Kristensen, J C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2855-8746 (2025) Dynamite Hidden Under The Peachy Skin. [Video]

Video (MP4) (A short film exploring the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou) 49913 KRISTENSEN_Dynamite_Hidden_Under_The_Peachy_Skin_(Video)_2025.mp4 - Published Version Restricted to Registered users only Download (487MB) | Request a copy

Abstract

In The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Philosophy, the philosopher Catherine Malabou presents a model of being and identity where, following an experience of trauma, a person is non-continuous to their pre-traumatic self, writing "Destruction has its own sculpting tools".

Dynamite Hidden Under The Peachy Skin is a short moving image piece which takes a phrase from Malabou’s book, and explores its material reality, through the repeated looping of an exploding peach, cut through with excerpts of the philosopher’s writing on identity, trauma, and metamorphosis. The work’s soundtrack is a melancholic live performance of Miley Cyrus’s We Can’t Stop by Bastille.

This work was exhibited in the group show Reflecting Change: Reflecting on the Past to Change the Future at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, in January and February 2025.

This work began its life as a short moving image piece offered at the end of a talk of the same name, given as part of the Royal College of Art's The Urgency of the Arts Lecture Series in December 2020 during a pandemic lockdown. This talk circled around questions of embodiment and being in the age of a global pandemic, drawing on Malabou's work to speculate on where we were and where we were heading, focussing specifically on questions of being in relation to our new material realities.

Item Type:	Video
Additional Information:	This work is part of a larger project called The Coral Notes
Uncontrolled Keywords:	moving image, artwork, Catherine Malabou, philosophy, visual culture, identity, trauma, destruction, dyanmite, peaches
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Related URLs:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49909
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2025 16:09
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49913

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