<p>🔎 Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of a single sentence in Chris Kraus' book I Love Dick, simply stating that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want...</p><p></p><p>📙 This book is a ride through the literary world of the 1990s from the perspective of "the wife of"; it's an exploration of visual art through the perspective of obscurity, complexity and weirdness, and a classic and transgressive exploration of authorship.<br /><br />We discuss:</p><ul><li>I Love Dick (duuuuh)</li><li>artistic freedom</li><li>creative liberation</li><li>female creativity</li><li>the complexities of feminism</li><li>the work of Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke</li><li>Authorship and its twist through auto-fiction</li><li>artistic exposure invisibility, and obscurity</li><li>authorship</li><li>critique versus experience<br /><p>Read Joana's essays: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://joanaprneves.substack.com/" target="_blank">https://joanaprneves.substack.com/</a>.<br />To know more about our guests and our ideas → ⁠SIGN UP TO THE EXHIBITIONISTAS FILES.<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/e" target="_blank">https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/e</a><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUhydmxQdFpSNmVSOEpIR3pHbG5BRG5xOW41QXxBQ3Jtc0ttazdKc3A5bnkxSlJvVmtSeHN3SUFGSFhhbG9UdldpenZyRjk5N0VZNXdGSmlfUXJXaWJVUDNpaTZzQi1USzVWNGZpQzFjaVJGMmUtOHMtbEZtTGlMNVJJVnRxYmtiYlFmaXFfQUQxbnJxMWpCVEZESQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fjoanaprneves.substack.com%2Fs%2Fexhibitionistas&amp;v=QGDqOgavKAg" target="_blank">...</a></p></li><li>you can become a member and support us.</li></ul><p>Small donations are great! "Buys us a book": <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista" target="_blank">https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista</a><br /><br />Takeaways</p><ul><li>the great literary work of Chris Kraus</li><li>the female condition and the role of the artist</li><li>layers of feminism</li><li>critical prejudice against feminist art</li><li>the economy of artistic exclusion</li><li>aesthetic experience of desire</li><li>desire as a fiction device</li><li>sex, lust and adultery in postmodernism</li><li>sex in art</li></ul><p></p><p>00:00 Intro: On creative freedom and obscurity</p><p>02:51 A feminist sensation: "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus </p><p>09:47 Dick, Sylvère... and Chris</p><p>15:12 The Structure of the Book</p><p>23:29 The Triangle of Obscurity</p><p>26:05 Exposure of Self or Obscurity of the Muse?</p><p>30:53 Transgression as Sexlessness</p><p>41:04 Economic Obscurity</p><p>47:21 Sex, Desire, and Visibility</p><p>54:26 Art, Identity, and Obscurity</p><p>55:44 The Life and Legacy of Hannah Wilke</p><p>01:09:39 Art Monsters</p><p>01:17:56 Outro</p>