotions caused by defamiliarized domestic forms.…”

Uncompromising Female Aesthetic Subjectivity

“…In The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, Kokoli points out how Sue Rowley suggests a 'nuanced flexible and open-ended conceptual framework' is necessary for appreciating feminist practice in its full political potential as opposed to a form of confession or art therapy.' 162 Kokoli raises a crucial point, on how female artists not only are compromised in history but as soon as a door opens for acknowledgement they have been misunderstood, and this necessitates a change in reading through a sociopolitical or philosophical lens, and we should refute a confessional entity reading of female artists' work.…”