Patricia Piccinini (b. 1965) - Leo, 2006
'I am as interested in the emotional outcomes of such transformations as I am in the conceptual or ethical. Sometimes I worry that my work isn’t ‘cool’ enough; it is warm, cute, emotive, melodramatic even. Nowhere is this more evident than in my drawings...These drawings explore one of the central themes of my practice; our relationship with the things that we create, in this case my helper creatures. There is a combination of innocence, trust and vulnerability in the children that I find quite apposite as a way to express our relationship with much of the new technologies that now impact on our world and our bodies. I love the way that they seem to get on so well together, but it also worries me a little.'
Patricia Piccinini (from Nature's Little Helpers)
Reading:
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism - Elizabeth Grosz
Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures - Elizabeth Grosz
Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely - Elizabeth Grosz
Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies - Elizabeth Grosz
Viewing:
The Fly (1986) - d. David Cronenberg
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism - Elizabeth Grosz
Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory and Futures - Elizabeth Grosz
Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely - Elizabeth Grosz
Space, Time and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies - Elizabeth Grosz
Viewing:
The Fly (1986) - d. David Cronenberg
