22/12/2013, 20.00h*
* (the time in the poster is not correct)
Programme#20 in Granada.

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– ´The Devil Un-Dressed’: an ongoing visual arts project produced by Tania De Rozario at The Unifiedfield AIR Programme that re-imagines the monstrous feminine in (primarily Eastern) Asian horror films.
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“I’ve always been fascinated with how female horror figures are constructed, and in particular how the construction of the female villain in Asian horror often revolves around tensions between agency and oppression: On one hand, the typical female ghost is an autonomous character who seeks justice on her own terms; on another, agency is only granted in death and in the demonization of her person as villain. Visually and narratively, elements of the “horrific” are also derived from the woman’s failings in traditional gender roles: Virgin, wife, daughter, sister, mother, sex object.

Even in the “Western” archetypes learned as a kid -The Vampire, The Werewolf, The Zombie, The Mummy – in no character was the element of horror so rooted in gender than in the The Witch. While fear of all the other villains was cultivated through a general defiance of the the laws of Life vs. Death and Human vs. Animal, fear of The Witch seemed to be derived precisely from her perversion of traditional femininity: (1) She is not a sex object: By normative standards, she is considered “old” and “ugly” and the opposite of sexually appealing. (2) She is not a homemaker: In fact, she uses tools of domesticity for evil, riding a broomstick and cooking up potions over her stove. (3) She is not a mother: She does not have children, she eats them. Ho ho ho. And of course extensions and variations of how traditional roles of woman/girl have been destroyed in order to create monstrosity is evident in classics such as the Alien trilogy, The Exorcist (which was actually based on the story Roland Doe, who was a boy and not a girl) and Psycho”.

www.taniaderozario.com/blog/page/devils-un-dressed

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BIO

Tania De Rozario is an artist, writer and curator interested in issues of gender and sexuality. Co-founder of EtiquetteSG, she is the author of “Tender Delirium”  (Math Paper Press, 2013) and was  the 2011 winner of the NAC-SPH Golden Point Award for English Poetry. She is currently penning her second full-length book,  “And The Walls Come Crumbling Down”.

Tania is an alumna of Hedgebrook (USA) and Sangam House (India), and is an Associate Artist with The Substation (Singapore), where she is currently working on “Making Trouble”, a research project documenting links between activism and visual arts in post-2000 Singapore. On the side, Tania freelances as an art-writer and art-educator. She teaches at Drawing at The Substation and Contemporary Contextual Studies at LASALLE College of the Arts.

+info: www.taniaderozario.com

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The Unifiedfield experimental art space. Carrera del Darro, 15, 2 dcha. Granada.