Moira Lovell
The Image as a Template for Posing
Summary
My research takes a practice-led focus on the consumptive and productive cycle of a specific body of prosumer imagery and its impact on both offline and online relationships to the body. This project offers a new consideration of the systems of exchange bound up within this form of image making and how it produces ‘occasions’ for self[ie]-portraiture. Through my art practice, online prosumer images become vehicles for the study of present and ubiquitous modes of digital image making practices and how these intersect with new modes of subjectivity, representation, self-performance and the staging of everyday life.
Additional info
The broad aim of my enquiry is to determine how women construct, and are constructed by, the image, based on the possibilities suggested by present and everyday modes of digital image making. The image as a template for posing offers a new contribution to contemporary thinking about prosumer ‘self-portraiture’ at the intersections of subjectivity, gender studies and performativity.
