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CIRCA Art Magazine

Fascinating new ‘letter’ by Singapore-based Nurul Kaiyisah, in which she juxtaposes a former Ireland and a current South-east Asia. Part of the ‘Travelling South, in Theory’ series commission by Brian Curtin. circaartmagazine.net?p=20639

CIRCA Art Magazine

One of the Circa texts Nurul Kaiyisah targets, re “the lacuna of women in art histories,” is that of Anne Carlisle on Vivien Burnside back in 1984 (circaartmagazine.net/issues/is); quite robust by Anne Carlisle!

Screengrab from Anne Carlisle’s review of Vivien Burnside show at Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, May 1984. Text snippet reads: “was evident in the cut outs. Enforcing the tendency to read the work as a painting installation, these ‘cut outs’ showed the female nude in various poses, her body arranged in ways designed to best display it to the viewer; in the convention of nude painting the hypothetical viewer is of course male. Cast in the traditional role, cheerfully vacant, faceless, women lolled, crouched and stretched around the walls of the gallery in a cute, submissive kind of way. This tradition of depicting woman as a thing, or an abstraction, is so deeply embedded in our culture that it still structures the consciousness of many women and they do to themselves what men do to them. Like men they ‘survey’”
Apr 11, 2025, 04:06 PM·Public·Web
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