Fatality Of Femininity: The Femme Fatale And The Fallen Woman
By Megan Shaw.
If Helen of Troy, the face that launched one thousand ships, was the original femme fatale, then Lady Lilith embodied a devious and equally dangerous sexuality. The demise of men at the female hand of beauty, sexuality and undeniable distraction was a well-established concept before the turn of the 19th Century…
Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists In The Diaspora
By Kate Harris.
Within Māori and Pacific dress cultures, clothes have pivotal political and social roles, and continually evolve within new contexts. The Pacific Sisters are a collective of New Zealand Pacific and Māori artists whose creative practice is both unabashedly traditional and boldly modern…
The Theatricality Of The Everyday: A Question Of Absorption In Contemporary Photography
By Annie Curtis
In the interest of portraying the utmost naturalism, immersion has long been employed by artists to suggest the unique quality of ‘being-in-the-world’ that defines our very existence. Indeed Heidegger explains his conception of ‘dasein,’ or human beings, as inseparable from the sphere in which they live, permanently ‘in pursuit’ of meaning rather than simply ‘being present’ as mere ‘entities’ or objects…
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