Using poetic performance, Swingler shows how dead white women in Nocturnal Animals are haunted by colonial and extractivist violence.
Jenny Swingler
Jenny Swingler is an artist-researcher. Her creative critical practice uses live performance, video and hybrid essays to encounter/counter how visual images make worlds. Her practice engages with creative geography, intersectional feminism and media materialism—specifically how performance can question and critique the framing of bodies and landscapes in the Western visual canon as white world-making. She recently completed a practice-based PhD, ‘An Ecology of Images: Verbal Performance and Spectral Violence’. Funded by the AHRC, her research investigates how images of the white dead female body are entwined with empire. She argues that such images are not only evidence of an imperial imaginary but, as material objects, are entwined with the violence of extractivism and racial capitalism.
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