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The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity (2022)
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Rintoul, J., & Johnson, C. (2022, May). The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity. Paper presented at The Virgin’s Milk in Global Perspective: On the Fluidity of Images and the Politics of Divine Presence, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA

Renaissance depictions of the Nursing Virgin are replete with incongruities and juxtapositions. Her rounded feeding breast is absurdly positioned and shaped in contrast to a flat space where her non-feeding breast should be; She has a dual identity a... Read More about The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity.

What do radical feminist art films look like? Desire and duration in Sam Taylor-Wood’s David (2004) (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Johnson, C. (2010, September). What do radical feminist art films look like? Desire and duration in Sam Taylor-Wood’s David (2004). Paper presented at Radical British Screens, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

British feminist art practice has a rich heritage of radical filmmaking, which has contributed to an understanding of radical feminist practice as subversive and oppositional. Crucial as these strategies are, the grounds upon which they were founded... Read More about What do radical feminist art films look like? Desire and duration in Sam Taylor-Wood’s David (2004).

The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Johnson, C. (2008, May). The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency. Paper presented at Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, Ideas, Budapest, Hungary

This paper explores the idea of the embodied intellectual through notions of contact, impression and affect. Through my reading of Tracey Emin’s short film Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, I consider the relation of criticality to haptic visuality... Read More about The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency.