She inches glass to break: conversations between friends

• Main Author: Luscombe, Liang Xia
• Format: Others
• Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2018
• Subjects: Liang Luscombe; intersectional feminism; Ticket of No Return; video; Ulrike Ottinger; Ien Ang; Fine Arts
• Online Access: https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5436; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6541&context=etd

She inches glass to break: conversations between friends is a project that aims to manifest, through research and practice, my own feminist language within the videos I have produced in my final year of my Masters of Fine Arts. My feminist language is Australian and intersectional, invested in combating sexism, racism and in deepening language and representation around sexuality in relation to Asian women. This project discusses my video She inches glass to break (2018) in length, which created intersectional feminist dialogue in response to feminist filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s film Ticket of No Return (1979) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). Additionally, given this project’s investment in language, this body of work is influenced both by aspects of psychoanalysis – in which speech is central to a “therapeutic action” – and by feminist linguistics in which linguistic analysis reveals some of the mechanisms through which language constrains, coerces and represents women, men and non-binary people in oppressive ways.