Exposure of Virgin
The concept of Other comes from Existentialism as opposed to and dependent on the concept of main.
Otherness is often created through a negative and hostile evaluation of specificity because it deviates from and/or threatens a universal norm and therefore must be regulated.
Simone de Beauvoir uses the theoretical framework of existentialism to describe her feminist theory, namely:
1.Women are defined and distinguished by men, but men are not defined and distinguished by women.
2. Women are not born, they are made.
3. The woman internalizes the consciousness of the man (subject) and becomes the woman (other).
I was inspired by CP26 IK incident.
On July 30, 2020, at the COMICUP26 Exhibition (CP26) in Shanghai, a girl wearing a JK uniform appeared in a comic show and made in a slightly revealing pose. Passersby watched and took pictures. Another woman who was filming shouted angrily and asked her to pose seriously and don't discredit JK or woman. The photographer posted this video to the Internet, and then it was widely spread. Interestingly, I found that the incident began with a woman blaming another women. Then, I know the concept of the Other.
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I think that in today's life, images and the media have become powerful tools for others to other women.
Examine, deconstruct and reorganize women through "gaze", for those who threaten a general norm, through management to make the women domesticate or obey.
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When our skin is a readable surface, the pictures in the photos will convey some twisted messages. Our understanding is misinterpreted, and the photos and even the media convey it is not in a real form. So I found a map of 3D character modeling, combined with character models from different peeping angles to fit them together and generate some outlines.
On the mannequin, a symbol of the deformed other was built out of clay and I made draping for this hybrid that symbolizes women in society.
When the deformed other is stripped from the mannequin, the cloth loses its support and forms a huge void and falls down.
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I extracted the fabric pieces made by draping before for collage. Make a handmade collage based on some feminine characteristics. But I realized its immaturity.
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In my opinion, othering women is manifested by examining women. So I found some research and studies on the female gaze. Men prefer to gaze at women's breasts and hips, as well as their waists, bellies and backs.
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Viewing the distinction between the subject and the other created by power.
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger points out that the viewer is given the privilege of "seeing" by power, and establishes his or her subject status through "seeing". While becoming the subject to be observed, the view experiences the power pressure brought by the gaze of the viewer. By internalizing the viewer's values, the view performs self-objectification.
I did an experiment where I spilled ink on my body. Through the effect of ink on the human body, I traced the movement of the eye along the ink.
The gaze appearing when needed as an eye-catching marker, this harm is not transient but ever-present, superficial. It is a stain that stays on the surface of the others (women) yet cannot be removed.Some of prints were made by using images of ink flowing from one's body.
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People always use pink to symbolize women, and fluorescent pink, which is close to blood red, is close to an emotional outburst and a sense of fearful power, which I personally believe is a color exclusive to women who protest against oppression.
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In the end, I designed an experiment on simulated othering. I first asked my friends to take a selfie, and then I took a more objective full body picture of them to represent self-perception and objective existence.
Then I asked several men, none of whom knew any of the women in the picture, to take the picture, edit and "spread" it in a random order according to their understanding of women. And after they edit the picture, I asked for why they did so.
After that I use this set of different spaces and times of their gaze lingering on the pictures to reconstruct a woman on their awareness, i.e., the othered woman.
Finally, I combined all these photos in one, combining "self-perception", "objective existence" and "othered image at the time of transmission", and then after a series of computerized compression and garbled processing, it was input into the eye-tracking device. I asked the other six boys to play the role of secondary oppressors facing the still unaware male gaze of women after the othering of the Internet. And I recorded the data.
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I chose Mary Magdalene as the content of printing, a woman who has long appeared in Christian lore as a prostitute saved by Jesus, both as a saint and as a prostitute, a woman who has been othered. I chose some of her images, skulls, jewels, thorns, crosses, etc. to paint into a print. And I re-did the inking experiment on the first version of the print and scanned it to get a new pattern.
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This was an early project of mine, using eye tracker experiments to track and compare the gaze of other people towards women.
I hope to satirize the otherization of women through the image of the "perfect female other".
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Otherness is often created through a negative and hostile evaluation of specificity because it deviates from and/or threatens a universal norm and therefore must be regulated.
Simone de Beauvoir uses the theoretical framework of existentialism to describe her feminist theory, namely:
1.Women are defined and distinguished by men, but men are not defined and distinguished by women.
2. Women are not born, they are made.
3. The woman internalizes the consciousness of the man (subject) and becomes the woman (other).
I was inspired by CP26 IK incident.
On July 30, 2020, at the COMICUP26 Exhibition (CP26) in Shanghai, a girl wearing a JK uniform appeared in a comic show and made in a slightly revealing pose. Passersby watched and took pictures. Another woman who was filming shouted angrily and asked her to pose seriously and don't discredit JK or woman. The photographer posted this video to the Internet, and then it was widely spread. Interestingly, I found that the incident began with a woman blaming another women. Then, I know the concept of the Other.
I think that in today's life, images and the media have become powerful tools for others to other women.
Examine, deconstruct and reorganize women through "gaze", for those who threaten a general norm, through management to make the women domesticate or obey.
When our skin is a readable surface, the pictures in the photos will convey some twisted messages. Our understanding is misinterpreted, and the photos and even the media convey it is not in a real form. So I found a map of 3D character modeling, combined with character models from different peeping angles to fit them together and generate some outlines.
On the mannequin, a symbol of the deformed other was built out of clay and I made draping for this hybrid that symbolizes women in society.
When the deformed other is stripped from the mannequin, the cloth loses its support and forms a huge void and falls down.
I extracted the fabric pieces made by draping before for collage. Make a handmade collage based on some feminine characteristics. But I realized its immaturity.
In my opinion, othering women is manifested by examining women. So I found some research and studies on the female gaze. Men prefer to gaze at women's breasts and hips, as well as their waists, bellies and backs.
Viewing the distinction between the subject and the other created by power.
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger points out that the viewer is given the privilege of "seeing" by power, and establishes his or her subject status through "seeing". While becoming the subject to be observed, the view experiences the power pressure brought by the gaze of the viewer. By internalizing the viewer's values, the view performs self-objectification.
I did an experiment where I spilled ink on my body. Through the effect of ink on the human body, I traced the movement of the eye along the ink.
The gaze appearing when needed as an eye-catching marker, this harm is not transient but ever-present, superficial. It is a stain that stays on the surface of the others (women) yet cannot be removed.Some of prints were made by using images of ink flowing from one's body.
People always use pink to symbolize women, and fluorescent pink, which is close to blood red, is close to an emotional outburst and a sense of fearful power, which I personally believe is a color exclusive to women who protest against oppression.
In the end, I designed an experiment on simulated othering. I first asked my friends to take a selfie, and then I took a more objective full body picture of them to represent self-perception and objective existence.
Then I asked several men, none of whom knew any of the women in the picture, to take the picture, edit and "spread" it in a random order according to their understanding of women. And after they edit the picture, I asked for why they did so.
After that I use this set of different spaces and times of their gaze lingering on the pictures to reconstruct a woman on their awareness, i.e., the othered woman.
Finally, I combined all these photos in one, combining "self-perception", "objective existence" and "othered image at the time of transmission", and then after a series of computerized compression and garbled processing, it was input into the eye-tracking device. I asked the other six boys to play the role of secondary oppressors facing the still unaware male gaze of women after the othering of the Internet. And I recorded the data.
I chose Mary Magdalene as the content of printing, a woman who has long appeared in Christian lore as a prostitute saved by Jesus, both as a saint and as a prostitute, a woman who has been othered. I chose some of her images, skulls, jewels, thorns, crosses, etc. to paint into a print. And I re-did the inking experiment on the first version of the print and scanned it to get a new pattern.
This was an early project of mine, using eye tracker experiments to track and compare the gaze of other people towards women.
I hope to satirize the otherization of women through the image of the "perfect female other".
