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SOMETHING TO BE SCARED OF is the title of the second chapter of Julia Kristeva’s ‘Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection’ (1982), which considers the relationship between fear and language. Fear precedes text, Kristeva writes, it is ‘proto-writing’, but is also the name given to expression that cannot be interpreted or sensibly codified in adult, proper, masculine language. SOMETHING 3 BE SCARED OF is situated in the spaces between texts, bodies, desire, and fear. Keogh’s film skims over the interior of a dilapidated starship: various textures and surfaces glisten in the light of the camera as it’s lone inhabitant struggles to locate himself in time. The movement of zippers in Noonan-Ganley’s video work traces exposure and seclusion arising from the dresses and homoerotic drawings of the couturier Charles James. Stupart's 16mm film and performance refigures ecological disaster as traumatic event; sited on the skins of melting polar ice caps.
Artist(s): Noonan-Ganley J, Stupart L, Keogh S
Publication type: Exhibition
Publication status: Published
Year: 2018
Number of Pieces: 1
Venue: No-w-here
Location: London
Media of Output: Video installation
URL: http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=1&subCat=docdetail&&id=496
