«Lay it into the open wounds». Art at war in Maria Kulikovska's performative sculpture
Journal
Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell'estetico
ISSN
2035-8466
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
Abstract
The paper addresses the work of Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska, who resorts to military equipment as artistic materials and to destruction as an artistic method. In the first section, I contextualize Kulikovska's performative sculpture within art history, claiming that it can be regarded as Destruction Art. In the second section, I turn to Catherine Malabou's concept of "destructive plasticity" as a philosophical tool of an aesthetics of war, which offers a sound theoretical framework to further understand the implications of Kulikovska's artistic activity. In the third section, I focus on the main material adopted by Kulikovska, ballistic soap, showing how the artist materially deconstructs inherited dichotomies that keep informing our understanding of wars. By considering the artistic practice of a feminist artist (M. Kulikovska) through the lens of feminist scholarship (K. Stiles, C. Malabou, J. Butler), the paper investigates the relations between war and the arts from a situated perspective.
Language
English (United States)
Keywords
plasticity
feminist art
Catherine Malabou
sculpture
performance
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Firenze University Press
Number
16/2
Start page
55
End page
66
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