This article was originally given as a paper at the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) annual conference in 2013, as part of a session co-chaired by the author and Kate Robertson, entitled “Consumption and Interdiction”. The theme of the 2013 conference was Inter discipline. …

This article was originally given as a paper at the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) annual conference in 2012, Sydney, themed together <> apart. Images shown in the accompanying presentation have been inserted throughout, however I have marked the timing of the different slides below. In…

I. Your Body is a Battleground Kruger was right. Women’s bodies, even today, even more than ever, are not their own.[i] Mulvey was right. The female body is an object, never the subject — the object of the male gaze.[ii] Margaret Atwood was right. The female body is a vessel…