ART(I)CULATIONS OF VIOLENCE

Current issue

VOL 3, NO 2 (2017)

This special issue is based on the 2017 South Australian Postgraduate and ECR Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Studies conference: Art(i)culations of Violence: Gender, sex, sexuality and the politics of injury and revivification. Papers in this issue explore the multitude of ways that violence occurs, be it institutional, personal, epistemic, discursive, cultural, economic, symbolic, and/or/as physical. In line with Stuart Hall’s theory of articulation, ‘Art(i)culations’ indicates not only acts of articulating, pronounciation and enunciation, but also physical formations, motions and movements, including but exceeding intellectual, political and artistic movements.

Editorial

By embassy In Ar(ti)culations of violence

To speak and/as connect

—beyond the silencing of violence, and the violence that is silence

Section 1

January 21, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Challenging Repression

Exploring the violences of censorship and self-censorship through visual art practice

January 20, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

“Those were the bad old days”

Challenging straight histories of anti-queer violence

January 19, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Symbolic acts and reactions to violence in the name of patriotism

Selected excerpts from the creative artefact, Fair Day.

January 18, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

With no cock

This performance poem is an embodied response to a lover who enacted an insidious kind of interpersonal and anti-queer violence...

January 17, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Duck

Duck seeks to provide an explication of the emotional violences that can be committed to oneself through memory, and the apprehension of future dangers born of anxiety.

January 16, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

The gender reveal party

As a transgender woman and writer, I find a lot of opportunities to get frustrated. “The Gender Reveal Party” was written out of frustration.

January 15, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

mMyth is is

mMyth is is is an experimental poetic work in the traditions of écriture féminineor writing from, with and through the body.

Remember you are there you live here a home changes”

—Cee Devlin, 'Begin; now go deeper'

Section 2

January 14, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Altered Visions

a triptych on hyper-femininity, violence, vulnerability and shame

January 13, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Explaining ‘stealthing’

and the conversation about rape that we need to have

January 12, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

“My name is Max”

Critiquing the toxic masculine in Mad Max: Fury Road

January 11, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

The Davitt Awards

Have they wounded the masculinity of Australian crime fiction?

January 10, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Writing the (raped) body

These pieces, presented as a poetic tryptic, explore the écriture feminineand écriture tatouagesapproaches to creative writing

January 9, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Raped in the centre

This is an autobiographical poem sequence about being raped in the Northern Territory.

January 8, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Queer/sex worker

examines the manifold articulations of violence facing queer sex workers

—Shawna Marks, 'Explaining "stealthing"'

Section 3

January 7, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Lady Cassandra

In this synthesized dystopia home-grown bacteria are generated to create coded bodyscapes, suggestive of future communication technologies.

January 6, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Towards bodily autonomy for everyone

An interdisciplinary conversation concerning bodily autonomy, bodily modification, intersex rights, transgender rights and circumcision.

January 5, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

The violence of the myth of the tortured artist

How does the myth of the tortured artist both stereotype ‘the mentally ill’ while obscuring the way ‘the mentally ill’ are tortured?

January 4, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

When my body spoke out of turn

I’m going to tell you a story. A story that is not theoretical or sealed or written in my tongue—it is carried in baggage I cannot simply pass over.

January 3, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Remembering my lithium body

This poem bears witness to re-membered experiences of being on (and getting off) the drug Lithium Carbonate.

January 2, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Leaving my body

Alison’s work explores the personal dysfunctionality surrounding the relationship with her body from the age of four, until today—age forty.

January 1, 2017 in Ar(ti)culations of violence

Begin; now go deeper

Selecting part of a Roland Barthes quote provided, my self-reflexive writings spilled forth from this fragmented provocation, exploring the synthesis between bodies...