Spectatorship The Gaze Part 1 Looking more than

Spectatorship & The Gaze Part 1

Looking – more than one agent • Looking is linked to knowing • Now – looking is linked to other senses such as hearing, touching • Often involves a technology • • Mirror Screen Page Billboard 2

Fernando Mastrangelo Dubai Design Week Used hand-dyed sand powered glass to create three mirrors: • Aurora – pays homage to sunsets • Marina – impact of waterways and steel • Sahara – references sun and climate 3

Looking Involves: • Cultural • National • Institutional contexts • World Views influence what we understand Adel Alabbasi 4

The Lady in Abaya • Simple half-body portrait of a woman wearing an abaya on her head • The face is designed that you see both a face, and if you look closely, a fetus • This represents fertility and continuity of life Adel Alabbasi 5

Rosie the Riveter 6

Spectator The subject position of the individual who looks • The spectator’s gaze is through a relationship between the subject who looks and people, institutions, and objects in the world • The Objects we contemplate may be described as the source of The Gaze • A Gaze is a Sustained Look 7

There is an Arabic saying that refers to people who are proud as those walking, carrying a feather on their head. That’s because in order to balance the feather, one must keep one’s head held high. “In this painting, ‘The Lady in Abaya’ doesn’t just carry a feather on her head but a whole peacock with full plumage, ” says Adel, “which symbolises self pride (in a positive way) and confidence. She walks with her head held high. ” 8