Poem Brut #61 – Estate
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The acronyms in the images (paintings) I sent you are all of organisations that have some form of control over us: Property companies (Estate), state surveillance (Look Out), government ministries (Office) and big banks (Bank).
In the 61st edition of The Poem Brut series, new poetry by Tony Rickaby.
Thoughts on a Queer Gaze
If “male gaze” as defined in Laura Mulvey’s seminal essay, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, objectifies women as stereotypes for heterosexual male viewers, and the “female gaze” responds to this by subverting the object and positioning women as viewers, then both stem from social power buried with the act of looking–who sees and who is seen. In theory, a queer gaze would deconstruct such gender-based power dynamics, changing not only the object but also the intent of the male and female gaze. Ideally, a queer gaze would create a world completely free from binary notions of desire and storytelling, creating space for plural identities and possibilities.
By Molly Moss.