캐런 핀리의 여성 육체에 대한 저항적 재현에 관한 연구 = Karen Finley´s Resistance against Conventional Representation on Female Body

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Materialist feminists have tried to represent women with their own critical ideology on women in representational frame, reforming and developing the aesthetics of cultural feminist performance. What materialist feminists have felt interested in is to change the conventional power dynamics in the male gaze on female body and to destroy the traditional signifying codes imposed on female body. Karen Finley is one of the most active and controversial materialist feminists, who fully devote themselves to the mission of dismantling the male-centered cultural environment. Finely has degraded and humiliated herself and her own body on stage in order to destroy typical male desire which male spectators want to fulfil gazing women represented through various visual forms. Frustrating the male expectations for scopophilia on female body, Finley provokes male spectators to shout out and throw their cigarettes to her.
The main goal of this paper is to examine Karen Finley's resistant strategy of representing female body on stage, studying cases of her performances where she actually practiced her ideas and beliefs in performance pieces. This paper also researches how female body has been traditionally represented and handles specific cases where Karen Finley derides and throughly destroys the conventional cultural ideology on representing women. Besides theoretical approach to Finley's performance aesthetics, this study is to examine practical cases and performance modes with which Finley has actually manipulate her male spectators to give up their dirty desire on female body in representational frame.