Nan Goldin
Greer and Robert on the bed, NYC 1982
© courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Jay Jopling, London

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Performance, Gender and Identity
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	Session 1: Introduction to the Themes of the Day
	Session 2: Women Artists, Pain and Self-Portraiture
	Session 3: Artist's Presentation
	Session 4: You Cannot Be Serious!: Gender Performance and Queer Authenticity
	Session 5: Wigs of Wonderment: Performing Race and Gender in the work of moti roti
	Session 6: Baby Butches and Reluctant Lolitas: Performances of Adolescence

Session 2: Women Artists, Pain and Self-Portraiture

Speaker: Kathy Battista, writer and lecturer

Kathy Battista explores how women artists have used pain (both physical and emotional) as a medium. She considers three historical moments: Frida Kahlo’s works from the 1940s including Without Hope, 1945, Tree of Hope, Keep Firm, 1946, and The Broken Column, 1944; feminist artists Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence’s work from the late 1980s and early 1990s including Intra Venus (Wilke) 1993 and Narratives of Dis-ease (Spence) 1989; and Tracey Emin’s work from the late 1990s. The presentation draws on the theoretical work of writers such as Judith Butler, Elaine Scarry and Susan Sontag.
 

Session 2 Webcasts:

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Suggested Further Reading

• Susan Sontag, Regarding The Pain of Others, Penguin, 2004
• Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain, Oxford University Press, 1985