Object-Appendage
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2010
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Melbourne Authors
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School of Art, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music
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Berners, S. (2010). Object-Appendage. Masters Research thesis, School of Art, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne.
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© 2010 Sarah Berners
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Object-Appendage is an investigation into the relationship between corporeal fragmentation and prosthesis. The project aims to conceptualise my primary medium of 'soft sculpture' in terms of prosthesis and to explore the tenuous relationships between subject and object which manifest within my photographic works. Fantasies of the 'body in parts', amputation and prosthesis, in conjunction with the dynamics of desire and disgust associated with these particular reconfigurations of the body are analysed in depth. In short, Object-Appendage explores permutations between flesh and fabric, focusing on the ambiguity of these perverse couplings.
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fetishism, body in pieces