Contextualizing the Developing Self in Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum

Imogen Racz

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44085-5_7

Contextualizing the Developing Self in Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum

Imogen Racz

FAH School of Art and Design

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Abstract

This chapter discusses Helen Chadwick’s autobiographical work Ego Geometria Sum (1982-84) in relation to her reading of Arthur Koestler’s books The Sleepwalkers and Ghost in the Machine, the development and final display of the work, and its artistic and theoretical contexts. The chapter considers how Chadwick united universal ideas with subjective memories, and, in line with postmodernism, destabilised post-Enlightenment notions of self. The installation incorporated ten, emotionally significant objects that represented key stages in her development, onto which she developed photographic collages that conflated past with present, and depicted her performative, adult body engaging with these memory-objects. The development and significance of these and her sophisticated use of visual languages are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Art and Dance in Dialogue
Subtitle of host publication	Body, Space, Object
Editors	Imogen Racz, Sarah Whatley, Marie-Louise Crawley, Katerina Paramara
Publisher	Palgrave
Pages	105-124
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-44085-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-44084-8, 978-3-030-44087-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44085-5_7
Publication status	Published - 8 Nov 2020

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Keywords

Helen Chadwick
Ego Geometria Sum
Koestler
Mathematics
Memory
Identity
Objects
Sculpture
Photography

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