CULTURE EXCHANGE - Female Resilience and Bodily Playgrounds (INGRID BERTHON-MOINE)

Guest artist INGRID BERTHON-MOINE

joins Elizabeth Fullerton for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

Ingrid and Elizabeth discuss the absurdity of male domination within cultural identity via film maker Virginie Despentes' novel 'Kong Kong Theory' published in French in 2006 and English 2010. A mix of memoir, autobiographical essay and manifesto, Despentes shapes outrage and resilience alike, as she introduces her own experience of being gang raped. The novel pitches capitalist patriarchy as the true villian; exploiting both men and women, forcing us into rigidly codified, disempowering roles and behaviours that serve the unending cycle of global capitalism.

The conversation sharpens with painful, frustrated outrage and bubbles with giggles around the flop, juice, willy and boobies of genitalia. Ingrid describes her strongly feminist art practice that includes men as she probes ideas around masculinity including her 'I Lack it, I Like it' is instagram project in response to the stupidity of Freud's concept of penis envy.

INGRID BERTHON-MOINE

ingridberthonmoine.com

instagram ingridberthonmoine

instragram lackitlikeit

EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

'Hand-Held' 2021 co-curated with Holly Stevenson

'Lack It , Like It' ongoing on instagram

'You Tear Us' 2018 solo exhibition at Kelder Projects

'Looking at a Lack of Perspective' 2017

BOOKS, AUTHORS & FURTHER READING

Byung-Chul Han 'The Disappearance of Rituals'

Camille Froidevaux-Metterie

Camille Paglia

Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'Herland'

Grace Jones

Hettie Judah

Eileen Miles

Etel Adnam 

Holly Stevenson

Judy Chicago

Maggie Nelson 'The Argonauts'

Ocean Vuong 'On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous'

Paul B Preciado 'Testo Junkie'

Sitt Marie Rose

Ursula K Le Guin

Virginie Despentes 'King Kong Theory'

ARTISTS & EXHIBITIONS - mentioned and admired -

Barbara Walker

'Georgia O'Keefe' Centre Pompidou, Paris

'Life Between Islands' Tate Britain

'Magnus Plessen' White Cube

Marcia Michael

'Nicola Tyson' Sadie Coles

'On Hannah Arendt' Richard Saltoun Gallery

Wilma Woolf 'Domestic'

ARTS ORGANISATIONS

Goldsmiths

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award