Lisa Birke
ART Habens derrogatory( odd, considering these words are still symbols of power and thus not really degrading.) Women are much more readily associated with the animal kingdom— again that pesky Nature! So my intention was to reveal this language use in a purely visual form. In“ House Bunny” it is not the female domestic that is the house bunny as we would expect from the title. Instead, our subject has been surprised and rendered offbalance while washing the dishes by a giant kitsch ceramic bunny visible in the window— a literal House Bunny intruding on her space. We often don’ t see these subtle power dynamics at play in our language systems— or maybe we don’ t want to see them— like the big bunny in the window or the elephant in the room.
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