An Inquiry into the Theory of the Matrix: Subjectivity, Gaze, and Desire in Kristina Inčiūraitė’s Video the Meeting (2012)

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Diana Romanskaitė
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Summary This article deals with the Matrix theory of subjectivity, gaze, and desire by feminist scholar Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger. Matrixial framework is explored in comparison to Lacanian psychoanalysis. The essay denotes the differences between split Lacanian model of the subject and Matrixial subjectivity based on plurality and continuity. I argue that Lacanian model which grounds the subject in fundamental lack and loss of corporal reality is insufficient for explaining specifically feminine experience in terms of temporality and collective memory, whereas the Matrix theory provides a conceptual apparatus for positive female identification and alliances between the past and the present. Ettinger’s Matrixial model is applied in the analysis of the 2012 video The Meeting by contemporary Lithuanian artist Kristina Inčiūraitė. I claim that the mode of desire in The Meeting is based on Matrixial gaze, which allows to formulate memory as co-created by two partners who share archaic knowledge of the Real, grounded in common relation to female sexual difference and intrauterine condition. Therefore, the article interprets the imagery of the town of Svetlogorsk in the video as coemerged mental images that affect each of the partners. I conclude that the Matrix theory overcomes the phallocentrism of classical psychoanalysis, allowing to reformulate the subject in terms of connectivity, compassion, and abilities to process Other’s trauma through positive cultural change.
矩阵理论探究:克里斯蒂娜Inčiūraitė视频《会议》(2012)中的主体性、凝视与欲望
本文探讨了女性主义学者Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger关于主体性、凝视和欲望的矩阵理论。我们将母体框架与拉康精神分析作比较。本文指出了拉康分裂的主体模式与基于多元性和连续性的矩阵主体性模式的区别。我认为,拉康的模型将主体建立在肉体现实的根本缺乏和丧失之上,这不足以解释在时间性和集体记忆方面具体的女性经验,而矩阵理论为积极的女性认同和过去与现在之间的联盟提供了一个概念工具。艾丁格的矩阵模型被用于分析2012年立陶宛当代艺术家Kristina Inčiūraitė的视频《会议》。我认为,《会面》中的欲望模式是基于母体凝视,它允许将记忆形成为两个伴侣共同创造的,这两个伴侣分享了关于真实的古老知识,并以女性性别差异和宫内条件的共同关系为基础。因此,文章将视频中Svetlogorsk镇的图像解释为影响每个伙伴的共同出现的心理图像。我的结论是,矩阵理论克服了古典精神分析的生殖器中心主义,允许在连接、同情和通过积极的文化变革处理他人创伤的能力方面重新制定主体。
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Art History and Criticism
Art History and Criticism Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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