Emin is screaming: Empathy as affirmative engagement in Tracey Emin's Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1988)

Johnson, C. (2010) Emin is screaming: Empathy as affirmative engagement in Tracey Emin's Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1988). Parallax, 16 (3). pp. 96-104. ISSN 1353-4645

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2010.486676

Abstract

This article explores the concept of empathy as an affirmative feminist engagement with Tracey Emin’s short film Homage to Edvard Munch and All My Dead Children (1998). I consider the ‘work’ that art does in terms of empathic possibility asking why the film triggers this response and what this means for empathy research as an extension of the cross-disciplinary turn towards affect. I argue for empathy as the ethical negotiation of differences made possible by the affirmation of ‘what-is’. In particular, I focus on the status of the scream, which retains an ambiguous relation to what Barbara Bolt has called the ‘regime’ of representation (2004) yet remains a crucial aspect of the experience of Emin’s film.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:empathy, affirmation, Tracey Emin, temporality, Edvard Munch
Faculty/Department:~Pre-2010 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Creative Arts > School of Creative Arts > Department of Art and Design
ID Code:10594
Deposited By: G. Brown
Deposited On:28 Jul 2010 09:21
Last Modified:23 May 2013 06:35

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