Chicana Ways - Aletta

AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003)
Andrea Gutenberg (University
of Cologne, Germany)
"Know that I do not
suffer, unlike you..."
- Visual and Verbal
Codings of Pain in Body
and Performance Art"
http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/anybody/articles.htm (2 van 7)31-3-2005 18:21:39
Canada, Denmark and the
Czech Republic.
Andrea Gutenberg
teaches English
literature at the
University of Cologne and
is currently working on a
research project on
English modernism and the
degeneration debate. She
has written a PhD thesis
on possible worlds theory
and female-centered plot
patterns in the British
novel and is preparing
her habilitation on
narcissism as a
scientific and
poetological concept (c.
1850-1950).
emotional and interactive way
as only live theatre can do.
I wanted to explore how to
get under the skin of the
infertile subject, represent
different cultural and sexualchoice
perspectives and bring
the bio-ethical debate on A.R.
T. into a theatrical space,
emotionally and deliberately
in-conclusively."
"This paper sets out to
analyse the status of pain
and its visual and verbal
representations in body art
with regard to gender
difference. Apart from
potentially gender-related
intertextual/ intermedial
references to cultural codes
such as religion (Christian
iconography, sacrifice,
rituals of initiation),
references to pathological
spectacles such as hysteria
and cultural practices such
as cosmetic surgery, the
analysis will include:
subject-object relations
during the performance
itself, the scenarios of
narcissism and voyeurism
implied by it, genderspecific
forms of painprocessing
and programmatic
statements or manifestoes
formulated by the artists
themselves."