This book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation by fe/male artists in scenes of love and sexuality.
Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents various methodologies and research directions to create diverse perspectives on the selected art works. This book combines historical outlines based on art history, visual culture studies, new methodologies in theatre studies, and digressions into sociology. Philosophical readings complement the resulting multiple perspective, in which figures of thought such as transimmanence, performativity theory, and mind–body dualism prove of particular interest. This research brings to the fore networks of sedimented and entangled histories and their role in shaping our ways of seeing for the past 500 years.
Iris Julian is a cultural scientist, author, and university lecturer who holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Academy of Fine arts Vienna, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies. In 2019, she joined the research group ‘Media and Participation’, based at the University of Konstanz, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Zurich University of the Arts, and the University of Hamburg; currently, she is teaching art history at the University of Graz.