„Completely dotty“? Zur visuellen Umsetzung von nicht-normativen psychischen Zuständen in Elisa Macellaris Kusama (2020)

Friday, May 31 2024
11:00 AM
Venue: Kollegienhaus, KH 1.013

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with Salon-Ticket – free admission!

Lecture by Barbara M. Eggert (Linz)

The Japanese exceptional artist Yayoi Kusama revolutionized the international art world in the 1960s and 1970s, starting from New York. She became known primarily for her obsessive use of dots, the polka dots. In 1973, Kusama returned to Japan and voluntarily admitted herself to an open psychiatric ward in Tokyo in 1975. From there, she has been pursuing her artistic endeavors, which have served as both a form of expression and a way to cope with anxiety since her childhood. The contribution explores how Elisa Macellaris crafts the graphic biography as a homage to Yayoi Kusama's artistic work while simultaneously highlighting the parallel existence of (mental) experiential worlds in a non-hierarchical manner. The focus is particularly on the dots and circular shapes and their formal and narrative significance.

Moderation: Clemens Heydenreich

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