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Shedding Light For The Matter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Barbara Bolt
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This paper critiques enlightenment notions of representation and rehearses an alternative model of mapping that is grounded in performance. Working from her own practice as a landscape painter, Bolt argues that the particular experience of the “glare” of Australian light fractures the nexus between light, form, knowledge, and subjectivity. This rupture prompts a move from shedding light ON the matter to shedding light FOR the matter and suggests an emergent rather than a representational practice.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy , Spring 2000 , pp. 202 - 216
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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